Ilya Korniyko, 01/11/2013 21:07:
[...] This year we found out only after final jury
round that second place is
authored by one of jury member's father an his wife. [...]
Who is "we" here? I suppose the juror in question knew. :) So it's hard
to be confident about the impossibility of an influence.
Your decision seems a reasonable compromise (and the board ratifications
exist to ensure the chapter's procedures are respected), though being
second in a contest is a prize in itself. We may have a precedent in a
WMIT rule which requested the participants to have an email; I doubt
we'd squalify a participant without one, but the rule would authorize us
to avoid hunts to deliver prizes to an unreachable person.
Nemo