Submitting for contest

Well, call me late, but I just filled out the developer contest registration form (or did I already long ago? I can't remember), and it mentions a contest forum, but at the end of the registration includes a link to the developer forum, so I'm not sure if it's actually a separate forum and I haven't gotten added yet, or if it's the developer forum. In any case, my question is about the submission process.

In all the information I've seen so far, it says to upload the channel and click submit. Not having uploaded a public channel, and unsure as to whether my account is yet to be modified through the registration, I'm unsure if I should just publish a public channel, or if some extra option to submit into the contest will be added for my account.

Can someone clue me in?