About a month ago, four of the most popular technology blogs on the whole world (TechCrunch, GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb and VentureBeat) decided to get together and create an award called The Crunchies.
From December 2nd to December 12 they asked users to nominate companies and people for 20 different categories of award. According to their website, the day after the nominations closed they would pick the top 5 of each category and open it for public voting for a month. That would be on December 13th, a Thursday.
Well, that day came and went and nothing was announced.
About 4 days later they actually updated the website and said the chosen companies/people would be revealed and voting would start on Monday, December 17. That came and went and then they said it would be on Wednesday, the 20th (yesterday) -- which also came and went.
So far, there has been absolutely no public statement from any of the organizers (Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Richard McManus and Matt Marshall) and there is a long list of very frustrated entrepreneurs and award-winners-wannabe on the Crunchies website (some very funny comments, some very pathetic ones)
Anyway, I think people are a bit desperate for information, so I thought I would give 5 different explanations for the delay:
Reason for Delay #1:
The most nominated companies/people were PayPerPost, Uncov, BlogNation and Sam Sethi.
Reason for Delay #2:
They forgot to save the nominations into a database or file and now are making up companies and names.
Reason for Delay #3:
They had to actually visit the nominated companies to see what they actually did.
Reason for Delay #4:
There was so many unknown entrepreneurs/CEO nominated they had to do background check on them. God forbid they gave an award to a sex offender.
Reason for Dealy #5:
The Statuetes they promised to deliver during the award ceremony turn out to be too expensive, and now they are looking for more sponsors before they commit to anything.
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