Wis, Wis Wis,
Dick has made the offer that he would ask the judges. Let's wait and afford the man the same consideration that we would like to be afforded ourselves in a similar situation. Let's not cloud the issue, just because we disagre with Dick over things like NAS. This is a different issue.
As regards your quote:
What has happened is that Dick expressed a very strong opinion, then offered a very large cash inducement to journalists to write an article about the subject of that opinion.
This can be taken one of two ways. Either Dick wanted a pre-conceived outcome and was so pissed-off with the result, which didn't go his way, that he decided no award would be given; and then shrouded the outcome in the opinion of 'independent judges.'
Or, the submissions were sub-par crap and the judges decided accordingly.
Frankly, I'll go with number two.