I agree with your point here. Checking how your environment is and studying what is likely to thrive there is important when choosing a career. If this is ignored it might be the reason behind a determent in thriving.
And Hey, the Hive zealy campaign is still on and running, you can still contest to win prices, it all depends on your resilience to work hard and contest for the prices. How the prices will be distributed is already announced as well.