Maybe I'm reading it all wrong but... the way I see it, the thread was made because there's a redundancy in the contests. Regardless of the TS's feelings, it's still wasteful that a non-tradeable, unique item would be given to the same person.

My suggestion would be to alternate (bluebird earrings was given recently so the next contest shouldn't have it as a reward, maybe a March or April contest would).

However, there really is no obvious set-in-stone criteria for judging... I mean, that obviously photoshopped image of a lalafell with fireworks over a group of people who were mourning won the Starlight contest until a thread was made to protest it, even though one of the rules states that you can't heavily alter an image.