Quote - I don't think they rejected you from the competition, they just declined to use it in marketing material.

ISTR that the instructions said to specify on the submission that an image was for the competition, so as the form they linked is the same one they have people use to submitimages in general, they are probably just assessing all images using their standard process.

I did indicate that the entry was for this weeks faces contest.  There was no specific "comment field" to enter that, so I put it at the top of the programs comment space, and below that the program I used.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi