I still need to finish my style not sure wether to actually submit this or not.

hm, might actually submit my sites new vb3 style. have to think about that.

erm, what if the style actually has major template modification, IE Postbit and userinfo?

well it is a choice of designer but I can say that such a style does not have much chance. We are looking for something simple and clean as announced. We are already hacked and have potential to be hacked more so a lot of changes in the templates is not something we are looking for.

Or to be more specific: If we are not pleased by some changes we'll just overwrite them.

So the most important thing is the style / colors / buttons /header / footer part.
if you have an overwhelming postbit idea but we don't like it, your style can win as well, but we'll most likely remove the postbit-changes then

And no one thought about this prior to starting the contest?

we thought about it, but we never thought, the devs would need soo long time until gold is finished ;)

you may remember there were some dateline when gold should have arrived in the past ;)

Actually noone knew gold would take this long to arrive.

I'll work on it... only problem is I normally get $250 for a skin lol, but since I have noone to do work for right now I'll probably enter... would you prefer the skin to be a darker themed skin or lighter one?
Thanks

i think the best option would've been to have finalists at the stage of gold and then give them 2 weeks to update templates.