Preliminary Art Contest Winners

Dear Eggdopters and art contest participants, there’s no denying that the art contest was an interesting experience. We’ve had a good time going over all the entries, and with the final announcement of winners less than 3 days away, we wrote this post to inform you of important developments and what to expect.

First, we would like to congratulate the preliminary winners 🥳. You’re probably thinking “what the heck are preliminary winners?” Well, to explain, we need to talk about plagiarism.

Plagiarism and the Disqualified Lovelies (preliminary losers)

In deciding the winners of the art contest, we ran into a knot of a problem—plagiarism. Because the crypto space, and by extension NFTs, are unregulated, there is rampant abuse of Intellectual Property rights.

As a believer in the values of intellectual property ownership and the fair rights they confer on the artist, we had to disqualify from the contest plagiarists (who intentionally flouted plagiarism rules) and some worthy contenders (who accidentally ignored copyright, or thought it was fine to ignore).

While we like the work of the worthy contenders, we are legally prevented from choosing them because we’re paying for this as an Association, and so we cannot legally buy copyright protected assets not labeled for reuse of commercial activity.

You can read this post for more information on our reasoning.

Thus, the preliminary winners consists of all the artworks that were not disqualified because of plagiarism.

The Results

With that out of the way, let’s see what’s left and select the preliminary winners.

Egg #8882

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #3737

DISQUALIFIED
DISQUALIFIED
WINNER

Egg #1925

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #8889

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
NO ENTRY

Egg #3167

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #3223

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #5115

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
NO ENTRY

Egg #3687

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #8000

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #3993

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #8885

WINNER
DISQUALIFIED
RUNNER-UP

Egg #5991

WINNER
DISQUALIFIED
DISQUALIFIED

Egg #0550

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #2140

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #2189

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #7666

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #6015

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #0841

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #6668

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #5666

WINNER
DISQUALIFIED
RUNNER-UP

Egg #3338

WINNER
DISQUALIFIED
RUNNER-UP

Egg #1926

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #6663

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #2045

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #9961

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #1542

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #1917

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #2158

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #7775

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #2065

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
DISQUALIFIED

Egg #1540

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #2166

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #3122

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #0190

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #0404

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
NO ENTRY

Egg #5557

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
RUNNER-UP

Egg #2178

WINNER
RUNNER-UP
NO ENTRY

Egg #8788

DISQUALIFIED
DISQUALIFIED
WINNER

Egg #2177

WINNER
DISQUALIFIED
RUNNER-UP

Egg #3434

DISQUALIFIED
WINNER
RUNNER-UP

Contesting the Results

These results are our preliminary findings. As humans we accept there is the possibility for error and we'd like to give contestants 48 hours to contest the results.

If you were disqualified and have proper licensing on your images please contact Christina via Telegram at @cmiyar or discord at Velinova#0001.

Timeline

Selecting the 10 Additional Winners

The 10 runners-up to also win will be chosen by the entire RMRK team to be announced on the 16th of July 2021.

Raffle Draw

If you’re familiar with the art contest then you’ll know that there will be a raffle draw to select one lucky voter who will get 5% of the total prize pool for the contest. If you’re unfamiliar with this, then read this post. The raffle draw will happen on 16th of July 2021.

Announcing Winners

All winners (winners and the 10 additional winners) will be announced on the 16th of July 2021.


As you can see, the wait is almost over! Within the next 72 hours, we will reveal the chosen birds that will make it into the great Kanaria. Are you as excited as we are?

To recap, all winners (raffle draw, winners, and 10 additional winners) will be announced in a follow-up post on the 16th of July 2021.

Bring on the 16th, the day of birds and winners!

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