Okay I got my first response to yesterday's post already. It's from Mac Buster, a guy who's opinion I respect (hey, he's put me straight on a few things). So I'll post it here and make a few comments of my own.

"What a strange and weird idea you have about "non .ru" and "anti-euro"! Who told you about this??"

Feedback from a few people, both on the X-board and in other discussions. I've not had first-hand experience, but then my ZX output is kinda low these days. It just seems oddly coincidental that some very good work that gets stopped during pre-selection is from Europe. Can we assume the same is true for all entries, wherever they're from? Perhaps I only hear from the .euro's?

"Preselection team in music compo usually consist of several well known musicians (some of them are professional ones), and only kicks out really low quality and not original entries (e.g. already shown at a party, and so on)."

I kinda expected this was the case, tho' I know that in some competitions the pre-selection committee can consist of just one-or-two people. As for low quality, I've heard/seen some very good work that's been rejected for competitions. I guess this could just be a matter of taste. At least I think we should be told who the pre-selection committee is for each competition (so we can send bribes <g>).

"Nobody sits and checks if entry is from another country or from a person you dislike, etc. In fact none of preselection team knows whose entry is played/shown (in case of demo and gfx) at the moment. And surely an entry will be kicked out only if all team says it does not worth to be shown to party visitors."

Again I will point out that I've seen some good work kicked out by pre-selection. And it's not just work by RA (tho' we seem to be more vocal at times about things like this). I urge people to read the discussions on the board, specifically ones by Gasman and Slayar. They make some good points, especially about not losing the work.
One of my concerns is that if good work doesn't get into a competition, it could annoy people to the point of them not creating more. As we've seen recently, entries to competitions have been dropping (tho' there's quite a good turnout so far for CC1). If any work has lost out to the pre-selectors, then send it out so we can see/hear what we're missing.