Jen delayed the voting to allow a few people who had trouble with their uploaded image. Apparently some didn't upload all the way or something.  So she allowed those people a few extra days to reupload their image.

I'm assuming because voting was delayed due to that, that the voting was extended by a few days and so was the announcement.

There was no prize associated with the contest, just something fun to do. So in my books everyone who entered is a winner :)

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi