While Clay and Agentsmith fight it out with or without cyber-critters, let me clarify a few things about a Gurus contest (going by Photoshop Gurus contest). - Anybody can participate. It is on winning the particular category or the overall contest that the title of Guru is conferred on the contestant. - There is no entry fee, but only attendees to the Photoshop Convention can participate. Now convention cost is itself $$$. Im all for a free contest. - The Gurus contest is held twice a year. We could do the same for Bryce Gurus contest. - There are quite a few categories for the photoshop contest. We can also have a few categories in the Bryce contest, viz. Best Scenery, 100% Bryce, Best Bryce Illustration and an overall winner. - There has to be a prize. Electric Guitar, rubber chicken, mammary substitute, monitor, cash prize whichever...but it has to be a prize people will aspire towards and bring out the best in them, along with a memento, not to mention shippable to any part of the globe. - The panel of judges will have to be community-recognised people. Susan Kitchen? Conan Hunter? Clay? A few things will have to be sorted out. Under whose aegis will the contest take place? There are quite a few Bryce communities other then Renderosity eg. Brycetech, Bryce Forum etc. Its only when all are included, will this be truly a contest worth its salt. The modalities of course will have to be worked out! Can we form a team of 3-4 individuals who can work out the contest requirements and modalities, with the community chipping in? Agentsmith, Brycetech, Clay are people who come to mind along with Audre and her organisational skills. The last Bryce contest we had in Renderosity was in Nov last year. Time we shook things up? What say folks?