I do work as a Grafik Designer and I took a few days out of my normal schedule to participate in a Design Competition for a Logo for the student Union.
There are 2 phases in the comp where in the first round 3 winners will be chosen and given feedback to their design for those 3 to compete in the second round.
The winner gets 1000€ and the other two chosen ones get 250€.
Long story short: I actually got through to round 2 but now I am hesitating actually finishing it because I thought about how utterly unfair this stuff is.
Instead of taking 1.5k€ and paying a Grafik designer for a professional logo they let 40+ people put HOURS of work in to with a high chance of not getting payed at all.
Am I the only one thinking this is simply not right?