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Thanks Hoogle, I hadn't actually considered the specificness of the challenges to be a turn-off factor. The couple of times I've come up with challenges, I had more considered the specifications as ways of ensuring fair play and to make it easier for people to choose a winner (if something is too subjective, I was concerned it might lead to a very split vote).

All that said, I now agree that maybe we should be opening things up a bit - in fact this has made me think that actually, coming up with challenges has been very hard. It almost doesn't feel like a 'reward' for being the winner, lol! So I am liking the idea of set themes. Concerning challenge rewards, I don't think anyone is particularly fussed, are they? The peer recognition is nice as it stands.

Maybe as a half way compromise (and to inject some variety each year), the winner of the challenge gets to pick a general, one word theme for the next one, but nothing more specific than that?