Several alert and smart members found the mini-contest embedded in the HP4GU Contest announcement.  The anagram of the full name of the contest, The Invitational, Magical, Exciting, Weekly, All-Smarty's Tournament Extraordinaire, spells TIMEWASTE.

This was found almost immediately by Lisa (lmrourke@s...), and also by Craig, who thought it was too obvious (rcraigharman@h...) and by Amy Z (aiz24@h...).