No, we do not say in our rules that stories may not be zipped because we never imagined encountering the situation. I've consulted the mods of four other awards, one of which has been going on for ten years and they've never heard of such a thing.

HOWEVER, I can understand your frustration. So here is what I will offer you. We will allow the nominations to stand - with the understanding that should you wish to participate in any future rounds you'll need to arrange for a plain text version for people to access that doesn't involve downloading- I'd suggest one of the Forever Knight comms on LJ - there are probably people who haven't read your work that would be excited to read it there.