[rpedela]

Yeah I agree, I would like to see some percentage be lottery based. I think you should still need to write a proposal, but if the proposal isn't selected then it goes in the lottery pool. There are two reasons to still write the proposal: helps organize the researcher's thoughts and shows the researcher is serious.

[jabl]

You'd still want some screening for your proposal to be admitted into the lottery pool to weed out the crackpots, but yes.