And that's my last-minute effort.
All three deserved recognition. Many others also deserved recognition I'm sure, and I've seen a few I think deserved it more than even the first place winner. But the catch is I'm not the one who judged the contest, and neither are any of the rest of us. With 11000 entries, even if we invoke Sturgeon's law that's still 1100 good ones. Valve had to make a really tough call in a short amount of time. They made it, and that's that.