Finally had a chance to go through these. It's really great to see many of you doing sore really great work!
I would find this difficult to judge. Deception can be from a series of intricate shuffles where it's amazing to think that someone is controlling the card, but also deception can be when it looks like nothing was done at all, or as Lennart Green exemplifies deception can be in chaos.
Whatever direction they decide, you all have done some great work that would fool most laypeople!
Good luck everyone!
(and Eric W.(9) - very nice thumb card pirouette!)