as for the competition (i can’t only barely remember reading the post so sorry if I remember wrong!) I believe it required getting friends to sign up for the forum? I don’t think it was well recieved because, well for me at least, I rarely do the “sign up a friend” thing. For one, none of my friends are into blogging (except for private journals) and for other services, it feels like I’m spending my friend spam. If I like something, I’ll probably mention it in my own email.

As for competitions I would enter… ones that you get to answer in comments is probably the best, and opinion based like your current one.