FINISHING IT OFF
Tip #2 -- Extra Steps for a Top Score!

Click on [Meet] and check with each of your advisors.  If there are any negative comments from any of them, try to do things to correct that.

Although you may have been selling power and water and garbage disposal to your neighbors to make money.  If your pollution is borderline, and your city can now survive on it's own without the extra income, consider canceling these deals so that your pollution can decrease.

If the city budget can afford it, lower your tax rates.  Also look at canceling unpopular ordinances that you may have needed at one time for extra income.  Take every step you can to make sure your city is a happy wonderful place when you turn it in.  You may have had to have neighbor deals, unpopular ordinances, and/or higher taxes to get off and running, but maybe now your city can do without that.  Or, maybe you have enough cash reserves that your city can do without it for at least a few decades right before you turn it in to the judges! 

Query your Power Plants, Incinerators, Recycling Centers, Water Pumps, Water Towers, Water Treatment Plants, and so on.  All of these major utility items have a limited life.  If any are getting old, you should replace them now so that they don't fail while the judges are reviewing your city.

If you've changed the "landscape", "trees", or "building" options so that they appear differently, you may want to go into [Change Settings & Exit] and then [City Options] and set them all back to the default (far left option for each).  The judges have a lot of cities to review, and they may accidentally miss your factories or other important buildings if yours don't look like what they are use to seeing on all the other cities.

Don't confuse the judges!  Make sure the "City Name", the File Name on the disk, and the FutureCity name on your Computer Score Sheet are all the same.

Finally, [Meet] with the Advisors one last time, and go through the Judge's Rubric Score Sheet Guide one last time!

Lastly, turn your SimCity file and Computer Score Sheet in on time!  You can't get a top score if you have penalty points for being late!