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Are you talking about the Music Season Tournament for the Sound Passport? Only listed countries were eligible for the grand prize, they were listed in the rules and played 6 rounds, 3 in the finals. Countries not eligible played in an alternate easier 3 round tournament that had a gold prize at the end.
I'm not sure which you played in. But if you placed #1 and received gold at the end, you were in the shorter tournament that didn't get grand prizes. Thousands of players won those tournaments.