Selecting Manual Winners
You can also pick winners manually if your competition doesn't involve any element of randomness. We built this for judged contests, like photo voting competitions, and for the Game of Skill Competitions we see regularly in Australia.
To pick a winner manually, open the Actions and Entries tab of your competition, find the entry you want, and make that person a winner.
You can still change your mind after picking. Repick, revoke, or archive a winner from the Winners tab. We don't contact winners for you, so nothing reaches them until you reach out yourself.
Here is the full process on video. The manual pick starts at 1:19:
We audit manual winner draws to make sure this feature is used appropriately and not to manipulate results.
Once you've picked, contacting the winner is up to you. See Does Gleam Automatically Notify Winners? for a template email and claim deadlines.
Gleam audits manual winner draws to ensure that this feature is being used appropriately and not to manipulate results.
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Admin / Test Entries
If you are logged in as an admin we will automatically invalidate your own entries before a competition starts, this gives you time to test your entry methods without actually entering the competition.