Hey ! Thanks for the reply buddy and appreciate the positivity. A lot is riding on this and waiting is definitely the hard part and is causing a lack of sleep and stress 
I raced with the quickness to put everything together after the announcement and got it submitted the following day. I’m sure they got a lot of emails as this news spread liked wildfire across the internet following their announcement. The hardest part is not knowing if it was received and if it happened to slip through by accident, I would have to reapply and it’s going to unfortunately go to the back of the line after all the submissions that came since. I hope they made it into day 2 of submissions during last week but its possible day 1 was that immense that it took Thursday, Friday and the following week to process. Either way, I’m trying to stay positive on this and keep my fingers crossed for the Twitch Stream in the morning (if announcements come then). I’m hoping that the judges were using some private browsing mode that didn’t log the additional views. My fingers are crossed for you too bud and else here that submitted! 