Perhaps if the contests had their own header alongside ‘latest’ , ‘cosplay’, and ‘reviews’ at the top of the page there would be more engagement.

Thats unfortunate. Coming to check out the wacky shit made for them was the main draw of coming here on weekends.

Too late (about the sonic)

I’m worried about what this means for the site as a whole  

There’s only one logical explanation: Shop Contest is what’s been breaking Kinja.

This bums me out, but I know it wasn’t up to you, Zack. Thanks for making the weekends fun again for the last several years. If Kotaku goes back to “all e-sports all the time” on the weekends, I’m fucking out of here.

You said it better than I could. One less thing for me to look forward to on Saturday. It really does make me sad.

Good luck to you too, and congrats on being reigning champ for eternity!

I never took part—no skills, but I remember you all encouraging me to try, just the same—but I’ve also never missed one. This hit me... harder than I would’ve expected, and it does make me sad.  But that being said, thanks to everyone involved down the years!

I’ll miss you most of all, scarecrow.

and thanks for all the fish.

Yeah you too!

I am honored to have shopped amongst you all. For about 10 years now, every Sunday I’ve looked forward to being creative and weird and whatever through this shop contest. First with Owen, then Mike, and now with Zack. It’s been a fun outlet and a great evolving community. I will miss it, mostly for the side jokes we…

Damn didn’t realize this was the last one. At least I was able to get in one last Owen wheelbarrow for the road. Thanks to everyone for making the shop contest so fun each week.

No more highlight reel, now this... Management just trying to suck every last ounce of fun out of this site?

The thing is, I was on board with Patricia’s manifesto. It gave me hope that there’d be more meaningful content than endless Twitch drama and clickbait slideshows of expensive Pokémon cards - but stuff like this is meaningful too.

Last one …?

Ok, this is some bullshit.