COA Awards

[ffutures]

Up late and decided to check Twisting the Hellmough, and found that the results of the Crossing Over Awards are up. It turns out I have a little good news - Grounds For Divorce won Best Highlander Crossover - Buffy / Highlander, it's a prequel to a couple of other stories.

Unfortunately I'm not very impressed by most of the other winners this year; a couple of good ones, but some dreadful turkeys and a lot of mediocrity. I'm appalled at the results of both of the non-Buffy categories - I didn't expect to win, because there were some other excellent nominees, but none of them won either; in fact I think only one of the thirty or so stories I nominated and/or voted for won in its category. I think need to think carefully about whether I accept nominations next time around, I'm not sure I can take this seriously any more.

Commiserations in particular to mhalachaiswords, curiouswombat and speakr2customrs, all of whom deserved to do much better.

Later - OK, blame the late night for me not realising that mhalachaiswords won the Non-BtVS / Non crossover category - I was so focused on the crossover category, and on my nominees, that I really missed that one. MANY apologies!

Comments

[juliet316]

Congrats on the award you did win!

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Thanks - sorry to sound so grouchy.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Huh. Well, one of mine won (by 2 votes so I'm glad I voted myself) so it's not a total loss. Esp. considering the runner-up had three times the reviews and over 10x the hits O_o

Congrats on your win!

It's one of those markers of time passing after the end of a show - the great fic writers move into new fandoms. Tis sad but true.

I'm not calling myself great - I mean the real superstars out there who are no longer on TTH.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

You're probably right - just REALLY not impressed with most of the winners this time.

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And feel REALLY stupid since I evidently glazed over what had won the non-BtVS stories once I'd seen what won the non-BtVS crossovers!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on yours - well done! Some of the other winners are good - but I totally agree about some of them being dross - it's sad that there must be people who like it...

S2C points out that the 'most nominations' winner (which won other things too) even had typos in the chapter titles...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one boggles me too.

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

I can't disagree with you; I was hard-put to find stories to vote for in some categories, and some of the winners are just pants. I get the impression that there are a few coteries of friends around encouraging each other who really ought to know better. I recognise some of them from other fandoms.