Well, the votes have been tallied, and had I just had another 70 votes (or almost doubled my tally), I'd be celebrating my win as Best New Blog in Canada for 2004!!

Alas, it was not to be: Instead of making history, I became a historical footnote by finishing tied for fifth. But congrats to Japnaam Singh, who did win the coveted designation.

However, it's interesting what he had to say about it:

Hmm... I didn't deserve to win (for Best New Blog), but I did anyway. Babbling Brooks, And Gods of the Copybook Headings are both better blogs, and a couple of other blogs were probably better too, but it doesn't really matter about who's better, does it?

I ran a better campaign.

This was supposed to be a victory post, but I think I need to comment on the awards competition itself.

Robert Mcclelland made the mistake of turning the awards competition into a democratic experiment. And as we all know, democracy is pretty overrated (kidding).

My campaign team reverted to tactics which exploited the system, since the majority of my votes came from Sikh Youths who read my blog, while being completely unfamiliar with the rest of my opponents. Sort of like the party nomination contests that people in my community are infamous for taking advantage of -- except it was less corrupt and immoral.

Robert McClelland runs MyBlahg and set up this awards thingee (click that link to see all the entries and how the vote went).

Singh feels it would be better to have members of the blogging elite judge the various blogs and hand out badges of honour that way. I would endorse that.

Anyways, if you liked this blog and voted for it, thanks for the support! If you didn't vote for it, but come and hang out every once in a while and enjoy the content, I'm cool with that too. :)

Congrats to the winners and commiserations to those others who finished in second through Xth place in their categories.