After the tragedy that was IM 9 there was a discussion a while about how to reinvent Iron Modder and make it all cool again and this was one of the ideas that was discussed many moons ago. The idea is fairly simple: battle of the boards.
This would involve various BG2 modding forums going against each other in a friendly competition (this doesn't just mean the big names, it can be little forums as well). Each forum would nominate two entrants: a modder (preferably the admin) and a judge (a trusted lackey). When it comes to judging, each entry will not be marked by its nominated judge e.g. if PPG's judge was Ghreyfain he'd be marking all entries except PPG's.
On top of this there'd be an Insane Overlord who preferably should be someone vaguely neutral who will not be judging but just coming up with the name for the mod, starting and stopping the competition and totally up the scores at the end. My idea of neutral would be someone like for example, Andyr who is a GM at PPG, G3 and an ex-GM at FWS (the father of SHS). Not that I'm saying it definitely should be Andyr, I'm just using him as an example.
As stated above even the smaller forums can enter and in fact it's encouraged as it would be pretty cool if a small forum managed to beat one of the main ones. Some examples (don't be insulted if you're not on the list, I'm just throwing some possible ideas down): PPG (JCompton, Ghreyfain), G3 (CamDawg, Idobek), SHS (SConrad, Seifer), Last Stoplight (StoplightRed, RandomTask) and NAMC (Cliffette, Icelus).
Thoughts?