Maybe all those who venture into this thread and are working on the competition, should make a post to confirm that they are indeed participating, but (like many of us) waiting till the last days to finish it. Cause in the last one, there was a massive increase of posts in the last week or two (many people posting in the last day and also overdue because of the NZ timezone thing).
(a dedicated subforum with compulsory WIP threads, as mentioned above, would solve this uncertainty of knowing how many people are participating)