Ug, it's so horrible when you have the 'perfect' animal but someone already has it. I have taken it upon myself for Gryff to make announcements in the CR when the post goes up and then with about 5 days left (because most of us don't do it before then anyway) so that helps to remind me/us when everything is due. Have you thought about doing one a day for a week? Sometimes breaking them up works really well. I tend not to do more than 3 Platform apps at once so I really don't do all the Animagus apps at once (though I do submit all at once).

Kerri//Gryffindor