Hello everyone. I am here with Harvey the Wonder Hamster to explain the rules and procedures for the WOWAY Awards.
Ok, everyone! Are you ready to sing the Harvey the Wonder Hamster theme song? Of course you are! [crickets] Uh, folks, it's in his contract, so we gotta, ok? Here we go!
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Thanks, folks! We at Ernst and Finklestein would like to thank the WOWAY administration for their continued faith in us. We understand there was some concern in the past about award procedures. However, we assure you that the smiling blue-eyed pile of clothing involved in the unfortunate incident is no longer with us. More importantly, no results were ever compromised as a result of our ex-employee’s lack of knowledge.
With that, let’s continue with the explanation of the rules.
The WOWAY Awards are given to members of the World of Weird Al Yankovic Forum on a yearly or, whenever is convenient basis. Awards are given to members in 27 categories during the period of eligibility which for these awards was August 27, 2008 until November 15, 2009 except for the Post of the Year category whose period ended December 4, 2009.
No, Harvey, it wasn’t extended because of Fred. A couple of his posts simply became eligible. The extension was due to the forum upgrade and the search engine that was temporarily FUBAR.
Nominations worked in the following manner:
One or more categories were put up for nomination each day. Forum members could nominate someone other than themselves for each category. When another member seconded a nomination it was set in stone as an official nomination for the category.
For example, Best Avatar was one category. Say The Dingo nominates AAA_Amerah’s Spaghetti Cat. Then someone had to second the nomination (in this case let’s say MissyMoo38 does so). Now officially, the Spaghetti Cat avatar is a nominee.
I’m glad you liked the taco avatar, Harvey, but all the nominees in this category were great.
Nominations took place until December 11, 2009 and then there was a final call for nominees. TMBJon, as administrator of the awards, reserved the right to add up to one additional nominee per category without further feedback. This was done in order to balance out categories that seemed too heavily favored in one direction.
Yes, Harvey, TMBJon is a valued member of the forum and the esteemed administrator of these awards. It is not surprising he received several nominations.
After nominations were finalized, a final ballot was given to forum members to submit. Voting commenced until December 24, 2009 at 11:59PM EST. The ballots were tallied via online poll software and the results revealed during the WOWAY Award ceremony. Until this ceremony, the winners were not known to anyone except TMBJon, myself, one other select representative at Ernst and Finklestein, and to Harvey, of course. This online vote collecting procedure guaranteed no mayhem, foolishness, or hanging chads.
The ceremony takes place here on the World of Weird Al Yankovic forum as opposed to a physical place. Having the ceremony at a physical place would be illogical. You think this outfit could have afforded to rent the Kodak Theatre? Whose bank account do you think they have? Al’s? You all know TMBJon and Bruce the Duck would fight the whole time, The Dingo would show up with no pants…well, you can see what potential disasters could ensue.
Thanks to WHiZZi and the whole WOWAY crew for allowing us to interrupt this prestigious award show. May the forum craziness and Al worship continue. Say goodbye, Harvey.
