On status contests mechanism with honor utility,this paper examines how designers should decide the number of contestants and the size of every status category with objective of maximizing the total efforts and the number of status categories given.Through analysis of the honor utility's effect on the total efforts with the change of sizes of contiguous status,we find out that: i) whatever the distribution of contestants' ability is,a small size of the top status category is reasonable; ii) if the distribution of contestants' ability is concave,the size of the bottom status category should exceed half of the number of contestants; iii) if the distribution is convex,the size of the top status category should not exceed half of the number of contestants.