The reason is stated in sheet the instruction / R&R / terms & conditions, for benefit of those who missed that point printed, allow me to explain here.
Eye E City hold exhibition every year, for those photos selected, they are printed in the size of 12" x 18", some of the photos submitted for the cat of photo essay & eye challenge are also printed in various size. I am quite sure most of the participants who had join this event more than once knows about the exhibitions and the size of which the photos are printed.
Also, stated in that paper, iirc, as well as during the registration, committees do explain to participants that Eye E City do not own copy rights, it belongs to the participants, at least I do explain to 1st timers (I was at counter 3 this year). Those who had participated more than once, i am not sure why they dont know this. Eye E City will only use the photos for the publicity material of the event itself.
Last point to add here, all CDs, negatives and printed photos are return to participants. Those who participated 2008 whose photo/s were printed for the exhibition and still have not collected them, sorry, the photos were thrown away yesterday.
Btw, I used Canon G2 this year. Being a 9yrs old 4mp digital compact camera, is it be consider as low end ah?