Where did the spar ppl come from? Do they just appear when people decide to misread what I wrote and assume I'm 'winning' ? Or 'whining' about a 'competion' (whatever that is)?
On a serious note, there was a lot of good stuff in the submissions this year. A lot of quality art. Too bad that the process to acquire that art wasted countless hours of other peoples' time that could have been utilized productively by those who organized the event.
To do so, all you need is to start the event in october and assign some staff to a 'submissions' thread in the forum where they can review the art and suggest corrections from time to time. Seriously - thousands of hours of free labor for a few hours a week spent reviewing and critiquing... It's almost like hiring people for free as opposed to actually paying workers and producing a quality product...