Any time there is even a hint of conflict of interest in any competitive event, be it car racing or OC'ing CPU's, the entire event as well as its purported winners are immediately rewarded with suspicion and presumed guilt by the target audience.
You are old enough and experienced enough to know this Nemesis. Seriously what made you think human psychology would cease to operate when it came to your proposal for an OC event?
If your daughter wins this competition, for legitimate reasons or not, the ONLY outcome will be that the event is viewed as a sham and the competition rigged in advance with the intent to be that your daughter would win.
This is the only outcome that will come from this competition, regardless whether it is true or not, and you should care about this fact in advertising because the court of public opinion is the very judge/jury/executioner that you are wanted to influence with the results of the competition.
Given this, there is zero point to having your daughter enter into the competition, unless the point really is to stack the deck in your kin's favor.
Ask yourself this - have you EVER seen a competition in which the fine print on entry rules did not explicitly prohibit the employees and anyone associated with them (friends and family) from entering the event?
There is a reason for the existence of this fine print on every competitive event. Ignore the reasoning behind this reality at your (and your daughter's) own peril.
You are old enough and experienced enough to know this Nemesis. Seriously what made you think human psychology would cease to operate when it came to your proposal for an OC event?
If your daughter wins this competition, for legitimate reasons or not, the ONLY outcome will be that the event is viewed as a sham and the competition rigged in advance with the intent to be that your daughter would win.
This is the only outcome that will come from this competition, regardless whether it is true or not, and you should care about this fact in advertising because the court of public opinion is the very judge/jury/executioner that you are wanted to influence with the results of the competition.
Given this, there is zero point to having your daughter enter into the competition, unless the point really is to stack the deck in your kin's favor.
Ask yourself this - have you EVER seen a competition in which the fine print on entry rules did not explicitly prohibit the employees and anyone associated with them (friends and family) from entering the event?
There is a reason for the existence of this fine print on every competitive event. Ignore the reasoning behind this reality at your (and your daughter's) own peril.
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