<blockquote>
  <p>In response to the community's feedback on this contest, <strong>we've decided
  to cancel it.</strong> We never intended to favor quantity over quality, but we
  can see how this contest missed the mark. We appreciate all the
  constructive criticism regarding this idea.</p>
  
  <p>In case you haven't seen the contest yet and are interested, you can
  still read the announcement below.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>As more and more research-oriented sites pop up on Stack Exchange, we can’t help but be impressed with the amazing academic resource our users have created. We also can’t help but wonder... which academic community has the most Stack spirit? In an epic question-asking battle, would Math take down Statistics? Could Linguistics edge out English? If only there was a way to find out... </p>

<p>Oh wait! There is: an epic question-asking battle. Let’s do it! It’s getting close to the holidays after all, so now is a perfect time for us to say thank you by continuing our tradition of giving back. As such, the community that wins this battle will get 1000 USD to donate to a charity of their choice. Winners of each round will also get 100 USD to donate to charity.</p>

<p>Here’s how the battle will work:</p>

<ul>
<li>Participating sites are English, Math, Statistics, Theoretical Computer Science, Linguistics, Physics, Philosophy, and History.</li>
<li>Each round will last a week, and the contest will be single-elimination bracket-style. </li>
<li>To move on to the next round, the average number of questions each site asks per day during the round must exceed that site’s current average. Whichever site exceeds their average by more questions wins the round. </li>
<li>To determine who would face off in the first round, we seeded the sites according to past activity.</li>
</ul>

<p>Are you ready for this?! Here it is:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DIyMj.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>A few more notes:</p>

<ul>
<li>Although this is a contest, a “Battle of the Sites” if you will, it’s all in the spirit of fundraising for charity and having fun. So while we understand (and encourage!) competitiveness, try to keep it friendly. </li>
<li>While we expect this contest to generate a lot of new questions, we
have full faith in the community’s ability to uphold its standards
and preference for good questions. If we find that a site is getting
a lot of bad questions during the contest, it will have to be
disqualified.</li>
</ul>

<p>Round one starts now and ends Sunday 11/20 at 11:59 pm UTC. Ready. Set. <em>GO.</em> </p>
