We understand that it was rough voting for writing and HAs (without CWs) this time around and have a plan for future contest voting pages that will make it much easier on everyone thanks to feedback given on the news comments / elsewhere. :)
Like said, we're working out ideas to make this better in the future. Splitting it up helped some (do you guys remember the various singular contests with hundreds and hundreds of entries?), but we're still hoping to make it better in the future. Unfortunately splitting up the categories like this limited the other options, but writing aside (which was going to be difficult no matter what), this was a lot more functional than the ones with seriously huuuundreds of images on the same page. I remember when I had to organize the Vesnali HA contest, and the pumpkin carving. Oh man. It was amazing but so much work! Hopefully we can find an even better solution for next time!