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I would offer to be a judge, but I'm sure I'd be much too biased against anything not set to text. Kinda like judging a piano composition competition where some entrants submit pieces that only use one finger on each hand - Don't get me wrong, certainly these entries would not be invalid, but I'd have a tendency to dismiss them out of hand because they don't really take advantage of what the instrument is capable of. In the case of choral works, a piece submitted with no text (say other than oos and ahs) gives me no idea of whether or not the composer even understands the subtleties of scoring text.
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