Oh, there's always a way to have such contests as the GUI Champs etc here....

And it's NOT about enticing participation via the offering of prizes....and 'preferably' money....

It's about actually stepping up to the plate YOURSELF.

Say... " I want to propose a skinning contest....and here's $X.00  fronted up as prize money to make it happen.

There's ALWAYS this expectation/presumption that the ubiquitous "They" will 'do it', whatever 'it' is.

Sometimes it's simply YOUR time to be counted...and put back into your community something  of what you get out of it.

'Some' people do that....in one way or another.....but others simply leave it to 'them'.

To everyone else in your community ...YOU YOURSELF are one of the 'them'.

Most [if not all] of you are over 18 ...have some form of gainful employment [beyond skinning], and yet appear to NEED a carrot on a stick as incentive to create work for a contest?

It's frankly a sad state of affairs when people simply opt out because the prizes offered are what.....too bland?

And you wonder why the GUI Champs seem to have faded into obscurity.   They're simply not appreciated by the people they are hosted for.

[edit]....forgot to point out...theAVMAN got it right in #13.   That's what I mean....