This type of contest is controversial because it often leads to massive amounts of link spamming as participants try to boost the rankings of their pages by any means available. … The organizing body of an SEO competition may hold the activity without promotion of a product or service in mind; or they may organize a contest in order to market something on the Internet. Participants can showcase their skills and potentially discover and share new techniques for promoting websites. ~wikipedia
For your information, I’m using no black-hat techniques at all in this seocontest2008. Some participants that have a good position in this seocontest2008 seem using some black-hat techniques. Will a white-hat beats those black-hatter ? Just wait and see !
