I'm not sure it was a question of taking the contest seriously, though I have no idea what one's intentions are. I think it was simply a matter of some of us taking the theme literally and thinking the ONLY thing that matters is that it sounds weird. And it's hard to make a normal "song" sound weird unless you're really, really good at doing that. I think people genuinely felt that their best chance of winning was to do just what they did, throw a bunch of sounds together.
As for your style, talent, whatever you want to call it, I'd someday love to hear you do a "typical" rock song. I think it would be very good as it's obvious you can play. Just once, do something that sounds like the Stones, Led Zep, hell, even Aerosmith. I think you'd shock the hell out of a lot of people.