Frankly there probably wasnt any time for resubmitance. However- I know that In the North East Conf- There was one animation played on a seperate tape "because it was a late submission" Was how it was explained to us. I didnt say anything because Autodesk messed up so many other things that I didnt want a team to have to suffer. If you were DQ'd for the Stillframe issue, music Issues, or length issues- then so be it. These were all in the rules. Did you submit a filled out entry form and submit story boards? These are all called for in the rules as well.
BTW- last year i recieved the review of scoring from the judges (you know the comments you can request from autodesk- I dont know how they will handle this this year) One Judge marked that the story boards were not submitted, but I know for a fact that they were. And none of the other 6 or 8 or however many judges seemed to have that comment- so who knows what they did with them.
I'd contact that autodesk email address
firstentries@autodesk.com (I think) And ask them point blank, "What was the problem?"
PS: when you do a 30 sec commercial for TV- You can't be .0000000000000002 sec over! its always better to be slightly under. But I doubt that was the cause of any DQ.