A good number of fans wanted to know about this Toa. GregF said for 4 years that he had no plans to bring this Toa up. He still has no plans. Now that the storyline might end, why not do it now? Aravagantos, I am not sure why you can't understand how a passing sentence in a book would lead to a contest. I think it was going to be done one way or another. Seeing as this won't affect the current storyline, why not?
I don't know, it just seems like devoting a story contest to a random guy. Like making a story about the life of the Rahi Lesovikk tried to mercy-kill, or about the guy who wrote "My friend went to Po-Koro and all I got was this lousy rock".