Keks

Now for the grand finale for this years Australian Blog Awards… the winner of the -

Best Overall Australian Blog award goes to….

Reasons You Will Hate Me

beating The Road to Surfdom on a countback when both had 50% of the vote when all other candidates were eliminated. In the round prior, Reasons You Will Hate Me had a slender, 2 vote lead over The Road to Surfdom and the distribution of votes from The Spin Starts Here what only slightly biased towards The Road to Surfdom… just enough to negate the 2 vote lead, but not enough to hand The Road Victory.

In a clear indication of the importance of preferences, the standings prior to distribution of preferences were:

The Spin Starts Here 12.0%
Barista 10.4%
Tim Blair 9.6%
Ausculture 8.0%
The Road to Surfdom 7.2%
Reasons You Will Hate Me 6.4%

The winner of the

 Best NSW Blog
with 54.2% of votes after distribution of preferences is…

Darpism

She Sells Sanctuary only managing second place this year with 45.8% of votes after distribution of preferences.

Prior to distribution of preferences Darpism had 14.4%, Tim Blair had 12.2% and She Sells Sanctuary had 10.0% of the vote. Tim Blair suffering at the hands of the preferential voting system.

The award for the

 Best Victorian Blog
with 52.6% of votes after distribution of preferences goes to…

Barista

The Spin Starts Here takes out the runners-up spot with 47.4% of votes after distribution of preferences.

Prior to distribution of preferences the figures were 19.1% and 14.6% of the vote respectively.

The winner in the category of-

 Best Tasmanian Blog
with 64.3% of votes after distribution of preferences is…

Piss’n’Vinegar

Second place goes to Red Interior
who got 35.7% of votes after distribution of preferences.

Prior to distribution of preferences the figures were 40.4% and 21.2% of the vote respectively.

The winner of the -

 Best Queensland Blog
with 55.6% of the votes after distribution of preferences is…

John Quiggin

Second place goes to Dawei’s House of Debauchery and Beeyotching who had 44.4% of the votes after distribution of preferences.

Prior to distribution of preferences they had 32.9% and 24.3% of the vote respectively.