How Contests Work - Beginning July 1st, 2010
This page has been updated as of July 1, 2011.
To Enter:
Upload the photo to your profile. For each contest, we will give you a unique tag to add to the photo. One (1) entry per person.
All of the entries will be featured. Only 5 featured photos appear at the top of the photos page, in no particular order. To see all of the entries, click on "view all" located at the bottom right of the featured photos. Here is the direct link to that page: Click here
Voting:
Everyone will have an opportunity to vote. To vote, view all the featured photos at the link above. When you see a cake you want to vote for, click on that picture. Scroll down the page and look underneath the photo. You will see the Favorite button. Click it to vote. Do not vote using the rating stars or by leaving comments. Comments are still welcome, but nasty comments are not.
I will post a time period for voting. After that time period elapses, only the top 10 cakes will remain featured. At that time, the judges will select the winning cakes.
It takes a long time to go through all of the cakes and count votes, so after the top 10 are selected, there will be a few days before the winner will be announced.
Judges:
If you are a judge, you will pick the 1st and 2nd place winners from the top 10. I will let you know the date for voting. If you have plans that day or something comes up, please try to give me enough notice so I can find someone else to fill in. If you change your mind about being a judge, just let me know. It's not a problem.
Judges will email their choices to me. This way, if a cake has the most votes and it doesn't belong there, the previous votes have no effect on the outcome. I don't want to have judges use the same voting system as everyone else, to avoid any problems that could result.
The judges are a panel of professional cake decorators, many of whom have won awards and written books.
Okay, I hope this is clear enough. Now when people ask how to vote, please tell them to come to this page.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Lynne Salmon on
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If you're still looking for judges I'd be available.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Murphy on
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I would be willing to judge also-very cool idea!
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Permalink Reply by Theresa Happe on
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Please email me if interested. I want to keep all judges' identities confidential.
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Permalink Reply by Stampinsher on
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Fantastic! Very clear and easy to understand. Thank you.
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Permalink Reply by Jeanne on
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Silly it had to come to this really, but I don't do contests so it won't effect me at all.
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Permalink Reply by Sherry Qualls on
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Love it Terri!!!
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Permalink Reply by Evelyn Carter on
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I had a very small picture of my Halloween contest cake so I deleted it and put a new larger picture up but I probably lost all of my votes. Any way to fix that?
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Evelyn, the only thing I can do is feature your photo again. I have no way of replacing your votes once you remove your picture.
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I recently submited two cake for the winter holiday cake contest, but neither of them is in the category, I was wondering how to fix this?
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Permalink Reply by Deah on
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*****Just found them and have them entered now. Good Luck!*********
Shannon, when did you submit them and can you describle them for me? I'll take a looks and see what I can find out.
Shannon Murray said:I recently submited two cake for the winter holiday cake contest, but neither of them is in the category, I was wondering how to fix this?
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Permalink Reply by Warren Glasfurd on
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Hi Theresa,
I had made a few entries of my cakes in the Gum Paste Flowers Contest, but can't see any of them among the entries you've displayed... what could be the problem? Could you please check and tell me what i should do?
Thanks
Rowena
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Permalink Reply by Eileen S on
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HI Rowena,
All your cakes you titled for the contest should be in the Featured Photos now. Sorry about that. Many times we just check the newly uploaded photos for contest entries and rely on the members to let us know when they've simply changed the title of a photo. Good luck in the contest! Your cakes are lovely!
Warren Glasfurd said:Hi Theresa,
I had made a few entries of my cakes in the Gum Paste Flowers Contest, but can't see any of them among the entries you've displayed... what could be the problem? Could you please check and tell me what i should do?
Thanks
Rowena
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