Keep the rule! I hunt by myself all the time and its not hard to take a quick selfie pic or wait till you get home. It doesn't have to be the pic you keep as a dang memory just one for the contest. This rule prevents the morons that like to cheat on a free (bragging rights) contest from doing so. Either way though I would still enter the contest as I like to see how real hunters do across the country instead of the TV "hunters". As far as the lack of participants go it was probably cause of the late start to the contest this year. Just a guess though