I did not mean that, the thing is and what many companies are doing that, they escrow but from participants, there is someone from their team with, experience. Giving him submission and making him win. This happened few times for few companies, while they need just for generating ideas and rest is doing their illustrator. because the hard part is brainstorm and the idea behind logo, if concept is good anyone rebrand it anytime. Hope this one is not the case couse tried pretty hard

Maybe there are companies who do these things, but this doesn't seem to be one of 'em to me. Because, I believe people would still participate to try their luck to win some money if the funds weren't even escrowed, and that would still generate the ideas they might would have been looking for, but they escrowed the funds to make sure that even good designers get to take part in it and they get quality content. At least that is how I see it, and to be honest, we all have worked pretty hard on this thing, for sure.