I like the implementation of the "meritorious posts" section for the challenge participants. This gives participants an increased chance at being noticed by a higher ranking member with a lot of merit and therefore more likely to earn merit. This offers people the chance to get involved and sponsor the challenge without committing to a cash sponsor or a continuous merit sponsor; users are now able to simply take a peak at the meritorious posts and decide whether or not they would like to contribute to what we are accomplishing.

I imagine we will see a lot of recidivism within this challenge, so I would assume that Round 3 and onward will have a 3rd place cash prize. Unless we have some more rule-breakers, that is.

I'll be throwing around extra merits here and there for thought-provoking discussions, posts, tutorials or whatever else fits my criteria. I'll do "Merit reviews" like I do in my thread for random participants now and then.