Wookie, I refer you to the comments I made for synkotron and sausy1981, which are somewhat echoed by Batsbrew above.  I'm guessing the source materiel is somewhat bright to begin with?  Yours is the mix that would give me ear fatigue less.  It's drier and more in your face, and you've managed not to squash the hell out of it.  Congratulations to all of you that entered this contest!

Nice mix wookie, I went with a wetter vocal but that's just different tastes, I like how you gave the acoustic lead guitar some prominence, it made sense in context. Intimate vibe going on in this one, I like it. Good Job man.
Andrew

Thanks Bat appreciate your ears my friend.  Your assessment of the stems is right on the nail, the distorted guitar was/is just that distorted.
 
Thanks Lynn, the stems were strange a mix of Mono and Stereo even on the Kit, the snare bottom and the Tom's are stereo, Two of the 5 Vocal stems are stereo. All the Orch/synths stems are Stereo and 2 of the eight guitar stems are stereo as well.  The Bass is a mono DI stem which also had some distortion that needed to be softened off.
 
Thanks Andrew you did a nice job too

Going back and listening again, I think you had the best acoustic sound in the intro.  It was less trebly. I'm sure that's subjective but it is what I noticed.

That console emulator set to the N type does wonders and all Buses had the Tape emulator on as well.
 
Thanks for going back for a second listen Warren.  

Wookiee
That console emulator set to the N type does wonders and all Buses had the Tape emulator on as well.
 

Hehehe.....  "N" is all over my mix at the moment.   

Nice mixing work :)

Thank you Julian