I responded with a funny made up story. My feed back was there should be judges I thought you knew that and was why you said you need 9 people to judge. 3 judges is fine especially if they are randomly chosen each week.

The like and zap thing doesn’t work especially for people who are in #onlyzap mode (they can’t like notes.)

Another way would be to have all the entries DM’ed to you or the nostr memes account. Then the nostr meme account creates a note with all the meme entries and users can vote by selecting an entry number and submitting it in the comments. This would be similar to how artist critique their peers artwork by pinning up all the artwork from the group without attaching the artist names and getting real hardcore criticism from everyone. Sometimes it can be difficult for people to express their true opinion when knowing to much irrelevant information such as the artist’s name.