Lazarev came out on top in the popular vote, while the professional juries placed the contestant from Australia (a minor European nation, for the purposes of this contest) in first.
For the purposes of this contest, I favored the former, based on espn.com's pronunciation guide, although in your own home you can say the name however you want, it doesn't matter Thome (a line I stole from the entries of Dick Reid of Oakland and Steve Scalici of Staten Island).
Besides having fun, what was the purpose of the contest?
"The purpose of the contest is to let Yiddish serve as a spark for creativity, to help find new, creative ways to explore the Jewish experience," Bryna Wasserman, the executive director of Folksbiene, stated in announcing the contest.
The purpose of the contest is to provide an educational experience for students in agricultural and environmental related fields of study who have a special interest in weed science.
Björnberg, analyzing the widespread practice of what he calls "buddy voting," writes: Commentators seem to regard the phenomenon as a manifestation of the inability of unsophisticated citizens of the new European nations to comply with the alleged nominal purpose of the contest: to select the best popular song on the basis of inadequately specified musical-aesthetic criteria.
The purpose of the contest is to highlight outstanding student data visualization work at Duke University.
It said the purpose of the contest was to "share an unknown part of the daily life of certain police offices" and this was only the "tip of the iceberg".
The purpose of the contest is to not only come up with some creative solutions to real problems, but also to simply encourage creative and entrepreneurial thinking and the joys of programming.
The purpose of the contest is to promote creative solutions to challenging 3DUI problems, and the Duke team's submission about the Collaborative Hybrid Virtual Environment does just that.
