Are the winners of this art contest decided by just one person? If so, is that person the one giving away the packs?

This seems like something that could be run by a small group, or the Mavs, and/or include some adjustments to personal preference, based on previous wins/placements, at least.

It seems like voting on the art contest could be a great use-case for staked SPS voting Hive account@cryptomancer, whatcha think? The person running the contest compiles the valid entries, and anyone with staked SPS could vote on them, with some negative modifiers for having been in each of the top slots the week (or two) before. Sort of a handicap to increase the variety of artists chosen.

To be clear, I'm not 100% neutral here, Hive account@h-t-t is a good friend, and after years of telling him about Steem & Hive, it was a pretty big deal to have him get his first post up, and to have it be such an epic entry to the @Splinterlands contest, clearly one of the best last week, was even more exciting... Not even a mention?

I'm not nearly the art critic that Hive account@aak23 here is, but clearly #1 on this list is... not great, by any standards, #7 is super out-dated and probably used for some other IP, etc.