Well, there *is* a reward in that the folks behind the winning entries will have managed to come out at the top of a fifty plus pile of submissions;
Yes, that would make sense, if... - the compo would be anonymous, by what I mean no credits displayed, so it would be free of namevoting (sure, this wouldn't be foolproof since the group names would be there, but still)
But I couldn't care less about the rankings, as they seem highly influenced by various social affairs and timing.
I don't really understand in what way could that boost anyone's ego, but maybe I'm just naive.
Most of us have a recognisable "style",
so even if we went to extremes where every logo said "Anonymous" and the scrolltext was Lorem Ipsum there'd still be ways to work out whose work it was... even assuming you can persuade a group of sceners to keep their collective gobs shut for the entire duration of the competition. =-)
i'm not entirely sure that isn't to some degree true of any scene competition though...?
When we have the results in a few days, would that be much different compared to using a voting-system such as the c64.sk music compos? I doubt it.
Like Hein, Mixer and others already said in other words: Let's just be glad or even a little proud of what scene (as a community! fucking around with 8 bit stuff as a hobby!) was capable of doing within a few months in an X year, and let me finish with stating quality and quantity are a blast!
The only thing I'd change would be to add an NTSC compatibility requrement ;)