Hi, I'm new here but I have browsed the site occassionally and was interested in all your thoughts of this competition. I entered 2 songs each with a lowly score of 5. After a few searches of the scores only 11 entries did not get a commended or better and only 172 got a score of 4 and there were alot of entries. I have no conclusion of what it means but I noticed that some entrants who placed a number of entries in a single category would get at least one highish score and entrants in the lyrics section mainly seemed to get 6/7 or 8 scores (well in the 150 results returned that could be viewed, there are more but the database won't let me view them).
My thoughts on the winners are that the judges don't see past production which they state they don't do when entering, and the winning songs were bland. Not sure I would enter again as after looking at the scores it all appears a bit random and think the actual judges only listen to a small handful of entries. The winning song in the rock section was enjoyable but was just an AC/DC copy (nothing to get too excited about as one of the judges apparently did) so maybe next year I'll just get an Aerosmith backing track, replace the lyrics and enter that.