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5) Is this based on a CharOp build? This is supposed to be your creativity. I don't want to see a dozen variants on the 'ubercharger' or Cindy or the Mailman. Besides, CharOp is the antithesis of this category anyways. Anything smacking of CharOp... probably won't do well in this category.

Elegance isn't just doing this, it's doing this and making it look effortless. Think of it as style points, if you will. Some kludgy build containing half a dozen classes, with 'early entry' or otherwise shady means of qualifying for them, isn't very stylish, no matter how powerful it may be.
I would like to disagree with you on this. While yes, it is inelegant to mirror a char-op build, making your own build to optimize an odd concept can still be powerful as well as elegent. Optimising isn't the antithesis of elegance, it is simply more difficult to manage both at once.