Nominations started on Sept 1st and lasted until the 1st of October, all you had to do with choose a comic and a reason. From the 1st until the 14th you can login to vote and after that was judging.

It was completely my mistake to ’screen’ the nominations, we had planned it, we even made judge notes to do so but in the hustle and bustle it never got done, totally my bad. Hence why XKCD was still there. We “did” however make a unanimous judges vote to bump them out of the award winning areas which is why you saw them at 6th place.

The reason we had so many awards *this* year was really because of the amount of the way the judges voting took place; which we’ll revamp of course next year. When comparing the bottom to the next one up it meant that the one above could only fall down one slot and that meant some really good webcomics that really desere the nod weren’t going to receive it.

I figure there was a domination of the comics is because of the popularity vote and how we went from the bottom / less voted and then up comparing which was better to the other, leaving the popular at the top; hence the webcomic “readers” choice awards, the readers/voters need to have a higher weight.

Next year there should be some significant changes including screening out nominations that just do not fit.

All in all I consider it a success mainly because I found out from various emails from readers that they have found some new and good comics to read; which was my main goal for hosting the WCRCA’s to begin with.

- Phil (Frumph)