I'll take you up on that offer! Give me the Clio and I'll bet that I'll beat you in the F1 car, simply because you don't know how to drive it. By the time you've figured out how to stop it from stalling, I would have won the race already
Same thing here.
This. I actually made this same remark in the submissions thread, but it went unnoticed it seems.
Fasman, if someone is willing to have a R8k cellphone the likes of an iPhone 4S and then bitch and moan about people with DSLRs, they're neglecting that they didn't need to buy an iPhone 4S. They could have stuck with their iPhone 4 and used the money they'd saved to buy at LEAST a camera
like this.
If they truly stood a chance
on merit of their capability, they could have gone out and rented a DSLR for the day to take a prepared-for photo or borrowed a camera from a friend or family member.
If, on the other hand, they know no one from who to borrow a camera, cannot afford to rent one and cannot afford to get anything better than a
Blackberry 8520's camera as far as cellphone cameras are concerned, it simply sucks to be them. They saw a competition that was open to classes far out of their league and so were that much more limited in the potential of what they could have done when considering the breadth of possible subjects for which photos could've been submitted.
If the competition were limited to compact and bridge cameras only, people like me would be out. If it were limited to cellphone cameras only, people like me would be out. Yes, a Blackberry Curve 8520's camera is still a camera, but it might as well be a webcam from the 90s that got stuck into the phone - even someone like me could draw clearer pictures than this thing can take.
If it were limited to DSLRs a lot of people would again be out, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be people with expensive cameras that aren't all that good at using them to get impressive photos. What about them? Should they now complain because they're being grossly outclassed?
But look at the cameras on the phones of the people entering this competition. I was compiling a list of them just for curiosity's sake, and by the looks of it, these are people with multi-thousand-rand phones. They
could have gotten a cheaper smartphone and used the leftover money to get a compact or bridge camera, but they didn't, so they in a way have no right to complain about being outclassed in terms of gear. Look at ClintZA's Nokia N8's photos - those, for a phone as cheap as it is, are great. That phone costs R2.7k today. That's R4k+ saved over something like a Galaxy SII or iPhone to spend on an advanced compact, advanced bridge or even an entry level DSLR.
By the way, go look at
this competition. I was going to enter, but I stopped bothering, because the judges for it are insanely heavily biased towards wildlife photos largely because that's what they do - they're wildlife photographers. They know those kinds of photos and have a greater appreciation for what goes into them. That doesn't mean I would've stood a chance against the caliber of photos being submitted there even if that weren't the case, but it does mean that there's virtually no point in me trying there because I simply don't have access to interesting wildlife to go take photos of where I am and cannot afford to go out there to pursue wildlife to take photos of either.
Do I complain about it? No. I've moved on and have other photography competitions to try my hand at.
Yip, level playing field that 
