think in outside of the topic range ... its never going to be useless as long there are website/forum design contests , signature/logo/avatar requests , banner/renders/flashes showoffs and etc more . People can simply take new challenges by facing other 'designers' in this forum , learning new stuff , making themselves known to the community , picking up reputation being able to be chosen for upcoming projects where they can be payed as well.
+1 for the idea !
yes please ;) im sure you can face them without problems