Contests with public voting in December in Greece: dates and organisers
Two contests in December in Greece have a dated public vote on record, and both closed in earlier years. The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest closed on 10 December 2016, and the Athens Xclusive Designers Week Fashion Design Project ran until Sunday 27 December 2015. No dated source names a Greek contest that opens its public stage in December. Winner dates and entry deadlines are missing from the same sources, so the closing dates are the only dates that can be stated for either one.
Rechecked on 23 October 2026.
Two December votes are on record, and both ended in earlier years
The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest is the clearest December case in the dated material. Its public stage ran on the contest's own website from 16 November to 10 December 2016, and the organiser, Anaptyxiaki Epirou S.A., is named beside the contest. The closing date is the one a reader can match against the organiser's own page, which makes it the most checkable date of the two.
Athens Xclusive Designers Week is the other dated case. The Fashion Design Project ran public voting until Sunday 27 December 2015, and Athens Voice reported that end date. A weekday written beside a calendar date, as here, is the kind of exact closing line worth looking for in any contest's own rules, because it leaves less room for doubt about the last day.
The Vikos-Aoos and Athens Xclusive Designers Week votes both ended in 2015 or 2016, so neither is open for entry in 2026. Those two votes are the only dated public votes in the material, which is why no current Greek contest is named.
- Vikos-Aoos Geopark public vote closed 10 December 2016.
- Athens Xclusive Designers Week vote ran until 27 December 2015.
- Both named December votes ended in earlier years.
- No dated Greek public vote opens in December.
- Athens Voice reported the Fashion Design Project end date.
Window length: how long each named December period ran
The only full window in the dated material runs from 16 November to 10 December 2016. That is just under four weeks, and the vote itself was held electronically on the contest website. A reader who counts the days from the printed start to the printed close gets the same answer.
The Athens Xclusive Designers Week vote has only an end date in the material. Public voting for its Fashion Design Project runs until Sunday 27 December 2015, but no start date is given, so the length of that window cannot be stated. Any figure for it would be a guess, and this page makes none.
A closing date shows when a vote stops, not how long it ran, so a reader who wants the length needs the opening day as well. Where an organiser prints that day, as the Vikos-Aoos contest did for 16 November, the count is simple.
- Vikos-Aoos Geopark window: 16 November to 10 December 2016.
- Athens Xclusive Designers Week window: no start date given.
- A closing date does not show how long voting ran.
- Just under four weeks separates the named start and close.
- The organiser's own page is where to count from.
Winner announcements: no December date is given for either contest
The dated material gives no winner announcement date for either named December contest. The Vikos-Aoos window closed on 10 December 2016, and the Athens Xclusive Designers Week vote ended on 27 December 2015, but a closing date is the last day of voting, not the day winners are named.
A December event with a named date does appear in the material, but it is a draw rather than a public vote. Skai.gr reports that the AADE annual tax lottery draw, held on Tuesday 23 December, produced 12 major winners. It falls outside the public-vote subject because a draw is not a vote, and it is named here only to show how a draw date differs from a closing date.
For the Vikos-Aoos contest the material holds no announcement date, so 10 December 2016 is the latest date on record for it. Any later notice has to come from the organiser itself.
- Closing dates are not winner announcement dates.
- The AADE draw on Tuesday 23 December produced 12 major winners.
- No winner announcement date is shown for either named contest.
- A draw date and a closing date are different events.
- The Vikos-Aoos vote was run on the contest's own website.
Entry lead time: the material gives window dates, not entry dates
Entry opening dates and entry deadlines are separate from the close of a public window, and none of the dated material gives either for a Greek December contest. The Vikos-Aoos window opened on 16 November 2016, but that is the start of voting, and nothing in the material says when entries opened or closed.
A lead time cannot be counted from these dates. A reader who wants to know how early to enter has to read the entry rules of the named contest itself. The Athens Xclusive Designers Week material gives a closing day for its public stage and no entry date at all.
The contest's own entry rules answer the lead time question, and this page can only point to them rather than quote them. Until then, the only firm dates here are voting dates, and voting dates are not entry dates.
- Voting window dates are not entry dates.
- The Vikos-Aoos window opened on 16 November 2016.
- No entry deadline is given for the named December contests.
- Entry timing needs the contest's own rules page.
- The Athens Xclusive Designers Week material gives one closing day.
What the named contests show about online rules and disqualification
The Vikos-Aoos contest ran its online stage on its own website, and that is the only mechanic the dated material describes for a December contest. Where the count takes place tells a reader where the window is printed, and for this contest that was the website itself.
The dated material names no platform disqualification rule, no clause on removed entries and no organiser check on entries for a Greek December contest. The gap is plain: these two contests cannot stand in for any platform's terms, and the material says nothing about which entries an organiser removes.
Scam and fake contest questions are not answered by these dated sources either. A reader can test a contest against what its organiser publishes: a named organiser, a dated window and a stated place for the vote. The Vikos-Aoos contest shows all three, while the Athens Xclusive Designers Week item shows only a name and an end date.
- The dated material names no platform disqualification rule.
- The Vikos-Aoos vote ran on the contest's own website.
- A named organiser and a dated window are the first checks.
- These sources do not answer any scam or fake contest question.
- Platform terms sit outside the material on this page.
Reading the dates: a weekday, a range and a year in each source
The Vikos-Aoos window is written as a range with both ends and the year at the close, 16 November to 10 December 2016. A reader who saw only the end date would miss that the window opened in November, which changes how long the December vote ran.
The Athens Xclusive Designers Week line carries a weekday, Sunday 27 December 2015, and that weekday checks out against the calendar. Dates written with a weekday are easier to verify against the organiser's own page than dates written alone.
The Skai.gr item gives the draw day as Tuesday 23 December with no year in the text, so the year cannot be fixed from the material. A reader should not assume one, and this page does not assume one.
- Vikos-Aoos window: opens 16 November, closes 10 December 2016.
- Sunday 27 December 2015 is a Sunday, so the weekday checks.
- The AADE draw date gives no year in the text.
- A range with both ends shows the full length of a window.
- A weekday beside a date makes the calendar checkable.
Rules that apply
Greek contests whose public voting closes in December are covered on this page, using only the dates each organiser or news report prints. Editorial note: the facts were checked and reviewed on 23 October 2026 against three sources, a Vikos-Aoos Geopark contest page, an Athens Voice report on the Athens Xclusive Designers Week and a Skai.gr report on the AADE tax lottery. The two dated public votes in these sources fall in 2015 and 2016, so no December 2026 contest is confirmed as open, and none is named.
What we decline
No December 2026 vote is named here, because the organiser pages and news reports behind it name none. Winner announcement dates and entry deadlines stay blank for both named contests, since no report gives them. The page does not forecast which Greek contests will run in December 2026 or when their windows open. Which entries and votes count is decided by each organiser under its own rules, and this page cannot change that.
Questions and answers
No Greek contest in the dated sources opens its public stage in December. The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest opened on 16 November 2016, and the Athens Xclusive Designers Week item is dated only by its end, Sunday 27 December 2015.
The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest closed its public vote on 10 December 2016, and the Athens Xclusive Designers Week Fashion Design Project ran until Sunday 27 December 2015. Both windows are in the past, so neither is an open call for 2026 entries.
The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest ran for just under four weeks, from 16 November to 10 December 2016. The Athens Xclusive Designers Week window has an end date but no start date in the dated material, so its length cannot be stated.
The dated material gives no winner announcement date for either December contest. A closing date is only the last day of voting, and no later date is reported for either contest.
No entry opening date or entry deadline is given for either December contest, so no lead time can be stated from these dates. The Vikos-Aoos window covers voting only, so the contest's own entry rules are the one place to check when entries open.
The dated material does not settle legality for any Greek public vote. Its one legal point concerns a state tax draw: Skai.gr reports that the AADE annual tax lottery prizes are free of tax and cannot be seized, which is a point about prizes rather than about votes.