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I like @johnbucket's idea. We could say the date when the subject will be released (say, a Saturday afternoon) and people would already know that, from that specific moment on, the challenge begins. People will have time to schedule and will not start composing without the subject. I've composed fugues in a day. It's totally ok. I'm in! o/ (I am totally in the mood of composing fugues, but I can't come with a convincing subject... maybe this challenge is everything I need)

I wont go that technical as Monarcheron.. I just casually listen to it... My feeling in the begining was that it was ok but I was expecting something to happen and not much were going on... The part around 1:20-1:30 was beautiful, like a climax... I would try to build it up a little more before ending... But overall I enjoyed the piece. Well done :)

More starts to come up near 1:10, but the sense of melody and harmony is kind of lacking up to that point. I was also confused as to why you ended on the subdominant chord instead of resolving, especially given the source of inspiration. The beginning may have had too much ebb and flow for my personal taste. That isn't so much a compositional issue as a sound design issue so not sure if you can fix that easily. You're skilled enough at chordal inversions to a point where you could use a lot more chords to build upon that. B diminished was a nice addition, but for example, you don't really use major dominants. It was quite pleasant! Keep it up.

Wow this is really great. I too enjoyed the second variation very much and really makes me want to step my game up!

*Sound of jaw dropping* Oh my God, one of the greatest work that I ever saw in the site. Definitely not a good piece of news for us competitors

Great theme selection, and wonderful variations. Considering the season I especially enjoyed the 3rd which has a lovely Christmas/Holiday sound. For me anyway.

This is impressive. Nice work! Coincidentally you posted this the day after I went through and listened to all the Brahms symphonies again. They're all brilliant, though I would disagree that they don't have many memorable themes. I mean his wind solos (particularly in symphony no 2) and especially his brilliant cello solos (3 & 4) are pretty memorable I would say.

Well, I know who the early frontrunner is. These are amazing. I especially like the second variation, sounds like something Mahler would write and extremely neat to use the rest of the movement as part of the coda within the last variation.