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The spriting contest just went by and I'm seeing a recurring issue with the prize distribution.

For some background, no information was given to winners on how exactly to claim the prize. Do we just wait for Riako to contact us/hand it out? Is he just busy at the moment?

On my end, it resulted in being bounced around a bit since I first contacted the staff who then directed me to Riako. I waited a day without being contacted by anyone, before asking.

I'm clearly not the only one experiencing this since there's still no shiny Tropius (Oran) onsite. Given that user-made contests state that prizes should be distributed within a week of the contest end date, site-wide contests should be held to the same regard. In the very least, winners should be informed on the proper procedure/delays, since it should be on comtest creators to distribute prizes on time, rather than for winners to chase them.

I hope future contests will have greater transparency. Thanks for reading!

Thank you for your feedback!

I fully get what you mean, and I'm sorry to hear that the prize distribution hadn't been the best experience for you. To clarify right away: The procedure is indeed that the winner should contact me directly via PM as soon as they're ready (i.e. they have an empty spot in their party). If I just sent the shiny right away, some users with a full party would receive a hatched version - which not everyone may want.

Though I agree that we should make this more clear in the future. I'll let the contest team know that it would be best to include this info in the contest description or the winner announcement.

Thank you for the reply! I understand this, and I would suggest that one of the staff contacts the winner such that they know the appropriate procedure. Hope to see more contests in the future!

Bumping on behalf of Meep, who is currently on hiatus.

The first winner of the latest contest posted a feed that they were preparing to hunt their event Pokémon. They didn't know that they were meant to contact Riako in order to claim their prize.

Additionally, in such a short period of time, someone else was able to get the 1st On-Site Shiny, which I feel is a bit unfair to the spriter.