The whole Extra Points for GA contests is really giving me headaches and never really worked, expecially because I never set the rules correctly for them, and technically a not-so-skillful spriter could win a contest by entering with like 20 badly scratch-drawn entries. This doubt has crossed my mind when I noticed that VF's entries would have racked up more points depending on how I interpreted the rules so I guess that from this contest onwards no extra points will be awarded unless for special reasons (that is, like, drawing your own pic for this particolar one).I know all of you aren't probably interested in such trivia but I felt like asking for your opinion on the matter.
You could arbitrarily give points and not make it a complete democracy. You could base your decisions on a jury's opinions (lol me, POTS, you, Titiln, whutevah).
Have the extra points ever solved a tie between an edit and an original sprite? I never really liked that system, voting should suffice.