This seems like a reasonable way to run a tournament/contest like this. I don’t think you’d get good results if it was based solely on voting it something else

This seems like a reasonable way to run a tournament/contest like this. I don’t think you’d get good results if it was based solely on voting it something else that could be easily gamed. Almost all your winners would just be teams good at gaming! But I say all that not knowing how the tournament was presented to the participants. I’d be pretty mad if I thought they asked me to do one thing and worked really hard to achieve that and it turned out they wanted something else all along.