Well there is one flaw in your assumption. Millions is the population of Alberta, but not the amount of people interested in the contest so you can't really use that in your argument. (IE Millions vs hundreds)
Do you really think there would be more than 1000 entries? I feel that's generous, but could be around there.
I get both sides to this argument. I don't really have a side either. But working an assumption from a talent pool of millions is probably very fuzzy math.
I would say there probably wouldn't be an equal number (180 from your example) of quality submissions. Generally in design contests you end up picking from a top 10, 5, or 3. True quality submissions that are weeded out before that? Probably not more than double.
All that said, I'm not entirely against the contest either. Just that, if we're going to compare apples to apples, let's look at the situation as truthfully as we can.
Last edited by Daradon; 07-24-2014 at 06:28 AM.
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