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I am a developer and during the development of a site, which has competitions feature, I chose redCOMPETITION. The component works well, I could create questions and answers and publish to the site and finally draw a winner from among the contestants. And if I need to display some more fields apart from questions and answers there is the redFROM, thanks to their seamless integration. Even I could integrate it with ccNewsletter so that if users participate on a competition then I could let them choose if they wish to subscribe to the newsletters. So far so good BUT here goes why didn't I rated it Excellent

In most of the competitions an user is generally allowed to compete only once. I couldn't find any places neither within redCOMPETITION nor redFORMS to simulate this feature. There is a unique setting on redFORMS fields however I think this is only useful on registration. If I set a field (email for eg.) to unique then publish it within the competition then the result is that users can never again appear on any competitions once they participate for the first time, simply becaue the field is gloablly unique not per competition. So there should be a setting to control a field such that its only unique per competition but not globally. Lack of this feature alone makes this component unsuitable for a production site. I had to hack the component myself to overcome this limitation and the hack was not easy at all.