CONTEST WINNER NOTIFICATION (8/16/10): In the true spirit of David Choe, the contest votes were falsely inflated by a handful of submitters, with the winner ending up with 31,000 votes... Interesting, considering the Choe contest wasn't even visited 31,000 times. But hey, there's nothing we can prove, although the voting software we used supposedly had measures in place to prevent this sort of thing. Coincidentally, however, the biggest vote-getter was also the favorite among most of the non-voting Upper Playground staff as well. So we guess it became a true David Choe contest, with the best talent also being the best manipulator. So congratulations "Shitpissdick", you're the winner.

Well, we can't decide. David couldn't decide either. We blame everyone that submitted for putting us in this predicament, because there's just too much really good stuff in here.

We ran through a bunch of ideas around about how to decide the winner of this contest, and basing it purely by Facebook and Twitter shares just didn't seem to put everyone on an equal enough playing field... We're not taking any more submissions, but we've opened up a democratic voting system on each picture. And it was added to all the submissions at the same time. So next Monday (8/16/10) at noon PST whoever has the most votes for their piece will win a set of David Choe's Munko Vinyl Toys, a copy of his new book, and a drawing by David himself. Good luck.