Each week, we'll be giving away $250 to the top-rated game and $150 to the second- and third- place games uploaded on Kongregate. These weekly contests run Saturday to Friday and must have a minimum of 10 votes to qualify. The current round of weekly contests will run from January 3rd to January 30th.

Any game first published during January is also eligible for our monthly contest. Voting will last through February 3rd, 2009, and we'll be awarding $1500 to the highest-rated game, $1000 to the second-highest, $700 for the third, $500 for fourth, and $250 for 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. Games must have a minimum of 30 votes to qualify.

To be eligible for our monthly prizes, games must also implement our statistics API. Instructions can be found here. We promise it's fast and painless, and it'll also make your game eligible for challenges and non-time-limited achievements/statistics in the future.

So here's the breakdown:

Placement is determined by user votes, but we retain the right to exclude votes that we feel were made in a fraudulent manner (mainly, through the creation of multiple accounts). Feel free to encourage your friends, family and fans to vote for your game(s), but encouraging fans to create multiple accounts or downvote competition will not be allowed.

All uploaded games participating in our contests are also fully eligible for ad revenue share.

For more information, read through our official contest rules:

Monthly Contest
Weekly Contest