Thanks for the input people

I will consider each persons post and keep reading here in case there are more...
The only problemk I see is that a loit want it longer yet others want it to say or be shorter...If anything I may extend the competition by a week so it'd be 1month 1 week or something but I have not decided just yet.
As for the map ideas, let me rule out the following to be skinned:
Lockout (Hard map to skin, 3 bitmaps, no offence but I'd expect poor skins for it, even for me), cogaultion (similar to lockout, only a few textures need skinningm and its become a cliche for skins [esp snow]), tombstone is out because the skin for it is beautiful, waterworks coz its too big.
There, its not like I'm ruling out a lot of maps, just don;t come to expect these maps to be the map to be skinned...
Btw, I may do what I w2as going to do previously and make a theme and everyone skins around that...The only problem is WHAT theme to skin? There's no way in hell that I'd choose snow, and I can't think of too many themes otherwise...Jungle, desert, dilapidated, urban, covenant? I dunno, we'll see but I think skinning one level is best and easiest to manage to choose who can skin the best.
Anyway, keep up the posts bnecause as I said, I won't be making the cotest just yet, I say late may to june as the time the comp starts (plus I'll finish semster artound then, and supposeldy you yanks do too)