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Running a competition back to magazine homepage
Introduction | Hyping the lead-up | Limiting the time | Creating prize categories
Choosing great rewards | Certificates | The "Doubler" factor | Creating leaderboards | Team based competitions | Strategic timing | Interstudio competitions
Creating a Hall of Fame | Turning it into a fundraiser
The "Doubler" factor
Your Practice Competition is obviously a special event in its own right, and one 
that's likely to lead to a burst of extra practice. But there's a way to create an additional surge of practice even once the competition is underway.
The idea is to allow students to nominate one week during the competition during which any practice they do will count as double. So if they record a total of three hours during that week, they get credit for six.
Knowing this, they're likely to go beserk practicing during those seven days—although they need to think carefully about just when those seven days should be.
If you want more evenly distributed bursts of activity during the competition, then an alternative is to instead allow students to nominate one day in each week that counts as double. So if the student nominates "Thursdays", whatever happens in the rest of the week, they're likely to get up half an hour earlier each Thursday to start what should be a series of monster practice sessions.