Though $25usd is considered as poverty level in my country, But I think if the entry fee was the same as last year, we would get some more participants.
Moreover, many people do not know about this pool yet,
For those who have vacant signature space or personal text space, there would have been some publicity If they had added the name of our pool to their vacant space.
By the way, I confirm that #SwordsRex is me.
A lot of us are participating in various signature campaigns and we earn more than this amount in one week. Last time also, the fee was kept at
BTC0.001 (this time it was actually reduced to
BTC0.0004). Personally I thought that last time it was extremely beneficial for the participants. The entry fee constituted just around 20% of the pool, while the remaining 80% came from the sponsors. I haven't seen any other pool here in this forum, which was so lop-sided towards the participants. Given this, I actually expected a 2x increase in the participants for this year's pool.