Would the satisfaction of winning be enough to motivate you to enter a contest, or would you need a prize to drive you to enter? In other words, would you ever enter in a contest with no real prize other than winning?
I need a reason to enter a contest usually. Personally I’d rather something to work for instead of just the satisfaction of winning. A prize would also encourage me to do my best.
Assuming the contest was something I’m interested in and felt like I could do without basically putting forth every ounce of time into it, yeah, I think I’d enter without a prize.
If a contest was something that I felt like it’d take all my free time to do, I probably wouldn’t do it without some form of reward, but frankly I feel as though few contests here are actually like that so it’s not entirely a necessary comparison.
Yeah like I probably wouldn’t join a “make a fully sized prop replica of X item in X time” because that sounds more anxiety inducing. The contest definitely does matter, though I still feel I’d generally join without needing a prize.