Yes it does. If you place, then you will receive a prize offer as part of the purse for that competition. In the past, we have been able to award EVERYONE a prize, but going forward, this is simply not possible.
In the future, there will be a greater supply of initial upvotes upon entry becasue our contests will be much more FOCUSED, and PLANNED in advance.
The problem we have currently is that we had an explosion of talent which REQUIRED contests to EXPLORE NEW IDEAS.
Because when MJ comes to play, you MUST dance:

courtesy of yhaluz
I will be sorting through the old posts to gather the winning images, and entering the winners in the accounting books. The work and inspiring is fun but time consuming and not as productive as I need to be currently, hence the delegation necessity.
RE: Steemjet is looking for 4 volunteers to each manage 6000 SP if it is even possible