I'd like to see more specific contests... some of these are very specific.
Broad contests are great but specific ideas push people to go at the same project from different angles... and they can be judged more fairly. Since the contests would be more specific, the judging would be more specific as well...
of course, the broad scoped contests we've been having lately usually bring in more entries as more people are able to contribute...
perhaps we should have a few "just for fun" contests...
or even some "VS" contests where several people all sign up for matches, then we battle it out in very specific challenges until one customer is crowned the champion, no prizes except the title?
in fact... I realy like that idea. Having some kind of competition lined up where we have people enter their names into a "pot". Out of that pot they are lined up, bracket style, against a random component. They are given a month to complete a SPECIFIC custom character or idea and the winner of that match-up moves on to the next bracket. This continues for however long it takes until there are only 2 or 3 customizers left and they duke it out over an epic finale custom project....
In this senario I think a panel of impartial judges (at least 3) should be named for the entire run so that it doesn't turn into a popularity contest making it unfair to any match-ups...