There are four, perhaps as many as nine corpses in my story, depending on how you count. The four have detail, mood and plot impact, all that. I could have gone further, but I certainly believed the requirement "One or more corpses must play a crucial role" was fully met. They changed the protag's intentions and mindset, and made the protag feel remorse and regret before circling into anger without lapsing into a caricature of it. Their impact led to a change in the landscape, literally.
The notion of voting for/against "corpse level" is frustrating looking back, and disconcerting looking forward, because I seem to view requirements like these unlike everyone else. To my mind, it was like the page count - a pass/fail that is met or not. To me, trying to compare and then voting on the degree of saturation is as absurd as voting one story over another because it had more words (or fewer), "more fully meeting the requirement."

There is a gray area on the periphery, where the topic is raised and then ignored, an obvious "check the block" approach. I was nowhere near that line.

I am competitive, perhaps more so than most of the others here. That said, in a writing contest, I do not mind losing to more entertaining writers. Far from it - they make me better and teach me with every story I read, analyze, discuss, or critique - and I get to enjoy their talents for free at the same time. That said, I am competitive. And though I do not mind losing a race to faster runners - it is infuriating to hear my sneakers weren't regulation, or some similarly petty thing when I met the requirement.
People will vote how they're going to vote, and there's no accounting for taste. I followed Nora's point in our voting debate(s) and casted one vote for Hoy Girl, because Jmack's use of language was difficult and superbly done, and although I know he doubted his level of action, I enjoyed the character study of the girl, and it touched me in a quiet way that no one else's story did. With subtlety.
I feel better already.