Please contribute something helpful (like everybody else here, big THANKS everybody!) Please.
Anyway, focus might be more on orgas, so yes, those guys don't have any excuse not using already available tools for validation.
And why they dismissed you on other chats, well, when ppl just completed organizing a very complex but successful event, you're gonna tell someone complaining in your style to f off ;)
"looks like its petscii" was good enough for them.
The rules said “no custom fonts”.
If we go the "enhanced/loose/somethinglike PETSCII" route, meaning allowing custom charsets, then the compo in fact becomes “tiled gfx compo”
Oh, by the way, shouldn’t orgas ask around actual PETSCII artists for their opinion? If not, then who should make that decision? People who were not aware of PETSCII specs in the first place?
Rest assured that the Deadline orga team has a few members who know exactly what PETSCII is and what isn't.