...drew approx. 2600 (!) submissions. All these were manuscripts of complete full-sized novels by unpublished authors. 20 of these made round 2 and can be reviewed currently.

As I mentioned before, I was not able to participate, but I posted a rewritten version of sections 1-4 of my "Pillar Island" MS nonetheless. (The first version appeared here in this thread below.)

I got some very interesting reviews. If anyone is interested, the reqritten text plus the reviews are here.