Criteria for the Interior Design Contest?

[Elamys]

While I can agree that there were a lot of people who won that shouldn't have due to usage of gpose and filters, Tyria, why are you so concerned about this as to make another post on the forums after the facebook post? You won in one category, why be salty that you weren't picked in others? Is it not better that more people had an opportunity to win the prize. It just seems very mean-spirited and rude to those who did win and did follow the rules to say "well some of these designs just don't seem as good as X design I saw or did."

Also, re: excessive glitching disqualifying people, I was one of the winners and there are a number of glitches in my home, including one that is blatantly visible in the thumbnail used in the winning announcement. We don't know why SE chose one and not another, whether it's because the person did something to disqualify themselves, whether it's because there was too much glitching, or whether or not SE just didn't feel the design was worthy of merit.

This happens every design or art contest - "why did this win, it's so terrible?" The most obvious of answers is that SE did not agree with you on it.

I would like to highlight this:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4734116

The winner that summitted a screenshot of exterior asked if she was allowed to. The answer was negative. Than she submitted it anyway and even ended winning the contest...
I am sorry, but this is not fair.

That post does not necessarily say that posting a screenshot of the exterior among the 6 or so of your interior is going to disqualify you.