Wow a spontaneous new rule just for me, thanks a lot ico.
I have a better suggestion, you can rate 114 with 0 points as I am no longer interested in the contest.
As Powerglove said, you maybe had honest intentions and you sending merit was merely "thank you", but there were situation in the past where this lead to abuse and accounts were coming out of the woodwork to vote for those who were meriting, causing unecessary drama.
Having said that, even if its pretty much common sense not to merit those who vote for you (and it was mentioned that contestants are not allowed to agigate in any way) it should have been
explictyexplicitly mentioned, like it was for the bitcointalk community awards.