Man, I miss the heck out of the monthly ones when they don't run for long periods of time. I'd love to have them occur more frequently, even though I'm certainly just glad they're occurring at all. PC's pixel art contests are the only art contests I enter, and usually the only reason aside from deviantART icons that I even do pixel art these days. I kind of need them as an excuse to do it almost, otherwise I'm too lazy X3
It'd be neat to have them be maybe a week or two instead, 'cause say if a person was interested in trying one out but maybe wasn't too keen on the theme or that month's choice of restrictions, they wouldn't have to wait a whole month for the next one or a whole darn year.
I'm also glad to see that emblem awarding is on the way 'cause it's about darn time artists can win them for something other than G&P or profile design. Not every artist's talents cover those areas so it's a nice start to have pixel artists get recognized, too. I'm very glad to see more life around here as well.
On a side note I'm probably not entering this month myself just 'cause I'm busy with school and cannot for the life of me decide on a Pokemon to pixel X3