What did you think, that you would get 2 hours.
Most mixing competitions will grant you 15-20 minutes to show your skills (in turntablism that's 5-6 minutes). Why do they do that?
Mainly to check on your technique. It's easier to get a perfect beatmatch if you let the tunes play out completely. They probably want to see if you can beatmatch fast and accurately. You should be able to fit 4-5 tunes in this time though.

Yeah of course, it's impossible to build a journey in the proper term in 15 minutes, but most of the time, you'll have to take over from the guy before you (well at least all the competitions I did worked that way, you got penalized when you weren't able to make a decent mix over the tune from your predecessor, that way they could probably immediately check if you prepared a set or are just mixing on the fly). But it's still possible to build kind of a mini-journey.

Most importantly, be original, but only do it if you are sure you can do it and are sure it sounds good. It's better to skip a trick than to try it and fail miserably...

As for the CDJ, the difference with TT's isn't THAT big. But if you feel unsure, feel free to visit www.pioneerprodj.com and go to the product description pages of the cdj's, the manuals are there for reading

indeed, its about fast mixng not a journey.. 1 more freaking day till i have my tables back.....

You can lay down at least 4-5 tracks within 15 min time, even with Trance. Creativity is what counts there, not just blending the outro of one track into the intro of the next. Pick some tracks that aren't just all screeching synth lines and work with those.

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Harmonic mixing seems to do it very good lately. Try to find tunes that match in chords with each other, always impresses the judges

or pull some break beat remixes off some of your trance vinyls.. if u got any..