Possible Clues:

• List of candidates for admission
• It may be forced
• Might the carp find its way into the wood with this?
• Contest submission (with the following space)
• A carp might get this on the way in for woodwork
• Competitors - way in
• Record number competing
• The carp might find no way out of this because of the woodwork
• Record making competitor
• The carp would, by the sound of it, work with this on the way in