The bribing is the worst, I mean come on, what good is a PL shield if you didn't earn it? Huh, idk, but this is horrible.

Here's what I thought in the first place. The devs should look at all the entries, take all the familiar looking helms, and throw em in a pile, and look through to see if the helms were copywrited (if this step is necessary, idk if it would be, since it was in the rules) and then scrap all the copywriter helms, then go look at the other ones, and see which ones could be implemented well, take the ones that will look nice, and have a good design, and can be implemented well and fit the game and push them into voting, that's just my opinion. Either that or pick their top 5 favorite designs and send those out for voting. I just think this way isn't the best way.

Edit:
rnr, you are completely right, but no one can find a way to prevent this other than the devs.