Because not all the contests are limited to the Awards section on the forum, I.E The Graphics Artists Of The Week/Month and the other Fan Art Contests on the forum. Those are in their respective boards and by giving that person who runs those contests, access to lock topics, that means they could lock any topic within that entire board. ^^ If we give the right to lock topics to anyone who has a contest, all people would have to be taken into consideration, not just those who have contest threads in the Awards section of the forum, which you'd be the only one as of right now Snowy, aside from KK. lol. ^^ We try our utmost not to show favortism here on MLK.