All, My thoughts are already turning to the Winter competition and how that may be run. There was talk about having some restrictions. At this time, I don't have a real preference, so I'd love to hear what others think. I seem to recall that a few others firmly believe that restrictions can drive creativity. I do think we need to do more to help drive participation, not necessarily for entries, but for judging. I wonder if there was more time for people to play the games would that help? Could we offer a prize to be given to a random person (non-designer) who provides rankings and comments for 75% of the games? The prize could be some more icehouse pyramids perhaps a rare color like pink if it is available by then, or gray? We'd do well to try and tap the PrintAndPlay community if we can find some good instructions for making paper pyramids. That lot loves free games and seems to be reasonably large. If we ran any sort of contest on BGG, we could even give away GG, which can drive participation. Thoughts? -Jason Spears