"...voting will most likely have to be done initially by the members of Renderosity to bring it down to a certain number of finalists." Uh oh... A few points on this: If it has to be this way, then OK. Personally, I'm well against this happening, but if it does I'd very much like to see the following rules: 1) Entrants cannot vote (for obvious reasons) 2) All entries are anonymous to the voters 3) Individual votes are not made available during voting Also - and this is more of a logistical thing - how would this type of voting be accomplished? Say there were 300 entries that needed to be narrowed down to, say, 100. And maybe 400 people vote. In order to get 100 from 300, they'd have to place dozens of votes each. After all, 400 people with 3 votes each could easily vote for only 20 images, especially if only a few stand out. Then what? 380 people don't even get a look in. Conversly, give each person numerous votes (assuming they'll bother, see below) and you'll get so many ties you might as well send the whole lot up. Also, how many people have the bandwidth / time / motivation to look at hundreds of images, especially in a competetion that they have no stake in? Let's face it, the answer is nobody. For the judges it's different in that (a) they ARE the judges and they have a job to do, and (b) the images can be presented to them on CD or something - they hopefully won't have to endure 2-day loading marathons to get them up! :<> I know it's not me who's doing the work here, so it's nothing to do with me, but I'd advise steering well clear of prejudging - as well as the logistical issues, it will create a sh#t load of bad feeling from the people who worked 6 months then didn't get the chance to be judged by the pros. IMO, concentrate on making it easier for the judges to work through the entries rather than giving them less to judge. "Members will have to provide scene and or post work files." Not full scenes, though :o - please tell me I won't have to endure a 20hr upload of my .br5 file!!! ;)