The problem with a status challenge is that staying the 18 nights in Q1 of 2004 for status the remainder of 2004 lowers the bar and alienates those who stayed the required 75 nights in 2003. While challenges are great to recruit new (or renew) status levels, they do little to reward the status member that remained loyal the year before and earned status the standard way. There should be a standard / elite lite designation for each status for a particular year and priority should be based on that.