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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: Is it just me?
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:35:16 GMT
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Dan Schmidt  <dfan@harmonixmusic.com> wrote:
>| during a given year, be awarded at the time when the Comp results are
>| in (or the next year, if the release is too close to the IF comp to be
>| played through entirely)
>
>Like the XYZZY awards?
>
>| I think I might have seen something like that, besides the usual
>| reviews, but if it exists, it certainly doesn't seem to have the
>| same kind of exposure than the classic annual IF comp.
>
>I dunno, they seem to have a pretty high profile in the community.
>There are always tons of people at the awards ceremony, for example.

There are at least two different communities.  IIRC, the results of
the last XYZZY were never released on r*if, nor even a pointer to
the web page after they occurred.  (Though, again IIRC, the publishing
of the nominations was announced.)

SeanB
(Publishing on the web is well and good, but it's not a community.)
