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Non-notable newsgroup pleasantry, everybody who has heard of the competition has entered it. No considerable coverage outside of special interest publications related to the Spectrum. Wenttomowameadow (talk) 08:11, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. WP:PAPER and I fail to see what would be gained by deleting this article. There is no need to be a killjoy. Besides, the fact that the competition has been running for some 15 years now and continues to attract a considerable number of entries every year indicates that it isn't on the same level as 'things made up in school one day'. Sure, it may not appear in reliable sources; but that's common of Internet culture, and it's more notable than you think. Conflict disclosure: I have entered it a couple of times. PT (talk) 00:22, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Addendum: The exact quote from the RetroGamer Roundup is as follows
"[we've got] here a link to the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition from 2010, that's a newsgroup that's been running an annual contest for some time to create awful games on the Spectrum; well they don't need to create awful games, there were some already made and available for sale, I think you'll find, Dizzy not being one of them."
"I'm looking at the video he's posted for the crap games, and I don't know why, but there's about a ten-minute section of a flashing logo (I guess someone's quite proud of their logo), and then like one second of gameplay. But yeah I'm gonna have to bookmark that"
I've put this here because it's rather tedious to find, appearing about 5 hours in to a 6 hour audio file. I'm not claiming that it establishes notability, just making the questioned evidence more readily available. PT (talk) 00:49, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]