well I'm very sorry to have offended you all with my terribly narrowminded explanation, but that is what i see winning the 2.0 comps. maybe everyone has just found a good formula, and maybe 80Y is breaking ground, but I really haven't seen something like his shot win a comp since I've been here (not long, bit still).
Maybe you should all check your own selves, and what or who you vote for, before calling me or Skyline narrowminded? Last I checked, you guys make more shots than me, you enter more competitions than me, and you guys swing the trends of what is used more than me. If i am to be blamed for my definition of a good 2.0 shot, then you (the very guys I look up to when it comes to photomode) are to be blamed for making it that way.
I also hope you will all notice that i and skyline both liked 80Y's shot. I very much like it. it's a nice refresh from the norm in the 2.0 that I've seen around here.( IE: good colour, motion blur, sharp car, car cleaned, reflections added), but I simply do not think that it would win if we weren't having this conversation. it would be written off as "too blurry" or "not composed right" or some such friggin thing, when it really IS a quality shot.