I’d say it just ruins the credibility of the whole thing.
I think Guntar deserves the win. The judges surely knew they were judging a ‘1 hour’ design contest and I think their comment was more a toung-in-cheek remark about how impressed they were that the guy did all that work in an hour… Either way, bad choice of words lol.
But I don’t think Guntar did anything that would take longer than 1 hour (excluding all the scanning, thinking etc. like C77 suggests). Just a few sketches and a bit of photoshop. Nice win Guntar.