BTC awards are sent!
There were
so many good submissions. I easily could've listed 150 that I thought were quite good. (Which explains why I sent 9991 total merit rather than the 500 promised.) But I didn't want to split the award too much, so I limited it to 100 award-winners. In light of the quality and number of submissions, I also increased the total award to
1.07 BTC.
In judging these, it was a major detractor if the art didn't have much/any clear conceptual connection to the forum, and especially if someone looking at it wouldn't have any hope of guessing that it might've been created with the forum in mind. It pained me to exclude or significantly reduce the award-ranking of several excellent pieces of art due to this. Other than that, the ranking was basically down to my personal subjective opinion. In choosing winners, I am not saying that
x art is definitively better than
y art. There's room for everyone to be disappointed, including the highest-ranked BTC winners, who might've wanted less
splitting of the award. But this competition was done just for fun, and I hope that everyone can be positive about the result.
