Penalty points for blogs posted past the due date?

I for example, tried to send the final project before the extended deadline. I had a problem with publishing it before the deadline. First, I had a problem the saved draft, option which I used to save a partial version of the blog. At a moment, after I used this option, entering again in editing mode I noticed that the version displayed by the platform was one from two days ago. Fortunately, I kept a copy in Word format on my computer. But I still needed some time to insert the missing text and also to re-insert the missing pictures.

When I finished the blog, I used again save draft button and after that, I pressed Publish button. I wasn't sure that the blog was published but I said I will check it in the morning. I didn't want to push Publish again as, when I did this for a previous blog, I ended up with three copies of the blog included in a queue where blogs must wait to be validated by the moderator.

In the morning I saw that the blog was not published and I pressed again the Publish option. The blog finally got published but after the deadline.  I am not expecting to get any of the promised prizes as I also missed the deadlines for the last blogs, just wanted to raise the problems I faced yesterday late in the night. The board I received for the contest and on which I was learning and developing the project is already a prize for me.  

I also want to mention that I have problems in finding the blogs under work (saved as drafts). Normally I try to get to them through Profile, My content. There I find the published blogs but not the draft ones (in the old platform they were accessible in the same place). No link, and no way to see and access them in order to continue with their editing. And then, at some point (I didn't figure out when and why), an icon appears in the upper left of the screen indicating that I have one or more unpublished blogs. Am I missing something? Are there any docs that describe how this can be done?

I am going through everyone's blogs this morning for a meeting with the sponsor this afternoon. If you were having problems posting them, then I feel it is on me to find out why, I don't feel you should be penalized for that. 

I am going through everyone's blogs this morning for a meeting with the sponsor this afternoon. If you were having problems posting them, then I feel it is on me to find out why, I don't feel you should be penalized for that.