Hey all, I think we can call these results official now

I had one query regarding the voting process over the weekend and talked it over with Wonko, but we both felt things were ok. And as everything is consistent with the previous competition and what was laid out in the rules - that horse probably bolted (ie it's a bit late for a rethink). There'll be a new voting process on the next community site and I'm planning to bring feedback from our competition into that.

I've already started asking the top placed developers (1st or 2nd) from each category what their preferred device reward is. That can affect what's available to 3rd and 4th place as you guys get to pick from what's left basically.. Folks with a N950 and N9 already through the device program are out of luck, but I'll substitute in the largest share of the bounty. I hope to get devices all allocated before the end of the working week, so all you lucky winners should hear from me soon.

Shhusssh you! Stop talking about prizes

We can feel your disappointment rash.. To be truthful, the bottom half of the results don't mean a lot because of the number of votes - try not to be too downhearted You have 22 thanks in your announce thread for meebay for a start so please know your work is appreciated. It just didn't work out this time for you

Yep, we have to remember that our community is basically made up of volunteer developers who fit their development for us around their busy lives. That's one of the reasons the first competition came about, because I felt a lot of people were demanding why 'this or that' wasn't done or available yet on their N900. And these people maybe didn't appreciate the efforts of developers trying to code in their free time. So it was a way for the community who do appreciate to thank the developers. Annoyingly we can't thank everyone in a competition with a prize, cos everyone deserves would certainly deserve one

In saying all that, we have 25 devices from Nokia, plus a device prize from fcrochik, plus a bounty split (which was bounty total/7 categories /2 shares a category) - so 25 + 1 + 14 = 40 individual developer prizes. Which covers a lot of everyone who entered so that's cool. It's unusual to have a competition that awards so many people, but we are an unusual community

I've been vague on bounty split because I was afraid we could end up with a category with 3 or more ineligible developers for devices and I didn't want to be tied down to 2 shares a category - thankfully that doesn't seem to be the case.