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One of the world record holders was made by Ken Blackburn. Here is the design:
http://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-airplanes/08-the-champ.html

For those that remember Glider (video), the old paper airplane game for Mac, the author offers the OS X version for free here:
http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html

I invented a design that sounds like yours. Basically I do this design: http://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-airplanes/03-the-arrow.html and do a third fold before folding the wings. It makes an extremely fast plane with a deadly sharp point. It won't hold up in a pure distance competition unless you can throw it very fast, but it is accurate and has very low drag.

I had to do one like that as well, 2 sheets of paper, a straw, all the tape you wanted, but it had to use the straw, and had to have two "1 inch wide rings" connected by the straw.

I made an arrow cut two rings out of the long side of the second sheet, and then folded the rest up into a tight ball. Wrapped the ball in most of a roll of tape. Tapped the straw down the center of the plane, taped the ball to the front, and threw it like a nerf foot ball. went far and straight. same as you, got "the outside the box" award, despite winning.

http://www.10paperairplanes.com/how-to-make-paper-airplanes/08-the-champ.html

Might not win a competition, but I've always liked this design. Looks way cool when flying.

The Ring.

My favourite is actually nothing like anything you have on your site, but more similar to this one, only you make it diagonally across the paper so that it (a) has a longer extension at the rear bottom but almost none at the top, which seems to make it more stable somehow and (b) has a larger diameter. I've flown one made from an A3 sheet over a distance of about 60-70m (large lecture theatre) and it is beautifully slow and graceful.