Hugo Nominations Announced

[kproche]

And no, Ready, Steady, Sew! did *not* make it into the Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form category. :-(

However, two other Interaction events *did* get nominated, and the other items in the category are all top-notch. At least one of them was on my nomination form.

So I'm sad that what was probably my only chance to be nominated for a Hugo has passed, but pleased that the category has some excellent nominees whose appropriateness I can't disagree about.

In other words, color me "trying very hard not to be sour grapes about missing out"

The full list is posted over at Emerald City.

Comments

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

Rats.

Sorry About That

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

And I am, too. If I had to pick one of the four Interaction events (I consider the opening & closing ceremonies to be a single two-part production), it would have been Ready, Steady, Sew!. What I think we see here is that while the "BASFA effect" may be present, it takes others to push something into nomination.

I have no inside information, but I would not be surprised to find RSS came close to nomination.

Re: Sorry About That

[kproche.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, hearing that from you helps.

Re: Sorry About That

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I am of course biased toward my own work -- I wrote pieces of "Spaceport Glasgow" besides being part of the production, but I was trying to be objective. I would have been delighted if all four had been nominated.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

BEST INTERACTIVE VIDEO GAME
Category dropped due to lack of interest as per section 3.6 of the WSFS Constitution

WTF?? I was INTERESTED!! Interested in We <3 Katamari!!! Want to see it beat the pants off Final Fantasy X2!!!! >:O

[kproche.livejournal.com]

I nominated "We <3 Katamari" and "Group Captain Suave vs a Very Large Monkey"

If anything was going to win, I wanted it to be something cool that was off the beaten "first person shooter" or "magical quest" path :-)

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Whups, there ya go - that 2nd game's name probably made 'em think none of the nominations were serious.

I still <3 Katamari. :p ^^

[kproche.livejournal.com]

Did you ever try *playing* Captain Suave? Even though it's a flash game, I still haven't made it to the end game.

It absolutely qualified according to their rules.

I even looked up the publishing dates, etc for both games when I filled out the form.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

I bet they didn't even read past the game title.

(No, I haven't played it.)

Viva la Revolución!

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Here's my "show of solidarity" icon... Katamari shall eventually prevail!!!