Ugh, that's sooo lame!
If you enter those costumes again next year, and if it's the same people running it, I'll have a word with them. I'm friends with them (and no, despite what some people might think, it's not rig; cause I didn't win lol [nor did I expect to]) and so next year I'll get them to hold a spot for you, because I think that was really unfair. Had I have known the list was full, I would have backed out and let you have my spot... Because I just entered for shiggles and to kill time sort of thing (that and I haven't entered a contest in a while, I'm usually busy running them or other things at other cons, and CCEE is the only one I can enter because I don't run it... lol).
So yeah, if you want to try again for next year, lemme know and I'll tell them to save a spot for you...