Well, I've been trying to get into making art, so I'll go for this. Count me in! Although I now know WSC stands for, I have no clue what it is.
And yes, with X/Y taking out sprites, a lot of people would say why try to revive it? Well, think of it like the dinosaurs. Pretend we are a few years in the future. Sprites are extinct dinos. Yet we still try to search for bones of them. So, to me if GameFreak is ditching sprites, that's a signal for all fan artists out there to go absolutely crazy nuts.
Not to be cynical, but a contest is something you do for something that already has a sustainable popularity. The Fan-sprites section is and always will be DEAD, just let it be.
If you're going to make a spriting contest, do it on Deviantart, quite literally the only place with a community of spriters left. Plus it would be something new, rather then rehashing the old.
Like I said, not trying to be a downer, but if the last 5 "revivals" didn't work this one won't either.
I'm not trying to start a argument here, but if the sprite community is dying, why shouldn't we try to save it? If GameFreak ditches the sprites, and everybody does exactly what GF does, then:
A: Might as well ditch fan art altogether; if we only accept what GF does as what we, as fans with the no restrictions, can do, then how are we any different from GF? It's called fan art for a reason.
B: Like the dinosaurs thing I mentioned earlier; if a certain type a fan art is dying, then that's not a reason that we just abandon it. If you were the only person in the world who loved dogs/cats/whatever, and everyone else just said "oh, let's all abandon dogs to extinction", would you just say "okay, I'll jump on the bandwagon and let my favorite animal go extinct and not do a single thing in my power to save it"?
Also, I know you didn't mean to pop anyone's bubble, but a lot of the time, when someone has a hope for something, if someone comes up to you and says "oh it won't work; might as well give up", that would be pretty discouraging.
I'm not trying to start a conflict, honestly and truly. I'm really very sorry if this offended anyone (not that I see how it could), but if it did, I didn't mean it.