I suppose it was only a matter of time.

and bash is over.

sorry, but what happened, can you please link me the transcript?

I could have possibly gotten them all, too.

I just didn't want to spam out a bajillion answers and hope 5 of them got accepted.

Rep Hunter, the only one I couldn't quite get :(

Darn, it never gave me my gold badge in time for the gold badge hat.

I'm happy, I got 111st

Why don't you just join a site mid December and stay somewhat active on it so next Bash you can automatically get a gold? (the yearling badge)

Time to upload my hats backup.

github.com/unikong/winterbash-2019-hats

@YaakovEllis There is still one unrevealed secret hat trigger, for Blue in the Face. Now that it's all over, can you please reveal it?

@Eran You got Philantropist! you made me second on SO and sixth network-wide ugh!

@David Will there be any graphs of this winter bash, last year there was

@U10-Forward-ReinstateMonica Sorry about time. Better luck next time! I hope to do better next time.

@AlexanderO'Mara Looking at the post you linked to, as well as David's similar bounty post, both had multiple downvotes and upvotes just before the end of Winterbash, so (without actually knowing who the voted are) it seems both sides behaved similarly. Anyway, the downvotes seem to have failed in both cases (since both answers ended with positive score)

@Eran There was some heavy voting last-minute in David's favor.

Also, I definitely did downvote David's post, and I explained why, and would have downvoted it any other day of the year. I also downvoted at-least one of the other answers.

@AlexanderO'Mara And I see you said it didn't go so bad last year. I guess you would say that, since you won both prizes last year, and didn't have tough competition as you did this year. I think the close competition this year made it more interesting to watch. If the same person wins every year, it may discourage new users from trying, and I think the main point of the competition is to attract new users to Bricks.

@AlexanderO'Mara Both David's and your answers had multiple downvotes followed by close upvotes. It's hard to believe they are unrelated to the contest.

Incidentally, I would certainly be OK with any rule that might be implemented about repeat winners. I already decided to retire after this year, after almost not bothering with WB at all this year.

I'm not sure what you are trying to show with this image, but there were more (earlier) downvotes you didn't include in the image.

I mostly did it this year because people were protesting the existence if WB this year.

Sure, there were earlier votes.

None so congregated as those that came in the last 8 minutes.

Not sure if I did better then last eyar or not :D

Anybody got last year screenshot?

Looks like you improved by 1.

You missed the top spot last year too @AnkitSharma

I have doubts about mentioning the leaderboard in the blog this time.

@AlexanderO'Mara make same screenshot for this year too ;)

@AJ last year also two hat missing lol

@AnkitSharma Yeah, you just reminded me.

@AlexanderO'Mara or other performed bad :p Last year 6 people got all hats and I got 2 lesser hats. This year nobody got all hats anD top two missing one hat and I was missing 2 again.

Here's this year: i.imgur.com/tf77jXj.png

Ok thanks I needed for my next question @AlexanderO'Mara

Or if you don't want me pinned to the top: i.imgur.com/9IC588s.png

@AlexanderO'Mara taht will feel better for meta post standpoint, thanks

I can't see myself in the top 10 last year. I think I ended up at #30 or something.

I posted only two questions and one answer this year and got 23 hats. ;)

lol

I have submitted the leaderboard URL to the wayback machine.

done

But I think someone has already did it.

@Feeds ok you are the fastest feed bot in teh universe

Faster then my spell correction

Haha

Ugly sweaters \o/

@gparyani what's the best guess y'all were able to come up with?

@YaakovEllis Mine was editing an answer after a comment

Must be your own answer.

@YaakovEllis Woah. Seems like I misremembered the chain of events. I thought it was awarded after I edited my post but didn't realize that Nap made a comment at that time.

@YaakovEllis whoa

Noone would have guessed that.

@YaakovEllis When will we get the blog and stats?

@AJ I will update the final stats soon. Blog will happen when it happens

Most probably tomorrow or next week.

@YaakovEllis Anyway, congratulations on being in the top 10. ;)

@YaakovEllis wow that is weird

@YaakovEllis Can you please explain the odd similarity to the avatar of staff member Taryn (formerly bluefeet)?

Was it an intentional attempt to misguide people into thinking that it was a reboot of the Hairboat('s Revenge) hat, but with Taryn instead of hairboat?