Hi Michelle,
I am also posting in Golos the Russian branch of Steemit. One guy there had an interesting idea for competitions. He came up with the user @ananymous and publishes all the contest entries under that user. What this does is allowing new authors to compete with those who already have a large following.
It’s great to see all the entries, btw.
I think that's a good idea for the competitions where the most votes wins, but this is being judged by me (this time) and therefore who wrote it won't matter :)