I was not involved in the 1000 Idea Emercoin Contest, but wish that it was still running. In my opinion, it's a wonderful idea and it should never really close.
I have sent a small personal donation to starsnshamrocks for his ideas, as they were my favorite. TETRIS is very loved and as EMC has Russian roots, many people will easily make a connection between EMC, TETRIS, and Blockchain. I thought it's a genius promotion idea to involve TETRIS somehow in an EMC promotion in future!
Sponsorship of the XXL tetris on a huge building

Contact these students from the Kiel University in Germany and ask to be a sponsor for their mega sized tetris on a huge building.
Cool. Many thanks Fixx! That is a nice feedback for the offered ideas.
But is the full 5000 EMC price pool being totally payed out?
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The contest judges are picked by the Fund and comments and feedback will be published along with references to the transactions which contained the prizes.
Prizes:
5000 EMC Total prize pool
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The prize pool will be distributed regardless of the number of ideas received. Example: If we receive 10 ideas total then each submitted idea will receive 500 EMC
The 1000 idea contest seems to have been very successful in generating ideas, and I also hope that Fixx will honor what was stipulated in the Contest Description. I know they are very busy working on
http://www.blockchainengine.org/ so perhaps it will just take some time to process all the great ideas.