OK with all the talk on decentralizing the Challenge why don't the readers in various regions organize and run it ourselves. For example divide the country into 4 to 6 regions and run a regional events then the top 12 finishers for each area go to the final in Florida to compete for the whole shebang.
The GRM staff cannot do this or we would have no magazine to read in the bathroom but they could oversee the final and partake and judge the regional events.
I'd be up to help run a Midwest event....