I would be in again. The contest kept me much more up to date on posting my hunts than I would of otherwise.
If the prizes were a distraction, I would vote for some type of small random prizes more along the lines of participation than judging based on quality.
If someone keeps up with their thread then they get entered in for a drawing that week. If they don't keep it updated then they don't get entered for a drawing that week.
There are for sure different ideas on what people like the most in the contest, I like seeing the planning, deciding on gear, etc. that goes into a hunt. If we have a 2011 hunt challenge this year I was planning on describing the application process and deciding on which states I was applying, etc.
Sounds like that would bore some people to tears though.
To me that was the difference between the hunt challenge and just posting the narrative on a specific hunt in the appropriate forum when you score on an animal.
Oh well, a very long winded way to say "a 2011 Hunt Challenge sounds great."