Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
If it gets dominated by certain styles then that means those are the sorts of styles that a lot of people want.

Either that or (ideally perhaps) they just don't run a vote and instead just have the judges pick out a good balance of interesting things themselves. There are still some things in the old contest's shortlist that I wish they had implemented in addition to the winners.
How does the contest work? Is it world wide? Or another "Japanese players get to choose what everyone else will get" sort of thing?