In my opinion, and this is just mine and I'm sure some guys on the committee won't agree with me but here is my 2cents:
This 'major' prize was only introduced this year at no cost to the club and was generously given by Mitch @ Immaculate Reflections. And this competition was organised by myself with Mitch.
Originally he was going to come on the day and judge for himself. Unfortunately he couldn't make it, so we decided to run this competition. And to be honest if he did attend the prize probably would have gone to SS8_Gohan in any case. So I decided to mix things up a bit to give everyone a chance
Without Mitch we wouldn't even have this prize to give away, so I think everyone should just be grateful that we were able to organise these free prizes. Last year there were just trophies and giveaways and thats it!
There are still trophies to be given out as judged by a panel, so the public only got to get involved in one aspect of the prize pool unlike prior years.
TL:DR
Free entry, free drinks, free pizza
Free Trophies
Free 'major prize'
We do our best with good intentions but can never please everybody
In saying all this, because it has caused such commotion this will probably be the last year we run this sort of 'Facebook' style like competition.