Winning and Judging

If you've won a challenge - Congratulations!  You've got a HUGE job ahead of you but hopefully it'll be well worth the exposure you're going to receive.

Your winning treasury will be announced on Tuesday at noon eastern on the blog.

** The first thing that you need to do is choose your Inspiration Item and send a link to AdyaInternational (this team Captain) by Sunday or latest by Monday noon.  Your item must be in compliance with Etsy's TOS and Dos and Don'ts.

 Some hints on choosing your item (not required, just some suggestions) -
* Check out etsy's merchandising desk for the current month.
www.etsy.com/storque/search/title/merchandising-desk/
If you choose an item that might fit into the themes admin is looking for, we could make it to the Front Page (FP).
* Choose an item that you can duplicate.  For true One of a Kind items, the winner will choose a new Inspiration Item if it sells. If the winner has handmade items and can duplicate the Inspiration Item, we ask that you raise the quantity or "renew sold" should it sell mid-challenge.

Your item will be announced and the new challenge begins on the following day ie. Tuesday through the challenge ie till Thursday. You also get Friday and Saturday of the same week to asses and ascertain your winning treasury.

**Please be sure to read the guidelines so you'll choose a winner that's followed them properly - unlimited entries per person+ included the correct tag and link to the blog + your item in first 12 spots + in on time + included 3 LMF member items + followed the blog
http://lmf-team.blogspot.com/p/treasury-challenge.html

Also, the shop of the winner that you choose MUST be in compliance with etsy's TOS and Dos and Don'ts.  Just a few things to watch for... vintage and commercial supplies in the correct categories, definitely no-resellers (listing commercial items as handmade by them), no trademark infringers (hello kitty, disney, etc), no linking to outside websites to purchase, no tag/title/location stuffing,

Winners of past challenges are eligible to win again.  Captain, Leader and Volunteers of the LMF are eligible to win.

You might want to keep up with the judging throughout the challenge to make your job easier.  Bookmark your favorite treasuries as you go.  When it comes time to narrow it down, make sure that those treasuries follow theLMF guidelines and that the shops of the curators are not in blatant violation of etsy TOS.  If you choose a winner that doesn't meet our guidelines or etsy's, you will be asked to choose another winner. If you're unsure, just ask.

We ask that you also choose five to ten Honorable Mentions and post them on the discussion page anytime after the winner is announced on the blog on Monday at noon.

Please leave comments on the treasuries so that participants know that you're looking.

Please use the current Entry thread to view the challenge treasuries.  Participants are required to leave their links there to win the challenge. Other methods of searching for treasuries have proven unreliable.  The Entry thread will have every challenge eligible to win.

The Challenge ends on Thursday at noon eastern.

Send a link to the winning treasury to AdyaInternational by Monday. Please write up something about your experience and how you went about judging.  We love to hear that!  Send that along too.

The winning treasury will go up on the blog on Tuesday at noon eastern.

After your time judging, please feel free to add your own thoughts.

Thanks!