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Well, that's all for now, folks!
Congratulations to all the winners, as well as to all the nominees who put up such a good fight.
Winning certainly didn't come easy this year!

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A great thank you, too, to everyone who sent in their nominations and their votes – without you guys, there wouldn't be a PBA!
And it's great to see so much enthusiasm, year after year after year,
and every time with new people joining in!

Another great thank you to Bits and Pieces, Hogan MacGyver, ColHogan, Canadian Hogan's Fan, All-things, and reserve crew Dust on the Wind,
who made this fun competition possible this year with their invaluable help.

And of course our helpful PBA committee:
Jinzle, Jodm, Marie1964, Snooky-9093 and Sgt. Moffitt –
they've had a few interesting things to discuss this year!
Thank you so much for your input!

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For the winners: could you please report by email to papabearawards at yahoo dot com in order to get your award(s) sent out?

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The winning stories (gold, silver and bronze!) will shortly be included in the ffnet community with the PBA winners from the past years.

They will some time in the foreseeable future be listed on the PBA website as well, but I can't promise you when I'll get around to do that ;-)

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So now we're back to happily reading. And writing.
And yes, I promise there will be more to the camp-out story. (um... what camp-out story? ;-P)
which means this particular Mission Briefing isn't quite finished yet.

But then, neither is this year's PBA until we figure out a solution for the international category.
I'll keep you up to date!

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Thank you all for your infectious enthusiasm, and I hope to see your new stories, nominations and votes again next time around!

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And a bit of curiosity from my side:

now that you've experienced it, what is your opinion on the set-up we used this year: with "nominate 1, vote for 3"?

And how did you experience the size of the categories in the voting round this year – were they manageable, or still too large to handle?

Personally, I'd love to discuss that in the group – for example on the forum.
These questions, as well as any other practical and organizational input from the users' side.
We've even got a special PBA thread on Tirathon's forum here on ffnet, if you look down the threadlist a fair bit...

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So thanks again everyone, and enjoy your reading!

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Your thoroughly embarrassed librarian

konarciq
(who would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who voted for her work!
Golly... so many awards for it? ! ?)

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And a little teaser here...

Did you notice anything back in chapter 20 - the nominated quotes?

There is something special about their order:
these totally unrelated quotes suddenly make up small little HH scenes when read together!

Can you spot what's going on there?