you could put up a poll of the top 20 stories from the young guns and let fabo decide on which stories they liked most and which ones touch home with them in there hearts and let them vote for the top 20 or top 10 or top 3 ?......just a suggestion
In trying to keep with CudaChick's suggestion of not responding in this thread, but not being able to help myself, I believe the original idea of a random drawing keeps the contest fair and balanced. Tugging at heart strings and polling the top stories would start politicing on the board through PM's as in "vote for this one" kind of thing. Or "vote for me!"