community challenge stress

I keep checking the Creative Court April challenges because I'm excited about having signed up. And I enjoyed making the sig tags that I managed for one of them. But, man. Every time I go to look at the other rounds, I get so stressed because I just don't understand how they work. They clearly seem easy enough to follow for others, but the points for each thing. Trying to figure out what counts towards the monthly theme or not. Whether or not it counts if you use the textures and colors, if the media itself isn't based around the theme?

I've got zero idea. I did make a pretty icon with the provided textures, but have nothing to do with it because I don't know how to go about submitting it.

Idk, I'm just kinda bummed that I'm having trouble following along with something that's obviously pretty simple.