Wow that's a lot of negative responses here, which I guess has become the norm with these. While I do agree that the winner should have been disqualified for editing the picture, some of you really are taking this a bit too far with how harsh your response is.
Nobody has been ''scammed for their amazing screenshots'' because they didn't win, you aren't guaranteed the win and none of the entries are so overwhelmingly excellent that they blow every other entry out of the water. As liz said, she found there to be multiple deserving shots this time around which is why she randomised it (I personally do not agree with a randomiser) so even if this one didn't win, there's more than just this one that was worthy of winning. Meaning that regardless a few people would have been; to use your phrasing; scammed out of the win.
@LooniBoom despite how aggressive your reply was, I'm almost positive Lizaraloo disqualified your entry. The Theme was ''Light in the Darkness'' Specifying Lantern light and possibly some uncommonly seen part of the map, your post was in broad daylight in the middle of Lone Cove with no lanterns to be seen. Blatantly ignoring the theme and you are somehow insulted that Liz doesn't appreciate the hard work it took for you to take that decent and beautiful shot. Unsure if @Bob9086 would have been disqualified as there's no lantern in the photo, while the right side of the screen is illuminated by orange light, its unclear if this is adhering to the criteria as it could be coming from a static light source in the cave, either way, you weren't scammed.
The weird part is, the shot itself is actually very good in my opinion, the composition is well done and it does stick to the theme of using lantern light to show off an uncommon part of the map, it honestly still seems like it would have been a contender for a randomiser (depending on how many entries have been entered, looking at past numbers it seems probably 10-15 this time around) it really didn't need the editing so I don't know why they did it.