I wasn't going to comment on this, but I really see both sides of Al's comment. I have gone through old TD threads on MANY occasions and am always amazed by the entries. I don't think the entries are better now, but I really believe the picture quality is significantly better. It used to be that RTD and maybe one or two others had good pics and there were a lot of others, whose pics were ok, but not great. Now, there are a LOT of good pics in each TD. I think this is a good thing, but I am afraid it might also be a distraction. Before, we had to look carefully at each picture or we'd just be voting for the same couple people each time. Now we can just ignore all the sub-par pics and still have quite a few to decide between. I hope we don't get lazy and we keep considering all the entries, how they are cooked, how they might taste, and especially how they satisfy or interpret the particular throwdown topic. You will always have a certain number of voters who will vote for the prettiest picture, but I would hate this to evolve into just a simple photo contest.