Archiving Update:
Just finished IRON DM Winter 2003 (which started less than a month after HOLIDAY IRON DM 2002). So that's three down.
Things I noticed in this tourney:
1. Mixed feelings about entries based on existing properties (a Narnia-inspired redux of C.S. Lewis's work got disqualified and a warning about Five Deadly Venoms use)
2. The beginning of concern about how long entries were getting
3. Suggestions about how to choose contestants in a fairer manner, b/c so many people want to play - but there have been a lot of frequent players.
IRON DM Summer 2003 is next (incognito mentioned a Spring 2003 event with a round-robin style competition, but I cannot find it - don't know if it started and it did, if it finished but was swallowed by time and the vagaries of forum backends)
EDIT: I did more searching and it looks like after running a successful IRON DM Winter in 2003, incognito only posted on more thread (the day of the final judgement) and then never posted or took part in IRON DM again that I can find. He was last "seen" on the board in 2005, but that is still two years of silence - if we assumed that was when he left for good.