Don’t worry about those reads! You have the whole contest to gain them. Not only a week or something after the deadline. There are a lot of groups that do shout-outs. Just don’t forget to ask if they read all 8 for the retention.
We wait till deadline with publishing. I think that the change the readers read all 8 is bigger then now punishing 5 and the last 3 later. They might forget about it?
Or you need to update weekly 