Ratimov reduced the pledged amount by 0.0435 BTC, currently worth $1649, after 90% of the contest's running time passed. And although I'm nowhere near winning this contest, I find this extremely disappointing to do. At least it earned him another 22 Merits posting this. He must have forgotton to delete that post. Let me archive it for him.
You don't just break promises in a community because you're having a tantrum!
WTF is he doing!? You don't just break promises in a community because you're having a tantrum!
I am he is really digging his own hole deeper and deeper every day.
Nobody forced him to sponsor any competition, so changing his mind like this is unacceptable, and I can see some members even giving him negative feedback because of this.