Hi Leslie,
I just wanted to mention that you started out great with giving feedback & commenting on your likes & dislikes. Using the main contest page. It really helps the designers to come up with new concepts for you.
You will find that, by encouraging different ideas and versions, you broaden the field of entries and get more to choose from. - If you narrow the field to designs that are too similar in nature, you chance to get a lot of the same or not much at all...
Updating the ranking keeps us on our toes and motivated too :)
We currently seem to be almost stuck on the signature idea (yes, i am too), this may or may not change, but you can influence the development of the contest by requesting different approaches, throwing in an idea, a favourite shape or object.
If you are happy with the signature approach, of course, leaving it the way it is will work just fine.
Hope this helps a little bit....