[2021] Captain’s Holiday Tree – A Rigged Event

Hi, so the NA team are all on vacation. I’m spending time with family - so I read the comment I was tagged in and went back to family.

You want to know why a winner was decided in a art contest. I don’t know. I went to acting school and got a D on an acting scene because the teacher told me there weren’t enough “peaks and valleys”. Artistic expression and the appreciation of it is subjective.

I don’t appreciate comments like this.

Happy Holidays, guys!

Guys....
"Rigged" would suggest that we set up an event with a winner pre-determined. When we're back in the office we'll go over what happened, see where failure occurred, and note it for future events to avoid issues.
So let's take off the tinfoil hats and have some patience for the holiday to be over so we can take a look at it.

Because I've been trying to spend time with family, brother.
Please settle down on the vindictiveness here. This is a contest for free stuff - not life or death.

We're discussing it internally now.
Standby please - we should be able to get an answer by tomorrow.

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Thanks for your patience, dude. We had to go over the issue and see where it went wrong and why, then come up with a solution and decide how best to do it.
We've decided to choose a second winner with the same prizes as the previous. We read through the sentiment that the initial winner may have somewhat copied their submission from elsewhere, then we had a discussion about whether or not we made it clear enough what an "original submission" even means, then realized that this is exactly why bills and laws that go to Congress are a thousand pages long.
So we're going to vote internally on a winner amongst the NA staff and present you with our votes and why we chose them so you all can see how each of us determines what we like most! The submission that receives the most votes from the staff will be selected as the winner and receive the prizes. I will make a special post in this sub-forum to highlight that winner!
We appreciate the fact that this was irritating to many of you on multiple levels. Further, it happened while we were on vacation so we couldn't address it properly until we got back into the office.
Thanks for bringing it up, thanks for being patient, and most of all thank you to every single participant who submitted their artwork!

Yes!
We made an entire new thread dedicated to choosing internally a new winner as it was discovered that the original winner's entry was not original enough. We determined that the original winner should keep their prize, but that we at WG NA would choose a new winner and show publicly why we chose what.
I'm having trouble finding the thread, but it was posted in the earliest parts of January.

I found it! <3