Challenge Rules

General rules for participating in SyntForge challenges. Any specific challenge may have additional terms — these are listed on the challenge page. ## 1. Challenge types - **Daily** — a short 3-day cycle, the winner is determined by audience voting. - **Standard** — top 3 by jury score plus a separate "Audience Favorite" award based on likes. - **Pro** — jury scoring only, no public voting (for more serious categories). ## 2. How to participate 1. Open the challenge page and click "Participate" 2. Read and accept the specific challenge's rules 3. Upload your work via the upload wizard 4. A moderator reviews the submission — once approved, the work is published and enters the challenge Each author may submit only one work per challenge. ## 3. Blind jury Until voting ends, the jury only sees the media, title, and tags of a work — not the author's name. This removes bias from scoring. ## 4. Audience voting - One vote for the whole challenge (not per work) — per account - You can only vote for someone else's work - The account must be older than 48 hours OR have at least one published work - Audience voting is not available for Pro challenges These measures guard against vote manipulation by bots or new fake accounts. ## 5. Results and prizes - Until the challenge ends, the entry list and votes are hidden (see Blind Review) — this protects against collusion - Results determined by the system are final; disqualification is possible if violations are found, even after winners are announced - Prize types and terms are listed on the specific challenge page ## 6. Questions For challenge questions, email **info@syntforge.com**.