DragonLordJones wrote:
well it looks like Masacre received the vest in the mail -
was hoping for an official hand off on the ship, but at least it has been sent to the last winner - here's to 2016

I think it's actually VERY cool that the vest travels the world to reach the winner AND that they sent this pic back for us. Y'know, just like how metalheads travel from all over the world to get to 70K to discover these smaller bands and then the vest travels the world to get into the hands of the winner and then back again to be passed along each year.
Lots of good suggestions in recent posts but yes, these would be best considered and decided upon by the panel members. Maybe they're already doing so in some dark corner of the internet like the Cripper Award Conclave and we'll get the results once the smokestacks spew forth the midnight plumes of ash and metal
My suggestion on the nominee qualification matter is that, if you're gonna use last.fm listens as your criteria, ya limit the NUMBER of entries to a certain amount. So, whether ya end up with 5 bands under 100,000 listens or 30 bands under 100,000 listens, you just take (for example) the 5 or 6 bands with the LEAST number of listens.
Also curious if there's been any update from 70K brass about how involved they want or don't want to be in any of this?