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+'use client'
+
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+
+export interface Winner {
+    name: string;
+    challengeTitle: string;
+    projectTitle: string;
+    deadline: Date;
+    placement: number;
+}
+
+const monthNames = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
+
+export default function WinnersSection({winners} : {winners: Array<Winner>}) {
+    const mostRecentDate = useMemo(() => {
+        let mostRecentDateNow = new Date(0);
+
+        for(const winner of winners)
+            if(winner.deadline > mostRecentDateNow)
+                mostRecentDateNow = winner.deadline;
+        return mostRecentDateNow;
+
+    }, [winners]);
+
+    const recentWinners = useMemo(() => {
+        const recentFilter = (winner: Winner) => {
+            if(winner.deadline >= mostRecentDate)
+                return winner;
+        }
+        return winners.filter(recentFilter);
+
+    }, [winners, mostRecentDate]);
+
+    const prevWinners = useMemo(() => {
+        const prevFilter = (winner: Winner) => {
+            if(winner.deadline < mostRecentDate)
+                return winner;
+        }
+        return winners.filter(prevFilter);
+
+    }, [winners, mostRecentDate]);
+
+    return <div className="w-full text-start">
+        <h3 className="text-2xl font-bold pb-8">
+            {monthNames[mostRecentDate.getMonth()]}&apos;s Winners
+        </h3>
+
+        <div className="grid grid-cols-3 gap-5 pb-14">
+            {recentWinners.map((winner) => 
+                <WinnerCard key={winner.projectTitle} {...winner}/>
+            )}
+        </div>
+
+        <div className="bg-card-background border-card-border border-1 rounded-2xl">
+            <h4 className="font-bold w-full border-card-border border-b-1 px-8 py-5">
+                🕒 Previous Winners:
+            </h4>
+            <div className="flex flex-col">
+                {prevWinners.map((winner) => 
+                    <PrevWinnerEntry key={winner.projectTitle} {...winner}/>
+                )}
+            </div>
+        </div>
+
+    </div>
+}
+
+function WinnerCard({placement, name, projectTitle}: Winner){
+    const placementColors = ["text-gold", "text-slate-400", "text-orange-800"];
+    const placementColor = placement > 3 ? "" : placementColors[placement - 1];
+
+    // regex setup for initials
+    const clean = name.replace(/( |_|-|\/|\\|#|\.)/, " "); // remove common name seperators
+    const match = clean.match(/([a-z A-Z])\w+\s([a-z A-Z])\w*\s*([a-z A-Z])*(?=,*)/); // find and place initials in array
+
+    // if match exists, it MUST have at least 3 elements in array
+    // 0 index of match is original string
+    const initials = ((match) ? match[1] + match[2] : name.charAt(0)).toUpperCase();
+
+    return <div style={{order: placement}} className={`flex flex-row bg-card-background border-card-border border-1 rounded-2xl py-4 px-5`}>
+        <div className="grow">
+            <div className="flex justify-center place-items-center text-2xl font-bold h-20 mb-3 bg-linear-to-bl from-accent to-card-border aspect-square rounded-full">
+                {initials}
+            </div>
+            <h5 className="font-bold">
+                {name}
+            </h5>
+            <h6 className="text-text-secondary">
+                {projectTitle}
+            </h6>
+        </div>
+
+        <div className={`font-bold ${placementColor}`}>
+            🏆#{placement}
+        </div>
+    </div>;
+}
+
+function PrevWinnerEntry({name, challengeTitle, deadline}: Winner){
+    return <div style={{order: -(deadline.getFullYear() * 100 + deadline.getMonth())}}
+                className="flex px-8 py-4 border-card-border border-t-1">
+        <p className="text-text-secondary w-4/11">{monthNames[deadline.getMonth()]} {deadline.getFullYear()}</p>
+        <p>{name}</p>
+        <p className="text-end text-accent-light grow">{challengeTitle}</p>
+    </div>;
+}
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