Why Do Some Categories Have (More|Less) Finalists?

By BWA Staff | Comments

• categories
• voting

The short answer? MOST PEOPLE DID NOT READ THE CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS BEFORE VOTING.

The long answer? An issue we ran into this year is that some categories did not receive as many nominations as others, and so, we had to adjust the finalists in those categories accordingly. For this year, you’ll see that there are only two finalists for Best Business Blog, because the other 36 blogs nominated did not fit the criteria of that category. For Best Celebrity Blog, we only had four nominees that could be considered real celebrities that actually maintained their own blog (not a fansite or celeb gossip) out of the 82 blogs nominated for that category. And for the Black Blogger Achievement Award, only four out of the 120 blogs nominated had actually been blogging since January 1, 2003, as stipulated in the category description.

Still asking or wondering why? Read the short answer again.