I think the thread got deleted by a mod who didn't realize that it already had a bunch of support. I'm gonna pm a couple showing them the newsposts and how many people were involved and most likely get this thing rolling. I'll let all of you know when I get a response.

THE THREAD HAS BEEN MADE. Link

For a long time, I've been thinking of how NG could have a place where users could have photoshop competitions like on somethingawful, and I'd like to run the idea past you guys. My inspiration for this idea comes from Photoshop Phriday, where somethingawfuls "forum goons" post photoshops in a thread based off of one particular subject or base pic and an admin picks the best ones and compiles them into a collection.

I'd like to do something similar to this on NG in the form of a photoshop club. The way it would work is that each month or two weeks, there would be a base pic or a theme that I would put out on the thread. Any user could send their idea for a competition to me in a pm, and I would pick the one I thought has the most potential. For each competition you would be limited to 3 shops. We would pick people who could judge these competitions and rate each picture. The top 10 pictures with the highest scores would give the user that created them points according to where they ranked. 1st - 100 points, 2nd - 90 points, etc, and there would be a roster that I would make to keep track of how many points each user had.

The submissions would be rated under the following criteria:

Quality of the image: 1 - 10. 10 being the highest.
Humor: 1 - 10.
Creativity: 1 - 10.

The judges would vote 1 through 10 on each category, meaning there is a possible 30 points.

I think this would be a fun idea because it would motivate people to make very funny high quality shops, and over time would generate into a thread with pages and pages of laughs in it. I think it'd be a really fun thing to do for people who photoshop, not to mention it would be a good way to show their abilities to NG, and for people who don't photoshop, it'd be a fun thread to look through just to get some laughs. Please leave some feedback in the comments section.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED LET ME KNOW IN A COMMENT.
I'm not going through all of the hassle of creating this difficult of a system until I'm sure a certain number of people would be willing to do it.