We’re really starting to get down to brass tacks with the committee and I’m excited how things are moving along so far. Hoping to have something we can show you folks soon. Stay tuned! 
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What about… JAM Jam? 
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(For the record: this became SeedComp. Web site, forum announcement.)
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So busy spreading the word, forgot to follow-up where folks were talking about it in the first place! lol
Thanks, @JTN !
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I’m impressed that you managed to turn this around from knocking about a few ideas to fully worked out and launched competition, with website, in a couple of weeks! I wish I could be as decisive.
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@pinkunz, @lpsmith , @MiloM, @Draconis and I pushed each other to get this ready by the deadline we set 
Having the deadline agreed on helped a ton I believe.
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If you’re curious, I originally posted this as an idle thought on November 21st, at 2:14pm EST.
We went live with a fully-fleshed comp on December 6th, at 9:00am EST.
That’s 14 days, 18 hours, and 46 minutes.
Honestly could not have done it without my fellow organizers, advise from organizers of other comps, past and present, and all of the support and discussion from everyone else in the community. 
Can not thank you all enough.
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Now I would really like to see What-If-DBComp in which people submit IFDB entries for non-existent games, including a description, any applicable content warnings, what awards it may have won (with the final digit X-ed out), the ratings chart showing number of ratings at each of 1-5 stars, its number of reviews, its tags, and the text of at least one review (or 2 or 3, but no more)… and then someone else writes the game that corresponds to that entry. Perhaps part of the premise would be that they were all SpeedIF games, so no one leads with “The rise and fall of a galaxy-spanning dynasty, in which you revisit the same ten planets across centuries…”
(I am never, ever going to organize such a thing, so I fling this into the void!)
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I liked your post a lot (and such a thing would make a great seed for seedcomp), but I saw this:
and immediately thought of Worldsmith, which is an enormous game that actually starts with you creating multiple planets and visiting them over the centuries in a worldbuilding game. After that there’s over a dozen hours of regular puzzle-based gameplay.
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And then there’s me thinking two hours is a long time…
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Just to back up Mathbrush here, this would be an amazing Seedcomp! seed.
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Alert, alert, I just had an idea: what if WhatIfComp (har har) could be like that every year, you choose one game, and one “area in time” in the game, and then the people have to make a game that begins from that point, but choose a different option. Like you choose the point in Zork where you’re entering Hades, and two people may say “what if the entrance to Hades was blocked off by rubble as soon as you enter”, and carry on the story from there, but one person makes it about finding a way to escape, and the other about becoming the King of Hades. And another says “what if you become a ghost and must explore the new underground in the body of a ghost, but the borders are not walls but are made from enchantments of the thief!”
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Sounds like a good theme for a Jam.
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