Bobby Big Wheel is your winner. Thanks to all of you who signed up for the new commenting system and participated in the caption contest. No thanks to those of you who missed the point entirely by emailing your entries. Bobby Big Wheel is the big winner for mocking Detroit’s inability to build a competitive robot. Honorable mention goes to StuScottBooyahs for his spot-on usage of the New Yorker rule.

We here at KSK recently conducted a bit of audience research, which garnered a host of helpful suggestions, such as “please, more hardcore porn links in the live blog”, “how about a Gerald Sensabaugh KSKharacter?”, “wouldn’t it be awesome if Drew got time travel powers?” and “you should win stuff by reading”.

We laughed uproariously at all of them. Just horrible, horrible ideas. But then our Uproxx overlords said we need to do something to promote the new commenting system that has been implemented on the network, which includes lofty-nifty features like sign-up using Facebook or Twitter, universal log-in on any Uproxx site and user profiles with clickable avatars. Coming soon, we’ll have direct messaging capability between commenters, threaded comment replying and even badges and awards for great commenting that Otto Man will probably win on a weekly basis.

Anyway, we meekly acceded to our overlords’ demands as we were being whipped back into the blog mines. In a related development: It now turns out you will be able to win things by reading! And not just a copy of whichever book one of us is hawking at that particular moment. Something you actually want!

So here’s the deal: We’re giving out a $250 Amazon gift card to a registered reader who submits the best caption in the comments for the image included after the jump. For further reference, see the similar contests going on at the Uproxx flagship site and at Gammasquad.

MORE RULES

- UPROXX network employees and contributors are prohibited from winning. Rule is also arbitrarily expanded to include Josh Zerkle. And we won’t allow Unsilent to rig this one for Sarah Schorno.

- You have until 7 p.m. Sunday to claim your prize. If you’ve won, you’ll be notified by email on Friday October 14, 2011. The winner then has until the end of the late games Sunday to reply to the email notification. If a winner doesn’t respond by that time, another will be chosen.

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In closing, gentle reader, I’d like to thank you. ‘What’s that?’ you say? Me thanking YOU? No, it’s not a misprint, for you see, I enjoyed writing this book as much as you enjoyed reading it. The End.

We had a fantasy football contest last year. We got a shitload of entries, many of them outstanding, and in the end we picked the girl who was willing to hook up with Maj. Only a fair trade, I suppose. HUGE sacrifice on her part.

So, as the season nears, we’re gonna have another tips contest. Only this time the prize is even MORE self-aggrandizing. It’s an advance copy of Men With Balls. The book comes out on October 27th, but you’ll get to read it two months before everyone else! Think of how cool you’ll feel! It would be like some ComicCon jackass getting into a free “Watchmen” screening! ZOMG!!!11!!!111!!!

I can’t really tell you how funny I think this book is, since I’m the asshole that wrote it. All I can do is show you one of the blurbs on the back of the cover jacket.

No, that isn’t a misprint. Nor is it unauthorized. I’m pretty sure that if Buzz enjoyed the book, so will you.

All you have to do to win your advance copy is submit something awesome. I don’t care what it is. Send us an awesome tip. Make a great photoshop. Send more drunk photos of Orton. My email and the KSK staff email links are on the sidebar. You’ve got until next Thursday. Show us your balls, people.