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No suggestions about how to immediately handle this? It's kind of stressing me out. There is already one entry which is in the wrong genre which will need to be dealt with. I won't be able to change the judging criteria after the jam ends in a little over a day, so it's getting urgent to make a decision.

One way I can deal with it is putting 5 criteria that are all called "followed the rules" and the judges will vote all of them as 1 if the game did not follow the rules, or all of them as 5 if it did. the only problem with that is that there are 5 otherwise useless criteria crowding up the judging results.

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Until a technical solution is available, try talking to the offending entrant. Point out they're in violation of the rules and you might have to disqualify their entry. If they're acting in good faith, they may withdraw by themselves, or else work out a compromise. And if they react rudely, well, then you can go ahead and disqualify them with an easy conscience.