I never bothered joining the Internet related awards since I find the whole thing as geek’s version of “Beauty Pageant”. You need connections, popularity and major shameless whoring. What I like about this particular award are the after-awards controversies where the aggrieved bloggers blogged about their experience. I find it a bit entertaining though. I read about this in Brian Gorrell’s blog.
To be honest, most of the winners deserves their award. However, it’s the special awards that seemed a bit off particularly in the special gaming category. Let’s just say that the winner of that particular award is more like a Wiki page rather than a blog. Heck it even runs on wiki platform.But then again it’s Level up’s award but they should let their community members give their votes also to avoid the tasty recipe called “Lutong Macaw” (Slang for Fraud and Cheat).
Level UP! Gaming Blog of The Year : Just Perfect: Perfect World
Congrats to the winner for making wiki platform as an alternative blogging platform. Bravo! Bravo!
The official nominees:
http://games.tesstermulo.com/
http://janelh.wikidot.com/ <–Wiki for Teh WINS!!
http://nitramy.blogspot.com/
http://kendingkamias.com/
http://perfectworldphils.blogspot.com/
http://sungitko.blogspot.com/
http://zoneplug.blogspot.com/
http://www.masterdiwa.com/ <– He deserves the AWARD! Ironically since he is One of the level up game heroes.
READ OTHER BLOGGERS’ TAKE ON THE SPECIAL AWARDS
http://jepoy.bengero.com/2008/09/level-up-gaming-blog-award-finalists.html
http://www.gameops.net/2008/09/my-thoughts-on-philippine-blog-awards-2.html
I hate to sound like a major bitch but since when did Philippines have some credibility when it comes to giving awards or let alone conduct a cheat-free contest. Our Miss World Candidate can’t even speak legible sentence but her “Oral” skills are superb. Our Olympic delegates can’t make it to the finals. But other impoverished countries managed to bag a single gold medal while we can’t despite uber budget and commercial endorsements. Our election system are a joke too!
Despite the flaws, imbecile politicians and all, Philippines is still a beautiful place to live in. =) Mabuhay!
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2 Responses to “Philippine Blog Awards Special awards – Rigged or not?”
September 26th, 2008 at 6:16 am
welcome to the world of bitter ocampos
I have a followup on that simple issue which escalated into personal insults,
http://jepoy.bengero.com/2008/09/my-turn-in-defense-of-my-friend-rocky.html
September 27th, 2008 at 7:18 am
Precisely. That’s why I keep my distance from the awards. Irregularities can’t be avoided. I wish they’ll just hand out the special awards if the winner is already pre-selected instead of letting other people go through the hassle of nomination just to make it “look fair”.