As of now, no you can't. This is a pygame only competition. I've had quite a few requests for pyglet, so its concievable that I'll let pyglet be used in the future.
> Can I create a bitmap and store it as a string in the code, then do a fromstring to load it to a surf, or do I literally have to use the drawing functions of pygame/pyglet? I figured the filesize limitation
was because this was allowed.
Nope. You have to use the drawing functions of pygame. I wrote an ImageToString script that lets you draw images in the code itself. Everything in the game must be done with pygame.
> Do I have to compete on the exact day? I'm not sure why you scheduled it for a Friday, because I have a lot more time on the weekends for programming. Or is it 11:59:59 Friday night that the competition starts?
Yes, you need to compete then. It will start Friday night, but not quite that late. (probably around 7:30 PM, but not for sure yet) Oh and to answer another question, the time zone that the times will be set at is Central Standard Time (CST)