And another suggestion I'd like to make, for the next iterations of the contest, is to have two phases during the contest: a first phase where all eligible users can vote any users they want and a "play-off", where top 5 users of each category are qualified. In the second phase the voters can nominate only users which qualified in the play-off. I think in this way the contest would raise even more interest and it will be more spectacular.
I think it's a very interesting idea. And it can even help to reduce the likelihood of ties arising. In addition to even being able to facilitate who does the collection of votes. Having the specific name of the candidates, the vote can be in poll format and that makes everything simpler and more practical.