I should probably have mentioned this before, and I'll mention it again in the rules post for next month.
The whole point of the AotM competition is to encourage higher administrator standards. Admins should try to be on the server and be actively administrating. When you administrate often and resolve things quickly, you gain the trust of the players. When the players trust you, they will vote for you in the competition. This competition isn't about campaigning really, it is just proving who is actually administrating the best.
Someone else could probably word this better than me.