Okay, first of all, my winning entry saber...sort of.
It's a Dark Menace in EG (although it looks quite different to my other EG, a stunt Dark Apprentice LE), but it didn't stay in stock configuration for long. I present Project: Undercover, the clandestine operations saber:

Yeah, it's about 1/8 to 1/4 inches longer than an Apprentice V2, WITH full Obsidian V4 sound and QDs. I went for the non-Emerald, non=recharge Dark Menace body to squeeze the size down as much as I could, after my experiments earlier this year with a Dark Menace fitted with a Flamberge emitter ring. I felt that was too shallow a blade socket, at 1 inch, so to go with the smallest Dark Menace body I could get, I also got an MHS Scorpion pommel, the neck of which got pressed into service in between the saber body and the Flamberge emitter ring.
This saber is TINY, for a full-featured saber. It measures exactly 9" from the face of the emitter to the end of the pommel, a half inch shorter than the US listed dimensions of the Initiate V3, and 7/8" shorter than the Initiate V4, and it does that with STYLE. Just the sort of thing an undercover Jedi (or Sith) could hide on their person, and it's the perfect one handed saber. The threaded holes for the regular knurled buttons will get filled with low profile button screws or something similar.
My prize is to receive another Scorpion to go with the one I recently bought, but different in that it's the Crimson model, has the claw, has no recharge port, and has a guarded switch. Oh, and it's RGBW instead of my other Scorpion's RGBA. Yeah, that's right, I got lucky enough to get a 4-channel instead of a 2-channel on a 1st prize saber. I scored, and scored big, with this.

So, soon I'll get to do a double Scorpion video review, which should be fun, and I got to have some of the options I passed on with my other one, such as the claw.
Also today, I received my "beater" stung Dark Apprentice staff, in Tri-AS, which I'll be using with LEE filters, for the most part.
It has been a heck of a Revenge of the Fifth.