You mean like a competition to make a "bootable" game, like you submit a disc image and then the judges burn it to a CD and boot from it?

I guess we could. The big problem is that you'd have a lot of trouble making use of the hardware because it's not fixed and so you'd need drivers, and as such the games would have to be very basic (tic-tac-toe level basic). I suppose we could just point people at a Linux distro or something, but if we did that we might as well just hold a Linux development contest. I'm also concerned that having to download, burn to a CD or disk, and reboot the machine isn't going to be a terribly popular distribution model with the visitors who come along to try out the entries. There's also the fact that I try to run contests that are going to help participants build useful, practical skills that helps them in their careers as developers, and I'm not sure that this is particularly useful.