That is better decision than opening vacancies again and making users go through tension and you go through stress of selection. Maybe other big signature campaigns can learn this method. Choosing from old applications is good.
There is nothing good about this and I hope that other campaigns will not follow such decisions, but will open sets all the time. The same Hhampuz constantly opens a set of participants if the place is vacant. What tension are you talking about, it seems like every time someone applies, they get so stressed out that they take them to the hospital.

Almost a month and a half has passed since the last submission of applications. During this time, a lot of things have changed in the life of campaigns, some campaigns were closed and some good posters were left without a signature.
It turns out that if all campaigns choose from old applications, then who will accept new ones? If the Gamdom campaign ends, and all the managers, as you write, follow the example of choosing participants from among the old applications, then where will you go? Will you wait only for new campaigns?