Delays in the results/payouts are understandable, but the lack of communication is less so. It’d take 2 minutes for someone to check the status of the contest and just say ‘hey no ones managing this contest at the moment so it’ll probably be a few weeks’ or whatever the situation is.
Even if it takes 5 hours to chase up what’s going on with this contest, that seems tiny in comparison to the hours put in by all the entrants combined.
Epic is getting free spec work which promotes their engine, and specifically in this case to their big market of production/tv which brings in the $. I’ll think twice about these contests next time if they can’t get it sorted out soon.
Shouldn’t be a big ordeal for them to pay out a few thousand in prizes. They could even double it up and also pay some to all entrants for having to wait 10 months, without batting an eye.
If it’s some legal issue/complication/delays around the payments just let us know, and it’s all good, we’ll wait longer? But at the moment it’s looking like we’ve been scammed.