and maybe some challenges for randomizer emulators.
Side not but if you mean actual emulators, then that's not really allowed on these forums. Same goes for rom hacks, which is a bit of lost potential but them's the breaks of the rules.
You also gave me the idea of a program that'd just give you a random team to use in the run. If I felt so inclined (not rn mind, the uni life is way too hectic for me this month and next =p) I could always come up with such a thing in a program given a list of pokes available in each game. I've done a bunch of coding before. But I wouldn't count on it. Partly depends on interest and potential usage. =p
But I digress. Seems there is some interest in trying other challenges. One idea I had recently is, on top of the current threads, to have a 'featured' bonus challenge thread running for, say, a month or two tops. Each time it'll be something different from the norm. Maybe it'd be for a specific generation of games, or for even the spinoff titles in Colosseum/XD too on that note. But the ideas for the challenges is more details. Basically - challenge of *some sort* that can be proposed would go up every month or two, and you can all partake and try to complete it in that time.
I dunno if this is possible, but with certain challenges (maybe mod-approved and stuff) there could be a reward system beyond a pat-on-the-back?
If there was a forum reward system (e.g. emblems or medals or whatnot), I'd imagine such a thing would really be a forum-wide feature, not just something that'd occur just for a single section. So what dirkac said regarding that! Not that it's a bad idea in itself to have! I don't think it's too bad to encourage people to join in events and all. But yeah, that's not too easy a thing to implement (and Serebii himself is not a big fan of adding to the forums with side-on features or hacks or etc, but that's another matter).
Hall of fame wouldn't be a bad idea but one I don't quite like as much, especially as it requires constant updating. Besides, most people would really be doing it for the sense of their own achievement.