I'd also like to second what Poor Disadvantaged has said.
I was personally pretty gutted to find out I can't enter since this is a contest I would have a lot of interest in. I didn't feel particularly great when I started planning what I wanted to enter only to find out I was ineligible (and if I recall correctly that rule was added after the contest was initially announced, and was only a rule for voting before then).
Me and a great many other builders are fairly new blood when it comes to the MOCing scene so many of us have never really stumbled across Eurobricks until now (many newer MOCists may not have even heard of Eurobricks until now, or only heard it in passing).
Me, as well as others on my behalf would be extremely grateful if some sort of solution could be reached, whether it be the removal of the rule or some sort of white-list for newer MOCists, or some other solution.
Thanks, Anthony.