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From the Sponsoring A Contest As Game Development department:

Each entrant will be required to assign all ownership of a game idea and the game entry, and all intellectual property rights in that game idea and game entry, to the Foundation in order to be eligible for participation in the contest.

If you want to continue work on your game idea after the contest, or want or hope to sell it to a third party sometime in the future, do not enter your game idea into this contest.

$25,000 as an R&D/development cost in return for a large bunch of new games is a pretty good deal for the organizers. It's not as good a deal for the participants, particularly for the vast majority who won't win, and yet have signed away all rights to their game. In the interests of fairness, contests like this really should only be allowed to take your game publishing rights if you're a winner.

(Retyping the rules by hand was fun. Why does Slashdot have an ALL CAPS checker and not a spellchecker?)