Frankly, I think that challenge rules should be thrashed out by a mod/coord and the challenger.
We've seen these discussions go on and on, get nowhere, solve nothing and leave people depressed and unwilling to compete.

The results are always the same. The best piece wins. The worst doesn't.

Sure, we have some voters who lookout for their friends, but real friends don't do this. I may be your friend, but if you turn out a piece of crap I'm going to tell you about.

The Bryce challenges are not about who wins, they are about learning how to use Bryce better. They are about inspiration and interrpretation. They are about the Art. They are about integrity and honesty.

And when the challenge is over, every entrant should be asking themselves how they could have improved their entry and what it was that swung the voters. Not griping that Mr X only won because his friends voted for him. etc etc etc.

Winning is nice. Winning is cool. But it isn't the whole object of the exercise.

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All the Woes of a World by Jonathan Icknield aka The Bryster

And in my final hours - I would cling rather to the tattooed hand of kindness - than the unblemished hand of hate...