Suggestion: Separate typical from atypical birds.
This is not to undermine those that harvest multi-spurred or multi-bearded birds, but the NWTF clearly makes this distinction for record purposes [
http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/turkey_records.php], and I think the HNI contest should as well.
I'll also offer my time to become an official "tabulator", since I'm not sure how much time I'll have in the woods this Spring, and I'm pretty quick with most software programs...