Valentiones Contest ( and contests in general)

[TeaTimeBear]

Rules for Entry

The screenshot must be taken by the user submitting.
Please do not submit images of only NPCs or backgrounds.
Make sure you character is visible in the screenshot.
You may use image editing software to crop your screenshots.
You may not use image editing software to alter, enhance or add more features to your screenshot.

Those are the rules right there, but if you take the time to browse through the lists of those chosen, it would appear that SE is not following their own rules. There are questionable pictures with people who aren't fully visible, and posting pictures of characters but they themselves aren't included within the picture and a few not following the theme. So I'd like to know how exactly these things are judged for one and do you the community think it's fair? Is there a better way to handle these contests? One of the entries had a photoshopped heart in it and it won.. I mean come on?

I myself did not win, but that may or may not be because my picture was considered shopped when it wasn't.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Thread/page49 <------ Page with my entry

Now I'm not asking to be given any kinda compensation. They were picked and I can live with that, I just want to know if anyone thinks this could be better handled.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...NA%29-Winners! <---Winners listing