Hello, people of the Sonic Hacking Contest!

I would like to say thank you, for the bottom of my heart, for making the Sonic Hacking Contest 2024 as great an event as it was! We are currently reading your feedback as it is coming along, and we're very pleased!

Unfortunately, I don't come with only pleasant announcements.

My own enjoyment of the Sonic Hacking Contest was affected by internal and external stressant events, the most intense ones happening just in the span of this month. I also can not 100% praise whatever internal management of the Contest I carried out, for there were clear, undeniable issues with stress and deadline management most prominently.

For these reasons, I've decided to go on a couple month long break from managing the Sonic Hacking Contest. During this leave period, expect me to be far less active to happenings in the public SHC Server. If you need support from Staff related to the SHC, I also have to ask that you don't directly send me DMs on Discord. Although I appreciate that lots of you trust me enough to come to me for support, it was never proper procedure, and was meant to be a last resort, with the Discord Server's ModMail bot being the *true* proper procedure for reaching out the in-server Staff of the Sonic Hacking Contest. If I, specifically, am needed, Staff knows how to reach me, and I *will* make sure to be there. Otherwise, please use the ModMail bot. Alternatively, for those not present on Discord, you can reach out via shc<.>zone<.>site<@>gmail<.>com, or via the official SHC Social Media DMs.

Thank you, once again, for your support to the Sonic Hacking Contest, and look forward to a new-and-improved Sonic Hacking Contest 2025!