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When you
enter a skill contest, do they read the entries each day, or wait
till the contest is ended? I am referring to the Boca Burger Contest.
How long does it take to notify you?
Each sponsor,
administrator and/or independent judging agency follows their own
guidelines for the way they handle their contests. There are probably
one of two ways this one in particular is being handled:
1) Entries are read and "pre-qualified"
for the actual judges. In other words, instead of giving the judges
100,000 entries to read, they may narrow it down to 1,000. They
could just do a simple disqualify anyone who didn't follow the rules,
or, they could actually do a pre-judging and try to pick out the
best entries for the judges to judge. Since they would need to get
the entries to the judges by a certain date, I would assume that
they would be reading the entries from the very beginning.
2) It is possible that a certain number of entries
will be randomly chosen to be judged by the judges. In this case,
the entries who are not chosen will never be read and none of the
entries would have been read during the contest.
Since the winners list will be available after
7/28/03, I would assume the winner will be notified before that
date.
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