Hi, your contest seems interesting, but I'm puzzled a little with the templates, it's kind of impossible to implement the design on the templates with adobe, if you accept designs to be for a ball print or in any basic shape (circle or square) not as in templates I would participate definitely?

Go ahead and make it on a ball shape and then you can get it on the templates if you win.

Added image that shows the panels on the basketball. Final submission would have to include the design in these separated panels.