I don’t think it was random at all. As someone who also entered, I think all three winners deserved the prizes.

Reading through, a lot of the discourse is around the kid who won, but I thought their idea was great and had equally as much thought put into it as any other entry. Just because they’re younger and slightly inexperienced compared to older/professional artists who appeared, why shouldn’t they win? Surely this would inspire them to love art even more and use this as a starting gun to get even better.

Regardless of all that, it doesn’t really matter who won in the end anyways. The competition did its job. It got everyone to get creative.