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Re-Entering Old Projects In Project14 Contests

The question is pretty simple - Should old projects be eligible for Project14 contests if they have already been entered in previous contests?

Personally I see no reason why not but others may and probably do have different opinions.

If projects are re-entered they may suffer a natural penalty in judgments.

I expect some of the Project14 topics to recur, especially the popular ones, and members may want to tweak their old designs and re-enter.

And some projects may have been entered as a poor fit to a topic, but a more appropriate Project14 topic comes up later.

I realize there is more than one question to answer in the poll, but only one check box, so feel free to add comments.

This poll is really an experiment to see if I can embed this poll in an appropriate place, but the content may be interesting as well.

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  • I ran a contest at the end of last year on Hackster.io and I can tell you, it is very hard to determine what deserves to win and what does not even qualify, this was with a prize worth many thousands of dollars and it was a couple of our own E14 members that ultimately won first and second prizes https://www.hackster.io/contests/IOT2020

     

    I found a few entries that were simply a post of an exact same entry the poster used in a different contest. No effort put in except the time it took to paste in the blog entry again or worst, just link to it. This to me was totally unethical but I had also specified in the rules that the entries were not to have been previous contest winners and if I remember correctly, needed work during the contest period to qualify, there were other rules about using specific products in the project too that helped narrow down the field so perhaps this may be the way to go... introduce an element that would force new and unique entries, maybe the latest raspberry PI / HAT or other vendor product, require planning, schematics to be shared and BOM etc. I ran a qualifying contest first were the hopefuls simply submitted the project idea, these were then narrowed down and the specific products were sent to the selected subset FOC, just like a road test

     

    I think a good prize requires a good effort to be put in specifically for the contest to hand, this does not mean it has to be a brand new project but does inspire the entrant to develop an idea / project to completion and document the progress as they go

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  • I ran a contest at the end of last year on Hackster.io and I can tell you, it is very hard to determine what deserves to win and what does not even qualify, this was with a prize worth many thousands of dollars and it was a couple of our own E14 members that ultimately won first and second prizes https://www.hackster.io/contests/IOT2020

     

    I found a few entries that were simply a post of an exact same entry the poster used in a different contest. No effort put in except the time it took to paste in the blog entry again or worst, just link to it. This to me was totally unethical but I had also specified in the rules that the entries were not to have been previous contest winners and if I remember correctly, needed work during the contest period to qualify, there were other rules about using specific products in the project too that helped narrow down the field so perhaps this may be the way to go... introduce an element that would force new and unique entries, maybe the latest raspberry PI / HAT or other vendor product, require planning, schematics to be shared and BOM etc. I ran a qualifying contest first were the hopefuls simply submitted the project idea, these were then narrowed down and the specific products were sent to the selected subset FOC, just like a road test

     

    I think a good prize requires a good effort to be put in specifically for the contest to hand, this does not mean it has to be a brand new project but does inspire the entrant to develop an idea / project to completion and document the progress as they go

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