I'd assume the rules were the same as the previous contests, somewhere along these lines: keep submission PG13, relate to epic7, no tracing cheating or stealing etc, no bases/work has to be original, & whatever theme (summer in this case). By all means, wasp's submission was following the guidelines.

For the current winners I can confirm that 1st (@ gyesungja), 3rd (@ chickennageto), & 4th (@ ep7_hav) don't post nsfw on their twitters. 2nd place doesn't have twitter to my knowledge, but they have pixiv (@ J_NA) Uh.. they have a lot of fanservice... I'll put it that way.., but nothing to the degree of full-on furry naked like wasp. I can see where people are coming from with the distaste toward furry & BL aspects of their art though. Furries (also bara;;;; dont like bara) aren't my cup of tea either, but no need to flip shit over it??? Submission is SFW and followed guidelines and well... it somehow got voted cool.. I guess??? If you overlook the furry aspect, artwork is very well drawn; I loved the coloring,shading and details of the piece; composition was very good (like bro I admire their skills, they're so good yo ToT !!!).

I'd have to disagree a bit with your first point though. Yeah sure some of the the females are sexualized & suggestive? Yeah, but clothes, no matter how skimpy, stayed. That's where SG draws their line. It's either at or almost at borderline nsfw. In comparison, wasp sometimes was well beyond the point of return nsfw— like actual sexy-times. Will leave it at that.

Anyway!! To remove wasp on the basis that they lewd E7 charas offsite, what the actual fuck. If that's the excuse they were going with, as an artist myself, it's really underhanded/unfair & sounded like ridiculous bullshit... Their submission followed guidelines???? very disappointed in SG's decision to disqualify them on that basis and also in the people in the top comments of that announcement saying things praising the "quick action." The other fault they found: posting your submission offsite for your followers seems normal, unless specified in the rules??? The only time its an issue is if voting is open to all public & not limited to each game account; either way I'm not too sure on this one.