This brings up an interesting point to me. When the third party organizations are getting this amount of control and power over the workshop, they can essentially 'filter out' the artists they want to see succeed or not, and you can very easily see favoritism (if not from valve) in their selections. There is absolutely…
I'm just going to drop in something somewhat unrelated but somewhat related here about what my experience has been with the Valve selection process. When you submit an item or a set to Valve as part of a tournament ticket, or a chest, or anything that "forces" Valve to make some kind of statement regarding what's going on,…