The first thing I want to say is - thank you for this contest, this opportunity and this composition!
This piece is incredible to me because of it's structure - it's a multi-movement work condensed into one track.

The tag line of this competition is "perform your own rendition of the song". The song is over 5 minutes long - so why impose a 2:30 time limit?

I don't think we're going to see much more than the opening theme varied with such a short time limit. Perhaps the limit was put in place for fear of judging duration - but you've got less than 10 entries... For a nearly 2 month long deadline for submission - it seems a bit ridiculous to limit the submission duration to 2:30 - especially so given that the base piece we're to be re-working is over 5 minutes itself..