That lighting is tough to deal with. In that case, you might have wanted to actually make a silhouette out of the pic. As it stands, the sky is much brighter than the subject, but the subject retains enough detail to make it look imperfect. Good capture, though.
The lighting is a bit off in this one - it could work as a silhouette, but there's too much detail - I know it's hard to get things like this right with time of day/rain/clouds. Maybe a flash would have worked.
I would say that the guys on these bikes might be team players, but that's just me. The photo is dark, and the composition crop cuts the left too closely. I like the clouds though.
Quite dark, good capture at getting them when they are going so fast. Not sure about connection to the theme though - it was pretty specific about "without players".
Awesome action depicted here. I love the dirt ... I don't like the inclusion of the riders though because they're not supposed to be in the picture as the challenge says: Creatively capture the notion of any team sport without photographing the players themselves.