For Competitions, Publish is the module where the winner/winners is or are drawn. The module has some parallels with the Carousel Format and works as follows to make sure the selection of winners if random and honest.
To prevent tampering with the selection of candidates, the following Carousel features are disabled:

• Importing post by URL.

• Creating a post manually.

• Deleting/hiding a post.

• Editing or tagging an existing post.

• Moving a post from the right column back to the middle one.

When drawing one or more winners, the following logic is applied (in that order):

• Users can use Views to further narrow down the group of eligible contestants (for example, by setting up a time window). If Views are set-up only posts satisfying the View criteria are considered.

• If a maximum number of N entries per user was specified then from the remaining posts only the first N entries per user are eligible. All others are ignored.

• If one or more correct answers were specified in Build, then from the remaining posts only those with at least one correct answer are eligible. All others are ignored.

• If one or more false answers were specified in Build, then from the remaining posts only those without any false answers are eligible. All others are ignored.

When the draw winner button (the one with the cup in the header of the middle column) is selected, one or more posts are randomly drawn from the set of eligible posts. These posts are shown in a pop-up and the posts are moved to the right column as Unpublished, so that they can be published later on. The publication logic is exactly the same as for regular Carousels.

Winners do not participate in subsequent draws within the same Competition. It is not possible to move posts from the rightmost column back into the middle one.

A competition report in PDF format can be generated with the report button in the header of the rightmost column. This report can be used for administrative or legal matters. In addition, the full/filtered Export Functions of Carousels are available for Competitions as well, so that at the end of a draw all participants and their messages can be archived.