Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24183436-20131118140639/@comment-16502426-20140105041953

He said he would be spending his Christmas judging velvet designs, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.

If it takes him 1 minute per entry to find say, the top 50% of entries, that's already over 22 hours of work. And then to progress beyond that probably takes considerably longer per entry. I'd guess by this point he's probably at the very least least got it down to under 50.

He might even have chosen a winner for all we know. They never said that they would necessarily announce the winner, did they? Maybe the idea is for nobody to know until they see it in the show...

Ps. I sure hope he didn't instantly throw mine away because it was a pencil scan... It wasn't brilliant, but I'd like to think it was decent.