It is 500,000 times worse. That is the number of entries they got last time. Since there are not anwywhere near that many webmasters that could and would take part in a contest like that, we can assume that there are hundreds of thousands of duplicate entries generated by black hat searchengine spamming software.
Last time a number of their winning entries had to be disqualified because they were duplicates.
See here:
SEO CONTEST- Terms English
Note how many of the entries have disappeared. Which legitimate webmaster would abandon a website that the searchengines rank so highly? Nobody. These are all spam sites, scrapers, blogspamming, message board spamming, whatever they can do. They even spammed the Forbes blog and got a prize for it and the webmaster who did it posted on
CAP that he got a contract to run websites for them because of it.
Here is the new contest:
CPayscom SEO Contest - New SEO Competition