Hello KrakenDev,
I encourage you to finish your game, as you would have done if you had had enough time, and publish it.
Last year my game Dr. Roland was disqualified because it looks too much like Nintendo's Dr. Mario.
After the natural disappointment, I let some time pass, and resumed development, fixing some bugs, polishing the controls, and adding more hazards.
Finally, about three months ago I published it here on Itch.io and CPCWiki, and it became a great success, for my humble career as a CPC video game developer :-)
It has been dowloaded more than 700 times, several youtubers have played online with it... and, currently I feel very proud of it.
So, go ahead ... let some time pass, and after that finish your game, as you like, and publish it.
Regards.
By the way, here it is Dr.Roland, in case you want to try (https://johnlobo73.itch.io/drroland)