Yeah, I don't see this being a good idea for much outside of Loungin', myself.

I mean, you may get more and better entries for a header contest than you would in a game forum, but I've always thought half the appeal of the contest was to see what others you knew from that forum could do. And for a good deal of other contests, only those in the original forum would have any interest in it, and it could be hosted there just as easily as it could here.

But it will be interesting to see whether I'm proved wrong.

That is true, things like forum awards probably shouldn't be here because those are specifically for those already in that forum. I still think header and footer contests should be advertised here though.

This forum works well as a a place to advertise local forum events, but it has bags of potential which are currently shelved. It could certainly use some spicing up.

I'm thinking that more things like Gamers Choice Awards would be ideal. I'm sure that we'd all like to see more Site-wide events which anyone is free to participate in.