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+"use client";
+
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+import { FaTrophy, FaHistory } from "react-icons/fa";
+
+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: 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(() => {
+    return winners.filter((winner) => winner.deadline >= mostRecentDate);
+  }, [winners, mostRecentDate]);
+
+  const prevWinners = useMemo(() => {
+    return winners.filter((winner) => winner.deadline < mostRecentDate);
+  }, [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 border-card-border rounded-2xl hover:border-accent transition-all">
+        <h4 className="flex items-center gap-2 font-bold w-full border-b border-card-border px-8 py-5">
+          <FaHistory className="w-4 h-4" />
+          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(/( |_|-|\/|\\|#|\.)/g, " "); // 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="relative flex flex-row bg-card-background border border-card-border rounded-2xl hover:border-accent transition-all py-4 px-5">
+      <div className={`absolute top-4 right-4 flex items-center gap-1 font-bold ${placementColor}`}>
+        <FaTrophy className="w-4 h-4" />
+        #{placement}
+      </div>
+
+      <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>
+  );
+}
+
+function PrevWinnerEntry({ name, challengeTitle, deadline }: Winner) {
+  return (
+    <div
+      style={{ order: -(deadline.getFullYear() * 100 + deadline.getMonth()) }}
+      className="flex px-8 py-4 border-t border-card-border"
+    >
+      <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>
+  );
+}