I have an honest question about contest deadlines...
Let say there is a contest FooBar... and to prep the videos for the contest, all of the videos have to be received by April 1st. Internal judging would start April 2nd, so that means that the April 1st deadline would be true deadline, nothing could be pushed back.
would it be better to publish a due date of March 18th (two weeks before the real due date) and just extend the deadline by a week twice... or publish an April 1st deadline and never push things back.
In my experience you always have people who don't finish in time... and just want a few more days... no matter when you set the deadline. The same editors who love the deadline push backs and finish their videos on time because of them would not have finished if the deadline had originally been set to the final one all along. But that also punishes people who edit on time and make it on the original deadline.
and then there is the case of a contest coordinator liking a bit of a buffer to deal with any videos that have issues.











