the polaroid could be used as a frame on the website - and the most popular image from that day could be displayed within the logo - a logo constantly changing.
I'm intrigued by your idea about the design of the website, but after some thought I will be doing the graphics myself and I don't think I could pull this off. I'm not much of an artist, so I'm going to go for something very simple at first. Something like this site (logotournament.com) or stackoverflow.com (these sites focus more on fonts and simple well thought out layout). In fact, I've already purchased trophy icons kind of similiar to how this site uses them. In otherwords, I'm going for the clean, simple site design. I prefer entry #1 over entry #2.
glad you like that, appreciate the feedback, it really helps ... I'll have a think about how to introduce some colour - here is the most simple way ... maybe some kind of figure on the photograph ?