I would guess that the greatest amount of time spent in managing the competition area is deciding on the winners. Create a script allowing members to vote for the competition entries.
In order to keep thing fair, the script should check to insure the user has not voting for the current competition.
Give each user three votes:
first place: 5 points
second place: 3 points
third place: 1 point
The main purpose of the point system is to minimize the chances of a tie. A tie breaker could be sent through the voting function again (limiting the voting choices)A time stamp could be used to make the voting fully automatic.
Well work just calledd, so gotta go. But, I'm sure you all get the picture.
BTW, I'll log back onto IRC went I get back (approximately threee hours)