Looking from last year country cup, there was almost no category for oldschoolers. So I think lets take a break this month and continue in November. Many people just have time in the holidays to bench. For some it may be the other way round but its like everytime you cant make it right for everyone.
About the stages, I could imagine making it a little bit more straight forward by focusing on one socket each month. Lets select the classic benchmarks, CPU-Z, pifast, superpi 1m / 32m, wprime 32m / 1024m, 3DMark01 and maybe one special stage. This special stage could be an efficiency challenge or what ever. But the main goal is to trash the old records and become the king of the HOF.