{"id":13313,"date":"2010-09-27T18:05:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/09\/27\/13313.html"},"modified":"2010-09-27T18:05:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:05:50","slug":"hugo-nominating-ties-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/09\/27\/hugo-nominating-ties-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo nominating ties this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was looking at this year's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiecon4.org\/hugoawards\/files\/2010HugoVotingReport.pdf\">Hugo voting report<\/a> (PDF) just now, and was surprised at the number of nomination ties in the fiction categories. (See pp. 18-19 of that report.)<\/p>\n<p>Background: In a year with no ties, there are twenty prose fiction works on the ballot, five works in each of the four fiction categories. But if there's a tie for fifth-highest number of nominating votes in a categeory, then all the tied nominees are put on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>For a while, there was at least one tie every year, resulting in at least 21 works on the ballot; but there've been no ties for the past five years. (At least, no ties that resulted in more than five works in a category; I haven't checked whether there were ties that didn't affect the number of works on the ballot, which there could well have been.)<\/p>\n<p>But this year, there were ties in three of the four categories. Two novels tied; three novellas tied; and <em>four<\/em> novelettes tied. Rather unusual. For details of numbers of nominating ballots, see the abovelinked report.<\/p>\n<p>I have no conclusions or even interesting theories about this; just was surprised and thought it was interesting enough to post about. (I'm guessing there's been plenty of discussion of this in various places, but I haven't seen it.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at this year&#8217;s Hugo voting report (PDF) just now, and was surprised at the number of nomination&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}