GAF has posted news in their site: according to which, GAF has paused the T-Shirt design contest. So it means that users can no longer submit new entries.
Why was this competition put on hold?
GAF has stated a concerning reason for this decision.
The main culprits to blame are some spammers who were submitting spam entries in this contest.
GAF had a separate section in their helpdesk where we could submit our entries for this contest: unfortunately, some spammers got information about this contest and they spammed this submission form.
I guess the spammers submitted hundreds of spam entries in this contest and that is why GAF have stated that they are finding it difficult to distinguish/real/legit entries. The reason is obvious: the real/legit entries are buried under a load of lot of spam entries.
I am feeling very uncomfortable as now GAF may think twice before opening another contest. This will effect many people who were looking forward to win the T-shirt contest or were looking to see more contests.
Anyway, if you were designing a T-shirt for GAF then do not get disappointed: keep working on your design as GAF has stated that they will re-open the contest once they create a gallery of the legit entries. Because of the fake entries, it may take some time for GAF to build up the gallery.
Let’s hope to see this contest re-open soon.
