Again, it appears this is your interpretation, I have not seen evidence to back this up. Please see my previous statement:
I think that Newbies would qualify (and that the Member restriction was only Bitcointalk actions) because of this statement:
User Morskoy22 is a Newbie, and it would make no sense for blenderio to tell someone who doesn't even qualify to change some stuff to fix the entry. Unfortunately, both the spreadsheet they had and the video they posted were taken down which would provide concrete proof on the entries that they consider qualifying.
None of us participated in that, so it comes down to are you satisfied with how they handled themselves? I left them neutral, for my benefit if I come across them in the future, I'll know what questions to ask.
I don't even know if I would qualify if they did run it as I entered fairly late on the last day. I'm unsatisfied with the way they did things, which is completely ignoring the second week of the giveaway until they were denied forum ad spots in May due to having negative trust. If they announced the day after the week ended that there weren't enough entries and just closed it or make it a double/triple week for entries, I'd probably feel disappointed but agree that it was a fair decision.