You're better for asking. Some people have missed the contest in the past. Most of the time, it's because they miss the deadline.
Now and again, a reason is because they initially didn't use the tag, but then edited their post to include it. This causes a couple of things:
- The frontend won't include their article under the appropriate tag after they edit a tag.
- Correcting the tag, however, does include their article in query searches.
Unfortunately, it's just me a @nonsowrites grading the articles. So, we don't have time anymore to search for posts that get dropped though we do find them from time to time.
Even I missed the deadline, but refrained to publish as soon as i realiced that. The tagging issue is not only on your contest, basically all contest deal with it, ask the pizza two tale contest and see how many of the entrys are edited later on, is painfull to look at xD
Maybe you need more hands on the contest? Does POB have any discord server?