I’m really psyched that Aaron Reed is making Spring Thing less of a competition. I think we need that. One thing about competitions is that people immediately begin to compare and don’t really say, well, this is what I liked about game X vs game Y. While the prospect of a competition and a deadline help me get writing, I don’t really enjoy having people outright give grades & I think the noncompetitiveness of ShuffleComp (with just recommendation) helped free a lot of people to try stuff.