I'm not much of a sprite person but I tried alot of smudging, and seeing as how I haven't done that in quite some time it wasn't good.
The smudging doesn't really go with the red and white circles and the render really doesn't fit the BG either. I would add one or two effect C4d's and change the colors so they all match. The way you smudged around the sprite looks good and I like to the right of the sprite how it has that red spike or whatever in there. Good overall sig but it just needs a little TLC mixed with CnC. Spoiler Welcome to ForgeHub!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also I hope I didn't come off as too harsh. If I did I'm sorry.