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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Switching to a name-in-a-hat drawing would be a travesty. There are polite ways to say "previous winners aren't eligible" without removing all the competition.
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I actually know of some contests that have this from the get-go, with rules such as these:
- You can only win once. If you do, you're not allowed to enter anymore.
- If you win, you can't enter the next year.
- You can only win 3 times. (One after another, or spread over a larger period of time.) After winning the third time, you get an honorary award, and cannot enter ever again.
Most of them however, are competitions with subjective judgements such as "who made the most beautiful drawing", or "who can play a certain piece of the piano with the best improvisations".
In a running competition where you can actually measure objectively how fast someone is, this wouldn't work, because you know you are excluding someone who's probably (still) the best.