Just so it's clear, as far as I know no one did it, I was merely stating don't let people do it this year or the years ahead. It's basically like having a cooking competition and ordering take out for your entry. 
I agree with that assessment, but unless somebody does something really outrageous (like have their car piggybacked on the space shuttle), as long as it's done well, we'll never know. Another factor is that the act of recording or scanning an image changes the image, so how do you count using Photoshop to adjust exposure elements like contrast or brightness that were washed out during a scan? Is there any difference between using Photoshop to change these values versus using a darkroom (which Ansel Adams did to get the values that he wanted in his final prints)?
This is a big deal in competitive photography shows. Because they realize my first point, many of them have two broad categories, one for traditional and one for digital. Most of the smaller shows just lump them all together, because they know they'll never be able to figure it out without a lot of time spent in investigation. Bottom line is that if somebody who's halfway good with Photoshop wants to use it and say they didn't, most people would never recognize it, and there are always some folks who want to win more than they want to follow the rules.
