Not only was the public voting a big factor, it was also greatly affected by preliminary results being published two days before the voting ended. That had a bi

Not only was the public voting a big factor, it was also greatly affected by preliminary results being published two days before the voting ended. That had a big impact on subsequent voting. The teams on top started getting a lot of "competitive votes", i.e. people voting one star all-round to favor other projects. This kind of behavior really soured the spirit of the voting. I wish the organizers had thought twice before publishing the results ahead of time. Other than that, big props to the organizers. Everything about this competition was well organized and well ran. So many awesome projects came out of it. I'm so glad I could be a part of it. Full disclosure: I was in the Swarmation team.