So, gathering the top 50 posts according to theymos' merit, and his only. We could get a better idea of who's in the running for badges before theymos posts in a few days time.
It was my understanding that he would be nominating entries for badges based on merit from
all users:
- Between 1 and 20 (depending on number of submissions) people will receive art contest recognition badges:

, based mainly on
community consensus of who had the best art. In judging consensus, I will be substantially but not entirely influenced by the total amount of merit your art received.
For the badges, I think that I'm going to collect the top ~50 most-merited submissions and let the community vote on the winners from among them. But I'm not going to think much about the exact framework of this until I've determined the BTC winners.