This is a super unique song for a contest setting. You kinda remind me of Lich's style, but in a way that sounds both upbeat and crestfallen at the same time. It's a super cool atmosphere, granted I might be influenced by staring at the art a bit while listening to this. Unfortunately for me it's being held back by the mix. It's a tiring listen, and it sounds like there's a number of contributing factors. You've got some compressor abuse going on, which means that synths that our loudest in the mix are forced front and center, and anything that isn't loud is hid behind the main mix. This also means that what you have that's the loudest is the high frequency synths like your melody synth (I think) that starts fading in around 0:38. Now, your balancing is decent with all things considered, but now since you've squished your headroom, that means your melody synth has to carry the main force of the song, which causes an issue since it doesn't really change much and comes across as repetitive. I don't like saying that because I think it fits fine, but it really should be dialed back a hair so that you can develop each section more with what's surrounding it instead of the main synth. Which especially if you're going in with a trance style, you really want to focus on how you develop and move a song with what's in the background compared to what's front and center.

You also don't have your kick cutting through as much as I would like, similar to how a dubstep style kick would. That being said, you have great choice in percussion here. Another issue that you have that's contributing to a tiring listen is that you do have unchecked reverb contributing to the mix. Again, probably exacerbated by the fact that you're abusing your poor compressor in the main mix, but it is easy to have too much reverb which leaves you with a lot of sound contributing to your main mix that might not need to be there as prominently.

All in all, this has some great potential, and with some refinement it can be a really cool song to listen to. As it stands now, it's a little rough, but I really like it.

I would recommend a revisit to the instrument balance of this piece. The sound design is all great but the leads are really loud!

I also think the bass could be swapped out entirely for a hardstyle kick and better serve the piece. If not that, then something that approximates that overall sound profile. The bass is a bit spread out, dark, and muddy in comparison to the lead.

I can see something is going on with the master. It looks like there's quite a bit of reverb and low frequencies crowding out the bass, such that the falling synths/samples are also getting a bit lost. Try going at this later on down the line with a reference for the genre you're going for, and see if you can approximate those levels!

at 2:05 approx there is clipping going on before the master, perhaps on an instrument channel

Beyond that, the hook is quite catchy and I enjoyed the piece!