User blog comment:Darkest Shadow/SFW Winter Awards 2016-2017/@comment-24350564-20170315161944/@comment-25627885-20170315174451

The reason is posted next to the characters. (Forced owner Neutral)

Cause its kinda unfair for a character not to have a chance at winning just because the owner of the character is voting in the awards and is forced to vote neutral on their own stuff.