The summer is almost officially over and the deadline for submitting your Silverlight app is now only hours away. The application submission form will be taken down tomorrow (September 22) at exactly 2:00pm Eastern Time. If you have a publicly accessible Silverlight application to show off, now is your last chance to enter the competition.

78 Contestants and Counting!

Just as we hoped, hosting this competition has been a blast so far. When we launched it back in June we didn't quite know what to expect. Since participating requires effort on the part of contestants, we weren't sure if we were going to get enough signups to make things interesting. Well, the competitive spirit among Silverlight developers is alive and well! Just take a look at our gallery of contestants:



In fact, we already have more than enough applications to invoke our "Quota Exceeded" contest rule: "If more than 50 Entries are submitted, ComponentArt judges will select the top 50 semi-finalist Entries (taking community votes into account). The semi-finalist Entries will then be judged by the remainder of the Expert Panel."

This rule was there to avoid the scenario in which people on our Expert Panel become the victims of our success and have to review and grade a very large number of applications. Our experts have volunteered their time to support a fun community event and we need to treat that time with respect.

Schedule Changes

I would also like to draw everyone's attention to the changes in the schedule for the remainder of the competition:

• Oct 23 - Community Voting Ends (moved from Oct 6)
• Nov 3 - Announcement of the 5 Finalists (moved from Oct 13)
• Nov 10 - Announcement of the Winner (moved from Oct 20)
  

The new schedule allows more time for community voting as well as application grading by the Expert Panel.

May the best app win!