echo the above, some lovely touches on the animation too!
I do have a few niggles though
a few things that I noticed but does not detract from the skin as a whole
catchment areas for the top vis:
the text valiant needs a white/black fill layer behind it set to 0/1% transparency so that you can click on a block as its possible to click inbetween the holes in the text and not trigger the anim, also on the Xion X too
btw did u get the idea for the water reflection from my Walpha skin? heheh
catchment areas for the top V:
same clickable issue as above
catchment area for play button:
its possible to highlight and trigger some sort of action if your still on the stop or pause buttons
main timer font:
looks great but suffers from non fixed width which just looks odd (would be in any skin), reallly hoping Cliff at some point adds in force fixed width for non fixed width fonts as the font market has approx 80% non fixed widths either that or params to split the timer up so a timercolon can be fixed position
drop shadow:
this skin would really benefit from a drop shadow, i dont believe drop shadows are done to death in any skin and this would really help to re-enforce the depth of the skin and perspective
colour themes:
altho the yellow is pretty striking and there is some use of changing the main background, some alternative colours would really bring the skin out and also make it user customisable to match to users desktops
these points are not meant to be negative, just things that would have made it truly exceptional, it deserved the 1st position in the competition without any doubt