Fair enough. Here's my list, anyway. I assemble it every year anyway, as a tool for gift seekers. Might as well use it here too:
http://abadoss.livejournal.com/248457.html
I was introduced to it when my friend Juverna got one of her mixes posted in 2001. I've been listening ever since... Holy crap, that was nine years ago!
Hmm... Hey zircon. You're a professor now, right? Have you thought about leading a scoring and arranging type class here on OCR? (I could help, if you'd like.)
I'm not a judge, but the best bet would be to read some of the decisions in the Judges Decisions forum. It's a pretty long history of the kinds of things they look for.