As much as I love these awards, it has become clear to me that I do not have what it takes to run them properly. Perhaps I chose an impossible format from the very start, or maybe I just lack the energy, timing, or charisma to make this one work, but what's clear is that I'm getting something wrong. For all three years that I've run them, the Proshes have been several months late; all three years, I hoped at the beginning that I'd post the results before the end of the year that the submissions were entered, and this is the earliest (early in the 4th month of the following year) they've ever been posted. This sort of lateness should be preventable, IMO, in an affair as small as this one, even when it was as large as the 1999 round. For 2001, I tried restricting the number of submissions in order to make the judges' job easier (and since I did it in 1999, I know it's a hard one to do), but the restrictions seem to have scared away most of the writers, so getting submissions was like pulling teeth. And even when hacked down to a fraction of even the first year's size, the results are late.

For these reasons, I'm looking for someone to take this thing over. Someone who can either solicit more submissions, find more judges who have enough time on their hands to do this, and then motivate them to finish before the end of the year, or someone who can slap this thing into a format that doesn't take insanely long to do. I don't want to see the Proshes become an X-Force-oriented clone of the CBFFA's, though. Leave the CBFFA format to the CBFFA's themselves. :) If no one responds to this, then I'll just post the Hall of Fame, leave the site as it is for as long as Yahoo! doesn't try to pull the rug out from under me, and be done with it. That's not necessarily a bad thing; I think it's pretty cool that the Proshes have just gone through their third round in a period of 4 years. When I first came up with the idea, I don't think I pictured this running for as long as it has. So if it retires, no big deal. If you want it to continue, however, and you want to be the one who keeps it going, email me here. If you want to co-organize the awards with me, then I'll stay on to give you some assistance and guidance, but you'll be expected to do most of the work.

Now go look at the 2001 results.

--Red Monster