Maybe the prizes were too big, and frightened some of us who thought that it
would be a extremely high-level competition.

And the time wasn't the best to choose: i didn't have much time for my
submission since i was starting the year. If i remember well, the
competition announcement was given during the holidays.
2 months would be enough, but not in early september.

Now it's a good time to start the things again.
You may put a deadline to the 31th dec. or the 5th jan..

The rules were also HARD to understand. The 1/25th of the picture is really
a silly idea! Couldn't it be "show us how far you've gone into details"?
And i sincerely had to give false coordinates because i didn't have time to
render things again, and i had to recalculate the coordinates from the
"+sr0.000245" commands (it took me almost an hour to put those coordinates,
and to re-upload the detail image each time).
A detail view? Ok, you need to know if everything has been shown. But if
there was NOTHING? It's a subjective thing, the artist will show how far he
has gone into detail, and can't do more.
Just ask to provide a picture and two detailed pictures.

And why can't the entries be modified once submitted? I may want to submit
it once to be sure to participate, and to modify it as long as i still have
time.

The format rule has not been made to be understood. Couldn't you just type
"minimum resolution: 1280*960, maximum size 5Mb"? Why couldn't i do a
960*1280 picture? And an 960*2800 one?

You asked too much for a subject-free competition. So it failed.
Do not blame any of us for that.

I just hope that povcomp will succeed.

selsek