With regards to the panels, typically the panelist are doing the high-level review (as they have dozens of proposals to go through and there is simply not enough time) and they rely on the detailed reviews from chosen experts (though they are free to ignore them to some extent. Diligent as the panelist often are, they typically are only able to provide in-depth insights to a limited number of the proposals (unless there was a call with a very limited and specialized scope).

Agree completely with the rest.

Another proposal has now be submitted... this one was a bit shorter.

Well, good luck with that one. I got two in the races and two more to submit *sigh*.

Edited December 10, 201411 yr by CharonY

Best of luck to you both seeing as there seems to be a strong element of it.