Please don't be worrying that the challenges are going away. That's not why this question was asked. I don't even see a hint of that in Jess's post.
And, I have a few things to say. First, they are challenges - they aren't always going to fit your current comfort zone because they are challenges and meant to be challenging. From our end, it appears that they are not valued when very few people participate in them. Before I was on the CT, I planned all of my pages for the month around the challenges and submitted to alot of them. It served several purposes for me - 1. get noticed - 2. inspiration for work that I wanted to send out - 3. push me out of a rut if I was stuck in one.
Second, the CT members are people, too, and have very busy lives outside of scrapbooking the same as the membership here. Sometimes the challenges sneak up on us even when we've been used to doing them for months and months. It sometimes takes a couple of days into the month before the challenges are posted because it takes that long to get them put together. Jess does this for us and she does an awesome job with something that's very difficult to manage. I was talking to her today about what could be done to make her job easier (other than someone taking over for her because that someone is not going to be me
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). We didn't have any ideas that would really work and I'm sure that's partly why this thread was started.
Thirdly, winners of challenges are awarded points randomly from all entries. If you want points, participate in more challenges so your chances of getting points goes up. Awarding points is time consuming and isn't likely to happen for every challenge entry.
It is very exciting to see entries come in for a challenge that you've designed. We really appreciate every entry made for our challenges and are just looking to improve - not eliminate. Keep the ideas for improvement coming!