This seems to be making it pretty clear we need more participants in the next contest. There are only three ways of accomplishing this: scheduling, decreasing the kills, and increasing the prizes.
Since the whole idea of this is to get people to clear the port, decreasing the number of kills (any further) seems ill-advised.
Scheduling will be terribly difficult, but we can start by asking if there were any potential competitors who didn't compete because of scheduling, and try to consider them next time. I suggest that once a tempting prize structure is established, the potential competitors should unofficially sign-up to compete, THEN we attempt to establish a time/date and see how many of the competitors can't make it.
That leaves us with increasing the prizes. I am willing to contribute a far greater amount, but I would like that amount to be related to the goal of clearing the port. I suggest we consider a system of awarding the prizes based on the accomplishments of the competitors by the end of the competition.
For example
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Place Silvers/conquest Prize
1st 20,000 (~10 million)
2nd 15,000
3rd 10,000
4th 8,000
5th 6,000
6th 5,000
7th 4,000
8th 3,000
9th 2,000
10th 1,000
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Seems to me like this is getting closer and closer to the team splat wars that are going on these days.
Sandy