Thread: Costume Winners

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How do you guys determine who wins the costume prizes?

I am thinking about setting up a table with strips of paper and a fishbowl, but I'm worried that not everyone will participate.

Any ideas?

Last year I made a ballot box and ballots with the categories I wanted and instructions to vote by costume description, not the person's name. At midnight we got everyone's attention and told them to go vote. We made a few more announcements before tallying up the ballots. I believe that everyone participated. I will be doing it the same way this year.

I was thinking the same thing, but what would happen if each person voted for themselves... not that it will happen, but it could.

Just make it a rule that you can't vote for yourself. Pretty sure everyone would respect it. Unless your friends are douchebags haha.

We have a ballot box. Everyone votes and our guests are mature enough not to vote for themselves.

As far as I know, only one person voted for themself last year.

I just hand out strips of paper and pencils right about the time we're going to vote. I announce to each group of people that they have to vote for their fave costume and they can't vote for themselves or for me.

I give them about 5 minutes and then collect them & tally the votes. Seems to work fairly well. It's always my favorite part of the night!

We also do ballots. They are pre-printed with the 4 categories: Cheesiest, Sexiest, Best Couple/Group, and Best Overall. We tell everyone to write down a name, if known, otherwise the costume, and please be very specific, since there may be duplicate costumes (especially this year, arrrg!).

Just as a heads-up - a lot of people leave the party right after the winners are announced and the trophies are presented, so don't do it too early. Since our party starts at 8:00 and usually runs until 2:00 or 2:30, we usually have the contest between 11:30 & midnight.

We give everyone a ballot, with the 3 catagories on it. They write the name(or description) of the people they want to vote for on it, and place the ballot in a big pumpkin cookie jar. My roommate reads out the ballots (survivor style), while I tally them up. Then the winners are presented their trophies, and photos are taken.

We also do pre-printed ballots with each category listed and literally walk around handing one to everyone and put the ballot box right in the middle of everything. We are also starting a costume stroll/catwalk this year (an idea we borrowed from this forum ) where everyone introduces themselves and their costume and parades amongst the party goers. Hopefully this will insure everyone votes and knows what name they want to write down.