This might be karma for them not allowing Chopin or Rach concerti as options for the final round. And they only allowed one movement, let it be a whole concerto performance for goodness's sake.
But they had really high quality pianists. I remember Dr. Michael Slavin delivered one of my favorite Ravel le Tombeau de Couperin performances. Sean Sutherland had played a Kapustin sonata I'd not listened to before and you'd see legit creative programmes all the time. Also the only amateur competition that used high quality footage and mics for the recordings.