It won the competition. It was evaluated by professional judges. And it won.
Sounds like a sloppy way to win to me.
Thank you.
Do you really not understand or are you trolling me?
In order for it to be stripped of its first-place prize, it must have first won the first-place prize.
Here’s an easy to understand analogy; if you deposit a fake check for a million dollars, your account will briefly show a million dollars, but then the check bounces, and your balance goes back to what it was before because you were in fact never a millionaire.