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The 2008 Winners have FINALLY been announced! Click on the link in the menu above to access our list of winners, runners up and puddlejumper award winners!

Thank you to everyone that participated in any way!!

-forcryinoutloud

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LAST CHANCE!

This is a reminder that TODAY is your LAST chance to vote in the McKay/Sheppard awards!

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RE-VOTING!

Alright, so, Smuffster has edited the pages that needed editing. In the end it was just Best Story, Best Author and Best Artist. The "Best" categories were compiled MONTHS after I did up the nomination list and when I went through to choose which stories and authors had the most nominations to make up those categories, I had forgotten that Lamardeuse and Crysothemis had opted out. Totally my fault, for which I again, apologize.

There are two authors that accepted their nominations but do not wish to participate now. As changing all of the pages they were on would just take too long, and as they did accept their nominations, they are being left in. However, they have asked that people do NOT vote for them and that, should they win, their award go to the runner up so I am respecting their wishes. They are Sheafrotherdon and Beadattitude. So, while you will see them listed under the voting pages in various categories, please do NOT vote for them as your vote will simply be null and void as they do not wish to take part. As for those people that already voted for them, I am sorry but there is nothing we can do about that. Both authors accepted their nominations and as such we decided not to redo the categories that they are nominated in which means that the votes already cast for them are null and void.

Smuffster has, as I said, edited the three "best" category pages to remove both Lamardeuse and Crysothemis from the options however that does NOT reset the voting pages themselves (that would have required redoing the entire page rather than editing it). So, I am creating three polls, one for Best Author, Best Story and Best Artist. The people that voted FOR Lamardeuse and Crysothemis can REVOTE here for someone else. Please note that we DO have the list of everyone who has already voted so if you attempt to cheat by trying to vote multiple times, we will know and immediately disqualify your votes (and if you are the author/artist in question, will immediately disqualify you in the awards all together).

The polls will be text boxes that only I can see, so no one will know who you are voting for. I will handcount these votes towards the total for these categories.

PLEASE NOTE: If you HAVE NOT voted yet, you can just use the website voting pages for these categories. These polls are ONLY for those people who have voted for Lamardeuse and Crysothemis to recast their votes for one of the other nominees.

I am making the nomination list and the voting page active again so you will be able to access both (the nomination list itself has Sheafrotherdon and Beadattitude removed - they remain only in the voting pages as they accepted their nominations and it would be too difficult to edit all of the pages now, in the final week of voting).

After having spoken to Smuffster, I am officially announcing that this is indeed the LAST year for the McKay/Sheppard Awards. Thank you to everyone that has taken part over the past few years through nominations, voting, volunteering and all the kind words of appreciation. Thank you for the patience you've shown over the past year in getting these awards finished and thank you to those that offered kind words of support in this past, hopefully our very last ever, awards mishap. A HUGE thank you to all of the wonderful people that volunteered their time to help vet stories and make sure they were in the proper categories. A HUGEHUGEHUGE thank you to Smuffster for all of her website coding. And a huge thank you to the SGA fandom in general, the McShep faction most particularly, for being so awesome.

***VOTING WILL BE OPEN UNTIL FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6TH, 2009. ***

Please go HERE to REVOTE (ONLY if you voted for Lamardeuse or Crysothemis already).

-forcryinoutloud

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