Will there be a SeedComp in 2026? Looking back, it looks like the first (planting) round normally finishes at the start of December, which has now passed, and the second (sprouting) round finishes in March.
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2025’s seemed to sort of fizzle out 
There were just three entries in the second round, and I didn’t see any winners declared; ISTR the voting form for that round never appeared.
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Yes, it did seem to fizzle out. I was too busy to participate last year, so I wasn’t really paying attention. I didn’t know that the voting form never appeared. That might explain why I couldn’t find much when I did a search on the forum.
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Yes, it is. Slower getting out the gate this year, but I’ve been in touch with all of the other organizers and we should be up and running very soon. Our first edition didn’t start the first round until December, so we still should be fine as long as we launch before the New Year.
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There’s a link to a voting form (now closed) on the itch page, but I’m not sure if/where the results were announced either.
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Right, but (as I recall) that link, while present throughout the voting period, displayed that same “voting period is now over” message throughout.
(Maybe I should have said something at the time? 
I notice now that it’s the same forms.gle URL as on 2024’s page.)
(I feel particularly bad for the one entry that wasn’t entered in any other jams, Loadstone.)
Anyway. I’m glad to hear that SeedComp ate’nt dead!
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IIRC, we reused the same google form, editing it to work for that year rather than writing a new form from scratch. Once the submission period closed and the form was up, we all were busy and preoccupied and didn’t check back in until the voting period was over.
There isn’t any particularly great way to say this, so I’ll just say it. No one voted. Well, a couple organizer votes, but nothing remotely enough to consider a legitimate vote. Given the very small number of entries and the lackluster year, announcing and running an additional voting period felt like beating a dead horse. So, frankly, if you entered in the 2025 SeedComp, y’all technically tied, depending on how you look at it.
Ultimately, this falls on us, we each individually had too much going on IRL and there was not enough promotion.
That said, I played all three entries and enjoyed all of them and I readily recommend any of the three for anyone curious.
There’s some thoughts on what to do differently this time around and you’ll be hearing more very soon.
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That shouldn’t have been the case. If it was, that wasn’t intentional, although that might explain several things. I had assumed if people had run into a problem voting we’d have heard about it, so the conclusion was an utter lack of engagement, which was plausible at the time, given the low number of new seed and game entries that year.
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