I think that we learned something from these two contests and, probably, from next edition, icopress will make some changes (assuming that he will still keep the contests going -- of course, with administration's support as well).
I also hope that some lessons have been learned from the previous two competitions, in which I unfortunately did not vote for some of the reasons I have already explained in some of the previous posts. Just to clarify that I do not blame @icopress, but individuals who, due to their personal interests, made this competition very questionable.
Another suggestion that I am making is to take the contest to Ivory Tower board, thus ensuring that no members with ranks below Full Member are able to interfere. This way we will avoid a good amount of spam. Indeed, this would mean that members with ranks of Newbies, Jr. Member and Member will not be able to vote, no matter if they have more than 50 votes, but, considering the very low amount of such cases (during actual contest we had less than 5 such users, if I remember well) this would not be a problem.
I fully support this idea, and I would also suggest disabling the merits in this thread in order to prevent competitors from motivating voters in this way.