I have been following the Bounty for a long time and sometimes a good bounty manager will ask for payment up front to give bounty participants tokens after the bounty ends, but when the manager's bounty doesn't get paid up front, then all payment terms will be done by the project #DevelopmentTeam and we must be patient wait if the distribution is too late because there are some technical constraints on calculations, additional allocations and the presence of scammers in the spreadsheet