Ah, you may not know this, but this contest, is really not a contest, but merely one of the tools we're using to build a thriving community that welcomes, appreciates, and grow comedic talent.
We just launched #comedyschool last week, and we're getting some new blood on board to help with growing real talents that does actual IRL comedy open mic, and nothing reaches out and get more loyal fans (not the flaky ones who comes one time and go without spreading the word) but participants who are enthusiast who are trying out their hands in comedy, and start paying attentions and admiring pros like yourself
We don't need you to win Dave (though it would be great to see you hit Jester in 2018, we have jester role even in our community Discord). We want you to be part of something great someday, corner of Steemit that make this world a better place, or at the very least, grow a community that helps recognize the rare talent that comes out only once in a while, and help them become sustainable even help them proof their materials before bringing it on stage and the likes
Swing by discord, say hello and get a glimpse behind the scenes of what we're trying to achieve, will be too much to type out here, and God knows' it's surely much more just just a fun all inclusive silly contest with prizes growing as the community supporting it grows along with it ;)
a sideway view of a micro to macro Steem disruption:
How Transform Communities (using Curie as an example) and Curation To Complete With Pay-To-Play Bid-Bot Only Trending
https://steemit.com/curie/@curie/a-call-for-delegation#@dj123/re-curie-a-call-for-delegation-20180417t073327674z
Here is recent COM post was tiny synthetic alpha prototype disguised as a easy competition to instigate genuine curation and creativity (baby steps as we slowly accelerate towards 10,000 active followers, next step will be much more interesting as we release our plans to attracts larger participation consistently and means to measure it):
https://steemit.com/comedyopenmic/@comedyopenmic/you-might-have-a-steemit-account-if
there is alot more....including dev (and all that comes with it including our our DAP someday and then some)....oh yeah, did you know we've launched COMEspanol in the middle of it's 2nd week now, and we've exceeded our target of 30/week entries hitting >50, there are lot of countries that when they get on crypto like Venezeula it will disrupt the violence and cycle of poverty form by financial and political tyranny, also the leaders helping with #comedyschool is going to start funding an orphanage to help his friends in Iraq (I shit you not), come back and see for yourself:
https://steemit.com/comedyschool/@amirtheawesome1/how-to-be-a-good-comedian-part-1-the-basics
You make a really good argument. I will give everything a closer look.
you won't regret plugging into the community once again, you genius and madness belongs with the like of us unstable disruptive folks who think comedy will cause world domination.