Hugo Announcement Event This Saturday

[kevin_standlee]

In more pleasant news, the 2013 Hugo Award Nominations will be announced this coming weekend and The Hugo Awards Website will be covering it live. I'll be hosting CoverItLive coverage of the nomination announcements, which will be taking place live at four conventions in the USA and UK (Norwescon, Minicon, Marcon, and Eastercon). There will not be a video stream of the event, but as we get the results per category, we'll be posting them in the CIL event, and of course we'll have the full list up on the web site shortly afterwards.

The announcements start at 1 PM PDT Saturday (3 PM CDT/4 PM EDT/8 PM GMT). We'll be "on the air" with our coverage a few minutes before the results start rolling out. You can go to the event page and enter your e-mail to receive a reminder of the event.

(No, I won't be making a flying visit to the UK or even to Seattle — in my current condition, it's just as well — I'll be hosting the coverage from here in my living room, making the best to work with LoneStarCon 3 to get the word out in a coordinated fashion.)

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Agreed. You need to wait for the formal announcement and the associated details. You can talk about that. Anything the Administrators don't release is supposed to be held back, possibly until the final results later this year.

Every year about this time we get people who look at the nominations and immediately demand to know how many nomination votes each nominee got and seem affronted that this isn't released until after the final results come out at Worldcon. I think that at best these people have seen final results before and have conflated that announcement with this one coming up this weekend.