If the success of Whirly, AerBabe and FFF inspires other PPRuNers to have a go next year that would be really excellent.
Let us suppose you have a good idea, do good research and planning, the flying goes well and you achieve most of what you intended so you have high hopes for your entry. May I suggest that the log will probably determine whether you finish up in the top group or not.
David Hamilton and his team of judges (who are appointed by the Chief Judge HRH The Duke of Edinburg) have quite a task sorting out an order of merit from entries that are often very different. So the rules are the place to start when you come to do your log. Look at the points allocation that is spelt out there. If you do not clearly arrange your log to enable the judges to get the information they need to allocate the various points you will not do so well.
Some of the points are for quantitative issues – the planned versus the achieved distance would be an example. If you were a judge and it took you 45 min digging through a mass of poorly presented data and then the prolonged use of a calculator to work out those two numbers as opposed to finding them spelt out in a well indexed log how would you feel?
One of the big qualitative issues concerns airmanship. Some very experienced professional pilots enter and they probably apply a very high standard of airmanship to the dozens of decisions about ATC, weather, serviceability (or what have you) as the flight goes on. But how does a judge know this if the flight narrative part of the log hardly exists? Certainly when I read a log I look to be able to join the crew from my arm chair and relive their experience. How else can you award points for airmanship?
Good luck if you decide to have a go.