From all the participants and myself, I would like to thank the judges for providing their time and expertise in making this competition fun and credible. Thanks. 
Lyon, France
Bruno is an XHTML and CSS trainer living in Lyon, France, but blogs about much morethan that, like Microformats, with one eye firmly on graphic design and the other on treatment of the content.
Victoria, Australia
Alister was trained as a graphic designer in the days before PCs, but discovered Web design in 1995 and never looked back. He raves about WordPress, CSS, Web standards, and,of course blogging.
San Antonio, TX, USA
Nicole has been a Texas based technology consultant for the last ten years. She enjoys creating website templates, likes playing with new web innovations and tinkering with WordPress.
Denver, CO, USA
Alex has been an independent developer since moving from the Bay Area with a background in web development and interface design. Alex is also an original contributor to WordPress.
Aarhus, Denmark
Thomas is a Web and graphic designer. His company, design.undersigned.net, is an consultation authority on WordPress and WordPress Mµ projects—small and large.
Sacramento, CA, USA
A blogger, theme author, and WordPress enthusiast who was recently brainwashed by Scott Wallick to produce many Sandbox skins and mods in the near future. “Ha! You’ve been Sandboxed!”
Houston, TX, USA
Paul is a 20 year old Computational Media student at Georgia Tech, former Yahoo! intern as well as diehard Mac and flickr user with a penchant for all things high-tech.
Santa Clara, CA, USA
Bryan is one of design’s up-and-coming Web designers, but also has experience in digital art and print. Formerly of Facebook, he is now runs his new one-man, multi-industry conglomerate Revyver.
Hong Kong
Becca is a Hong Kong-based theme designer who studies, lives, and breathes IT. She can’t change the world, but she hopes to brighten the worlds of others—even if for just a moment.
Vienna, Austria
EliZZZa has worked as a freelance Web designer since 1995 and as a Web production trainer. She’s created more than 300 Web projects — in the midst of a collection of bones, fish tanks & orchids.
Louisville, KY, USA
David is a freelance web designer focused on usability, information architecture, and typography. He has been using WordPress since 2003 and once tried to use it to balance his checkbook.
