I think I'd enjoy challenge-style more, myself, but I don't want to rock the boat against the prevailing sentiment if we don't have to.

We'll request that no one recycle prompts this time. That's another thing that makes matches exceedingly difficult -- when people submit the same prompts multiple times. Prompts and preferences that were hard to match the first time don't get easier subsequent times, when it's the same small group of us every year.