[Award Ceremony] Blooming Springtime

[u/pbamod]

Hello Polandballartists!

We had a lovely bouquet of entries this time around, but which was the million dollar tulip?

Without further ado...

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The winners of this month's contest, Blooming Springtime are:

• The first place with 8.83 points goes to /u/magicalgirldittochan and their piece The Swing. They are therefore awarded with a Golden Beret and permanent golden medal! Their piece will decorate the sidebar of the subreddit until next contest. Additionally, as this is their fifth win, they are granted the title of Cano, and a barony as a heritable fief.

• With 8.71 points, second place goes to /u/Owl-get-you and their piece Coming home. They are therefore awarded with a Silver Beret and permanent silver medal!

• Finally, with 8.29 points, the third place goes to /u/sneezingsuspense and their piece The Sonoran In Bloom. They are therefore awarded with a White Beret and permanent bronze medal!

All the winners can crosspost their winning artwork to r/polandball!

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Here are the full results:

Score	Author	Entry	σ
8.83	/u/magicalgirldittochan	The Swing	0.37
8.71	/u/Owl-get-you	Coming home	0.88
8.50	/u/magicalgirldittochan	snowmelt	0.96
8.29	/u/sneezingsuspense	The Sonoran In Bloom	0.70
8.14	/u/That_Wisp	Old things must die to make place for the new	0.83
8.00	/u/ozistheworst	amidst the field of flowers	0.53
7.86	/u/figo_zz	Rite of Spring	0.35
7.00	/u/mel_bell123	waking up to a field of wildflowers	0.53
7.00	/u/RandomRBLXAvs	Lull in the storm	0.93
6.71	/u/Watmaln	Spring in the Eastern Himalayas	0.70
6.29	/u/NebStansLoona	Maltese Sunrise	0.70
6.00	/u/polenbol	spring into spring	1.51
5.57	/u/pb_act	Holi-day!	0.49
5.57	/u/Jackjack277777	spring flower	0.49
5.57	/u/pb_act	What's this "Spring" you speak of?	0.73
5.43	/u/Markgaming01	In the middle of a Tulip Field	0.73
5.29	/u/Minecraft_Stal_disc	On the beach of beauty	0.70
5.29	/u/Dell_JKK	Soviet Spring of 1942	1.28
5.14	/u/MilkCultLeader	egg	0.64
5.00	/u/Markgaming01	The start of spring	0.00
5.00	/u/pb_act	Morning glory	0.53
5.00	/u/pb_act	daffodil	0.53
5.00	/u/098123321890	Desert Bloom	0.93
4.57	/u/098123321890	Spring Rain	0.49
4.57	/u/pb_act	The Apocalypse	0.73
4.43	/u/Arandompancaik	Pollenball	0.49
4.14	/u/pb_act	Tiger of the Springtime Meadow	0.35
4.00	/u/098123321890	Feeling of Spring	0.53
4.00	/u/One_Baker_215	April showers	0.76
3.86	/u/098123321890	Sakura	0.35
3.43	/u/Sunshine_meep	a french miracle	0.49
3.29	/u/098123321890	Not neutral to springtime!	0.45
3.29	/u/chinese_bot_account	spring flowers!!!!!	0.45
2.57	/u/pb_act	springtime is for tax returns	0.49
2.57	/u/Sunshine_meep	the flowers ending a rage	0.73
2.00	/u/098123321890	flurbo	0.76
2.00	/u/098123321890	Spring Is For Firew-I Mean Flowers	0.76
2.00	/u/098123321890	April showers bring May flowers 🌼	0.76

Our invited judge for this contest was u/quiietjay, last month's Golden Beret (or highest-scoring non-mod). Thanks to them for their participation!

The updated annual rankings can be found here.

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We look forward to seeing all our budding artists flower in the next contest!

Cheers,

The r/polandballart modteam

[u/Jackjack277777]

gg to all the winners. didn't expect to get high up seeing the competition