Quote Originally Posted by Boblawblah View Post
What's more likely:

A) 90% of non-Japanese players (in the ENTIRE WORLD) just happen to not follow the directions and miraculously 80% the winners were Japanese because of this

Or

B) The devs are biased towards Japanese player's ideas/culture and consciously or sub-consciously picked Japanese winners.

Unless Japanese players make up 80% of the playerbase, then no, it's not cool, and it is insulting, and not conspiratorial.

Also, most of the winning styles are just so..safe.

Considering every single winner used the template, and almost every entry I saw posted on reddit (that wasn't picked) did not, I'm going to go with they simply followed the directions.