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Is the rule that no portion of the symphony may be started before the start of the competition related to ideas started during the decision process of what the competition would be, works in progress, or previous posted works in the forum?

If you have brief sketches and ideas for the lay-out of your symphony that you devised during the decision process, I think these should be admitted. If a piece is in progress and has been so for a few months (or years) these should only be accepted granted you post new material and not finished works (finished before the competition). And if pieces are previously completed and posted in this forum, they should not be allowed at all.

I think this makes it fair enough, and policing this matter should only be a matter of honor system, much as we police fraudulant works from being posted as well.

Nico- You are gifted enough to begin writing a fresh symphony much as we have the talent to do the same. All is fair that way.