Losing hope? I guess not since they can still showcase their talents to global community even if they didn't win on the contest. Maybe on that round many choose to rest because some confusion on the theme happened but maybe for this round we can see that many might participate again. The prizes given is still appealing so maybe there are still many talented people will participate and try to get a place to win some amount on this contest. Its a big challenge to compete with those guys who always win in the contest and many participants will do all their best to be called a winner in this round.
true mate, Artists never loses hopes because the more competing it is , the more thrilling and challenging they get.
so this is more to prove them great in their art works.
and also correct since the theme this month is confusing and some did not completely get what is the motive of the recent competition.
but this coming one , Im sure we will see more and more members that will participate.