The most up-itself piano competition

From the rules of the Prague Spring Festival Competition 2016 – Piano – In Memory of Rudolf Firkušný:

Candidates who document that they have won the 1st prize in one of the following competitions need not submit a recording:

• 2015 The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
• 2015 The Leeds International Piano Competition
• 2015 The Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition
• 2015 The International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition Moscow
• 2014 The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv
• 2013 The International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz
• 2013 The Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition
• 2013 The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth
• 2012 The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition

Well, that will greatly reduce the flood of applications…