For my painting shows incompleteness.
To be listed in one of 15 finalists, also, is doubtful.
My srategy is to use my strong point---composition and theme, to make up my weakness---lack of practice in the past 2 yrs. But that backfired, since I need to paint 4 figures in full body within 6 weeks, it would bound to be half baked.
My dear friend, those competitors, almost all grow up by drinking milk. In the year of OX? Oxen will object.