hahah people still holding out hope that there will be "winners"! if there should be any winners give it to Witchcraft, the illustrations were amazing. i didn't read any of them because frankly i dont' care, but pictures man, worth a thousand words in contest that minimum was 500. DO MATH.
Yes, there will be winners. Looshus is an honorable and honest man. He ran a free service heirloom library for the player base for Pete's sake!
Being a just and honorable man, he will not judge an essay based on the pictures included. It was an essay contest, not illustration contest. Essays, by definition, are composed of words. I don't know what kind of grading criteria he uses, but perhaps he'll allow extra credit for pictures.
Really though, none of us knows. The facilitator of this contest has been conspicuously absent since this whole thing started. If I knew I had this much time I could have crafted something nicer!
I am impressed with the essays so far though. I've seen players so some craaazy things for ONE free loom. 17 is producing some mighty fine work I tells ya.