thanks! good luck to you too on your desperation attempt! and ya, if you're off the pack that's probably the best chance to get back in it.
do you know if it's only 1 winner? or a few, or small payouts for everyone? I'm not sure if they made that clear.. I can't seem to find the info :/
Im not 100% sure either. But from what I understood there is “winner takes all”. However, it would be nice if they announced more winners such as 1st...$500.00, 2nd...$250.00...
ya, the @steemitboard contest is using some of the prize pool to payout everyone, commensurate to how many you get right. I like that way of doing it.
often I like winner-take-all, but there are so many players that it's kind of bleh, I tend to not like all or nothing when it's super unlikely to win it
granted I did notice they said they will check to make sure you're a real/active Steem user, which is good. so maybe that's their thing, they want it to be top-heavy so that they can manually confirm the prize goes to a real person.
still, I think they could do a top 10 or even top 25 and it wouldn't take too much time to check.
we'll just wait and see I guess hehe, fun contest either way