We'll always keep the criteria in mind when judging but sometimes the opinions of the ES group can differ from the opinions of others since judging those criteria is still something that's partially subjective.
That is something that was also noticable in the differing opinions of the artists that participated on who should've won, chab, clint, weppetko, monobi were all mentioned by contenders.
We try to get as broad of a board of judges as possible in order to get the best number of opinions to base our results off but our result might still differ from those of others in some cases like last HTotM, this however doesn't mean that we don't follow the criteria or that our voting is biased.

For the record, this thread is for the submissions for this month's HTotM and not to look back at the results of last month. If you want to talk about last month discuss it in #art or somewhere else but this isn't the right place.
Any future posts that discuss previous months instead of the current submissions will be deleted and/or infracted.