As far as I know it doesn't have to be LEB-only. I think they'll also accept one or two LEB plans (128MB and 256MB) and the rest out of the LEB range. We also don't need more RAM racers. It's becoming increasingly harder to find new providers offering 128MB annual plans.
This is just a price to help somebody to get started. The rules only say that you may continue to use their servers after the competition, it doesn't say you have to, AFAIK. Also, as much as I like you, the constant CC hate is boring and it's getting old.
I really look forward to the responses as well. I think this is a great way to get somebody started, especially somebody with a solid plan but without the financial means to pick this up themselves. I'm also hoping that by using community voting, we won't end up with such a bad situation as we did last year. He (the winner of last year's competition) kept postponing everything, always had an excuses and eventually started blaming CC for it.
and.. maybe a dedicated server along the way.. But yeah, this competition from CC is a really great one for someone who has the knowledge, but not the finances. 
The whining about it from people who are either on their payroll or who's business depends on their wellbeing is getting far older. Walk it off.
Heaven forbid someone's business relies on someone elses business.
There is no guarantee that the winner won't do the same thing again because the community votes on it.
Liam added a clause to the terms of the competition saying you have 30 days from time of announcement to claim your prize. At least that way, things should be provisioned and start counting against the 6 months - not just "I'm doing some testing on nodes I've paid for out of pocket and I'll launch after I take 27 vacations and finish my doctorate"
You know it sucks that the last winner didn't do it but I can't blame him. Within < 1 year the market has gone from 2GB plans being over the top to 4GB+ plans becoming the next norm. It isn't like 256GB+ boxes are run of the mill cheap or something, it's just with ChicagoVPS' DB leaking twice now it has shown people just how far you can oversell it and not melt.
So to clarify, I made one post about that yesterday and two of you feel the need to complain about it today. Remind me who is beating a dead horse. 2 > 1
What kind of sandwiches?
The kind that go on bread
Haha, my dayjob for the time being, is at Subway.
Take this as a compliment,The kind that go on bread
I could chew on your meatballs all day...The kind that go on bread
This is now a thread about sandwiches.
Oh lee. You had to say that.
Cause you guys don't have halal meat and that patty tastes pretty good. YUMM!
Fekkin Asians...
Why would I want to offer 128MB at a price point where it's not worth it to me, when I can offer 512MB at a price point that makes sense instead?
128MB VPS's still have a lot of uses. I have one from Buyvm and another from Minivps for DNS, ok they are hardly big money plans at $15/$20 a year but neither get tickets from me about them, very low maintenance for both sides. So not all have the same abuse/support loads.
Good point, but a lot of people don't need more. And after they are realizing that a small Raspberry Pi with 800Mhz can run their whole website with a load of 0.1 they don't want to spend 5$ a month for something they do not use.
"Muslims".