[Efalunt]

well what I'm unsure about is that it says "we will not be able to accept entries created in it"

To me this means they won't allow entries that are entirely/mostly created in Maya... but it doesn't strike me as forbidding the use of Maya for a model or two (which isn't all that much different than using downloaded models since those might've been made in 3ds Max, Maya, Rhino, etc).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to exploit a loop hole or anything here. It's just that there's a student on our team who knows Maya better than he knows Max, and I feel it would be a shame to force him to start from scratch and limit his contribution to the animation.

Anyway, I just wanted to get the community's opinion on this before we start modeling so that tasks can be allocated appropriately. I'm also contacting Autodesk to get a definitive answer, and I'll post their response here in case other teams have the same question.