I am sorry, all were rejected. Good luck till next times.
Sorry I couldn't help out much as I am out of merits, but I sent you whatever I had as I love people being generous towards lower ranks, appreciating their works. Even I had a thread where I gave away my merits and I still see some good posts and feel helpless to merit them, but the forum is full of awesome people like you and many more who take a step forward to do the best thing - sharing it. So it doesn't matter to me any more that only I should send the merits, but the good work should be carried on and this is all we need.
Thanks for your words, 2double0. I know the challenge that low rank users have to face because I used to be a low rank user too. This is one of main reasons why I opened the merit give away contest to help them.
It is a bad day for all applicants today when their applications all rejected but please neither being sad nor give up guys. I have a truth to tell you:
Sometimes you will not only win the contest, but also receive more merits (than the promised-amount in OP) for good posts in your post history (the ones you even don't apply here). Additionally, you can received merits from the others (not only from me).