Contests with public voting in February in Romania: dates and organisers
Four contests in February in Romania with public voting have dates on record. Consorțiul Cultural Corona's Premiile Anului în Cultură awards in Brașov weighted public choices at 50% in 2025. Hotel Transilvania in Alba Iulia ran a Facebook photo contest in February and March 2025, with 10 days to vote. Compari.ro's Magazinul Anului 2025 ran its ballot from February to April 2025. A Romanian tree entered in the European Tree of the Year was voted on from 1 to 28 February 2019.
Rechecked on 22 October 2026.
February contests with public voting follow four different calendars
All four dated examples put February into their dates, yet the rest of each calendar differs. The Brașov awards are described only as running in February 2025 at their tenth edition, and the reports give no closing day for the public choice. The hotel photo contest spans two months, February and March 2025. Photos went up on the Facebook page first, and then the public had 10 days to cast ballots. Compari.ro's store award ran for three months, from February to April 2025. The 2019 tree vote is the only example with both ends of its window printed: 1 to 28 February.
The spread matters more than the month. A reader who sees February in a headline learns where a public count can start and learns little about where it stops. A ten-day window and a three-month store award are not interchangeable, so the closing day has to be read from the contest's own rules, never inferred from the month name.
Some questions stay open. The reports do not show whether the Brașov public choice closed inside February or after it, and the closing day of the hotel contest is not stated either. A reader comparing these dates should treat each open question as open rather than assume that February settles it.
Planning around a February contest starts once the dates are confirmed. A reader who has the closing day can work backwards to the upload deadline, and that exercise is most useful when the rules print each step on its own line rather than in a single sentence.
- Only one of the four examples prints both ends of its window.
- February is the one month all four examples share.
- Ten days of public voting followed a Facebook upload in the hotel contest.
- A three-month window and a window ending 28 February can both sit in February.
- The month name does not settle the closing day, so read the rules for it.
What the organiser decides, and what these examples leave unsaid
The organiser decides how a count is kept, which entries are eligible, and whether a public share is added to any other score. The four examples do not describe how ballots are checked after they are cast, so this page cannot say how a count is verified in any of them. A reader who needs that answer should ask the named organiser, in writing, before entering.
Platform rules form a separate layer. The Alba Iulia photo contest ran on Facebook, and this page does not quote Facebook's promotion terms, so it does not state what those terms require of a contest or of the people who take part in it. The tree vote ran on the contest's own website, and its voting rules are not quoted either. The examples also say nothing about disqualification.
Romanian law sits outside the four examples too. The page does not say whether a February contest in Romania is lawful to enter, which prize rules apply, or how a prize is taxed. Questions about legality, prize tax or eligibility belong with the organiser and with the Romanian authorities, since this page cannot settle them.
A reader worried about a fake contest should check three details: the named organiser, a dated voting window, and a stated share for the public vote. Each of the four examples names its organiser, and all four give some dated period for the vote. A contest that prints none of the three gives a reader nothing to check against.
- The four examples do not describe how ballots are checked after they are cast.
- This page does not quote Facebook's promotion terms or the contest's own voting rules.
- Organisers decide how a count is kept, and their published rules are the reference.
- Legality and prize tax are left to the organiser and the Romanian authorities here.
- Ask the organiser in writing when a rule names no date, no share or no check.
Contest deadlines in February: reading the rules before the vote opens
Start with the closing date, and write down the day, not only the month. The tree vote printed both edges of its window, 1 and 28 February 2019, which is the level of detail to look for. A rule that names only a month leaves the calendar open, and the reader has to ask the organiser for the day.
Next, separate the entry step from the vote step. In the Alba Iulia contest, photos went up on the hotel's Facebook page first, and the public then had 10 days to vote. An entrant who counts back from the closing day can see how much time the upload had, and whether any entry deadline falls before voting begins at all.
Last, note the public share before deciding anything. If the rules give a percentage for public votes, that figure tells you how far the public decides the result. If they give none, the sensible step is to ask the organiser before entering, because no outside page can supply a share the rules do not print.
Each edition sets its own rules. The Brașov awards appear here as the tenth edition, so a later edition can change the public share, the voting window and the closing day. The 2025 figures on this page do not carry over to a contest that runs in 2026, and nothing here predicts the next year's rules.
- Find the closing day first, because a month name does not settle it.
- Separate the upload date from the voting dates in the rules.
- Photos uploaded to a Facebook page were followed by a 10-day public vote.
- Note the public share, since it sets how much of the result the public decides.
- Entry dates and voting dates can fall on different days within one contest.
Rules that apply
Each dated claim on this page was checked against the news report cited for it, and the page was reviewed on 22 October 2026. The sources are Romanian news reports, and the dated examples fall in 2019 and 2025. Where a source gives a share, a window or a closing day, the page repeats that figure and no other. Where a source is silent, the page says the date is not stated instead of filling the gap from memory or from a similar contest elsewhere. Each figure stays beside its own contest, so a percentage from one contest is never attributed to another.
What we decline
Dates for 2026 are not on this page, because none of the four dated examples covers a 2026 edition. The page does not name winners or their announcement days, does not state Romanian prize or tax rules, and does not say whether any contest is lawful to enter. Organisers alone set how a public vote is weighted and counted, and this page cannot change a count, a window or a share that an organiser has published.
Questions and answers
Four dated examples run their public vote in February. The Brașov culture awards ran in February 2025, Hotel Transilvania's Facebook photo contest ran in February and March 2025, Compari.ro's store award ran from February to April 2025, and the European Tree of the Year entry for a Romanian tree was open from 1 to 28 February 2019. Only the tree entry gives a day for its start.
Only the European Tree of the Year entry for a Romanian tree has a closing day in February that the reports print, 28 February 2019. Compari.ro's store award voting ran until April 2025, and the hotel contest's window reached into March 2025. The reports print no closing day for the Brașov public choice, so this page cannot say whether it closed in February.
The shortest stated period is 10 days, which Hotel Transilvania's Facebook photo contest gave the public in February and March 2025. The 2019 tree vote ran from 1 to 28 February, and the Compari.ro store award ran for three months, from February to April 2025. No length is printed for the Brașov public choice, so no duration can be given for it.
None of the four dated examples prints the day its winners were named, so this page cannot give an announcement date for any of them. The only day-level closing date in the reports is 28 February 2019, for the tree vote. Winner dates are set by each organiser and are not quoted here.
None of the four dated examples states an entry deadline, so no early date can be given for any of them. The hotel contest shows the order of steps: photos went up on Facebook first, and the public then had 10 days to vote. Read the rules for the upload date, then count back from the day voting starts to see how much time the entry took.
Start with the rules, and pull out three dates: the entry deadline, the day voting opens and the day it closes. The examples show why one month is not enough. A tree entry ran over a fixed window of 1 to 28 February, while a store award's voting ran three months, from February to April. Planning built around the month alone will miss the day a window closes.