Competition Looks Cool And Organized But I Am Not Sure. Help?

So yesterday i was browsing through thecomposerssite.com and i came across the second edition of the Maurice Ravel International Composition Competition. (http://www.composerssite.com/opportunity/6508)

They look very well organized, i searched them up, looked up for their website and they really exist. However i am still not sure if its legit or not. From what i found on the web they look waaay too small an organization to be able to host such a big competition. Also did not find any videos/pictures related to last year's competition.

What do you guys think? Did you ever heard of this competition? Did you participate? ...Do you think its legit?

If its not, there is also the "Karol Szymanowsky" competition, in which the page is filled with videos covering the event.

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.)

If there's no fee and you have something that qualifies do it. Don't pay to enter a contest. Like, ever.

A lot of competitions are done on a very small scale. The new music world is a very small world after all. A lot of these organizations that are single composer focused are often even smaller than most. The site and competition looks legit to me, however if you don't feel 100% about it I wouldn't enter. There are plenty of other competitions to enter.