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And yet another great theme comes forth.

Hmmm... if you haven't heard of it and it isn't bothering to do much advertising of past participants, even if it isn't an outright scam, it still may be a waste of time and money. The general rule of life is no one knows and no one cares. Your grandma will be excited for you if you win any contest, but she probably has no ability to offer you a scholarship or program your work in her November concert. If you want to try entering some contests, maybe it's better to reverse engineer the whole thing. Go look at other up-and-coming composers and see what they are entering/have won. It's the age of the internet and people brag about that stuff. If they won it, they'll mention it. If you start to see a pattern between composers you like who are a few years older than you and awards they won five or ten years ago, that probably tells you those contests are worth entering because they have quality applicants, and/or winning has actually helped someone's career along due to good advertising by the contest holder or general prestige of the award. (Hence, you've actually heard of this guy and his music now.)