Seriously, What Is This About Vocal?

Introduction

This is just about the flood of winning Challenge pieces in Top Stories.

Has Something Gone Wrong?

WTF Vocal. Since Wednesday 24th of December 25 every Top Story has been a previous Challenge placement or winner.

There was no Leaderboard this week, and it looks like something has gone terribly wrong.

Dharrsheena told me this:

"This will be the final Leaderboard update of the year, we'll be back at it January 7, 2026. Wishing everyone a happy holiday season."

This was stated in last week's Leaderboard. So there won't be any Leaderboards till 7th January

I don't begrudge people success (well, there are three creators I do begrudge success for, but out of eight hundred thousand, that is not many), but every Top Story has already received a bonus, and that implies that new work is not being considered.

It's not because I won't get an extra five dollars. There are probably lots of creators who have written great stories, like this one:

There have been no announcements that I am aware of (I checked Discord too), and I am sure many who expected to place on the Leaderboard will be disappointed.

Can we have some answers, please?