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Koufax Award Update

The nominations for the Koufax Awards closed at the end of last year. The response has been overwhelming with more than 600 comments or emails providing nominations. Many of those communications contained nominations for many or all of the 15 categories and some contained multiple nominations within each category. There have been thousands of nominations.

Mary Beth and I have sorted through all of the nominations. We are committed to a policy of linking to every blog, post or series that received a nomination. In the next couple of days, we will post a list of nominees for each category. With the huge response, it will be a minor miracle if I have not made an error and omitted someone. If you were nominated but are not on listed in the post, please let me know and I will try to fix it.

I have excluded the nominations for Wampum and PLA. Your efforts to sway the judges with shameful flattery have been duly noted and greatly appreciated.

After posting the list of nominees, Mary Beth and I will winnow the nominations to a group of finalists. There should be 7-10 finalists in each category. To decide on the finalists, we will consider the number of nominations, our sense of the consensus of the community, the natural break points in each category, and the comments accompanying the nominations. Comments (or email) left to this post and to the posts listing the nominations will also be considered. In close cases, we will consider whether or not a particular blog will be a finalist in another category with the intent to have as many different finalists as possible.

In the categories of Best Post, Best Series, and Most Humorous Post, some people have multiple nominations. It has been suggested that we limit entries in those categories to one per blogger so as to avoid having support for a particular blogger divided over a number of entries. That makes sense. We will consider the support for all nominated posts (or series) by a blogger when determining the finalists for those categories. Once the finalists have been selected, we will email any finalists with multiple nominations to permit him or her to select the post or series to be included.

Should you not be one of the finalists, you are encouraged to strike an attitude closer to “Wait until next year” than to “We wuz robbed.” There are many worthy nominees in each category and it is unwieldy to try to include them all as finalists. That is one reason we are linking to every nominee.

The winner in each category will be selected by the votes left in comments to the post naming the finalists (or by email if you prefer). We have contracted with Diebold to count the votes so there will be no audit trail. Motions for a recount are hereby preemptively denied. We hope to be able to announce winners in a couple of weeks.

Please remember that this is supposed to be fun for you and for us. Do not take winning too seriously. The idea is simply to recognize the good work of a lot of people. Posting of the lists of nominees should begin soon.

Posted by Dwight Meredith at January 3, 2004 03:25 PM | TrackBack