I guess I wasn't fooling anyone with my previous journal post: yes, 4E5 is almost upon us, and I've spent the past couple of days working on nothing but. It's really getting something of a makeover this year - a proper logo, a full minisite, revamped backend... even banner ads. Hopefully Melissa will be OK with the approach I've taken and will let me put it into the site's ad rotation, but if not I'll put it up here.

My original target date for the start of the contest was June 1st, but that's two days away and the site's not gone up yet. I'd like to have it up for a few days before actually announcing the themes so that it can gather some publicity, but we'll see - if I get it up tomorrow then I might still hit the date.

I don't want to say too much about things until the site goes up, but the judging schema has been completely revamped, and the min spec is definitely better than last year.