I feel like I should point out this line from the "long" version of the rules:
"...this coming year will see the final Masters’ contest. There is a small chance that a profoundly renewed interest in the contest by the AMV community would convince us to keep it going a while longer, but, short of that, this will be the last opportunity to win the coveted Masters’ jacket."
The decision to drop Master's really is based on a percieved dropping-off of interest. If that suddenly reversed, we'd re-institute the contest. But I don't want this to look like a "schtick" to drum up support. Submit if you really are interested, but don't submit just because you want to prop up the contest for tradition's sake. If there isn't enough interest left, we should end it before all interest is gone.



