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Competitions generally are to pick an architect rather than a scheme, aren't they? Otherwise, trying to build out a design that was thrown together during a few all-nighters and too many coffees is a recipe for disaster.

Design competitions should provide applicants with an opportunity to demonstrate their approach, not to present a design to be taken forward.

Obviously any entry which completely disregards the parameters of the brief should be discarded.

The problems with the projects mentioned above is not that they were procured through a competition per se, but that the competition process itself was deeply flawed.