Please don't take this issue to that contest thread. We should discuss and solve it here.
I think you shouldn't get offended with the recommendation by someone else to use other designer's service. I'm from 2014 too, and the early years was not easy for me. In signature design business, people kept recommending roslinpl and medUSA, and in logo or other kind of designs, MaliceRed and zinodaur were often mentioned. Not only that, I lost in all of design contests in my first two years and it didn't make me to stop or blame someone.
bL4nkcode manages that list so the clients, especially the new ones, wouldn't get scammed by a newbie designer or to save their time to check every page of service board finding any designer. And if people recommending someone, it doesn't mean they get paid by doing that. There is no guarantee at all that people in the list will get every work on this forum. You can just pm the client and show your portfolio to them. That's what I'm doing for years and most of them worked. I hope it's all clear now, isn't it?
clients come to you , you don't send their portfolio ,you put your link to your portfolio on your own topic ... there is no such thing as bitcoin designers topic or group ...the only ones who can judge designers are other designers and customers ...
bL4nkcode admitted to rigging this contest... would you trust this guy to tell you how is a designer or not ? ... he has no design skills and he fixes contests ..."Rigged = something that is fixed in a dishonest way to guarantee a desired outcome."