Disclaimer:  I've never entered this contest, but I've always thought 
"someday."

"Overall" and Nimish's "Wow Factor" sound the same to me.  Either one 
would act as a way for a voter to compensate if their general impression 
is different from the average of what they think for the other 
categories.  I think the ability to use that category for such 
compensation means that the final scoring can/should be a simple sum of 
the category scores.


I'd keep voting to entrants and established panelists.  A "people's 
favorite" for anonymous voters can be an honorable mention, but not 1st, 
2nd, 3rd.

I would set it up so that each voter automatically defaults to awarding 
5 points for each category for each submission other than their own. 
Assigned a voting key, voters can change their votes and comments up 
until the deadline, except of course, for their own.


A variation:
There is a baseline of 5 to start with.  Like liquid in a vessel, if a 
voter ranks-up some entries, the baseline is displaced - it goes down 
some fraction of a point.  If the voter ranks-down some entries, the 
baseline goes up.  Un-scored submissions recieve the voter's baseline, 
as limited to the range 0 to 10.

Charles

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