Wow...well... I'm still in, and I submitted my sprite..what, like two days into the competition. I thought it was fun, and it stirred me to creativity! I'm really proud of my work; I think you need to be personally proud of what you do, and not worry so much about whether or not your sprite is better than someone else's. Perhaps you should ask whether or not your sprite is better than the last sprite you made; that's always a better comparison to use. Time really is a difficult thing... you live by it, and you die by it, true? lol