All decisions are final and the judge need offer no justification or defence of his decisions.
This year the initial long-list for the “Pencil of Shame” had three pencils on it. However the panel immediately decided against short-listing the Stabilo ‘s move easyergo and Beifa MC1002 - bad names and rotten erasers do not make a truly bad pencil. That left only one nomination, and after some deliberation the judge decided to award the “Pencil of Shame” to the eMicro Jedo M105.
Whilst a few candidates were initially discussed, ultimately the judge decided that this year there was (thankfully) no need to award any “Last Nights Left Over Warm Flat Stale Ale” prizes.
On the flipside the judge was happy to consider several nominees for a “Bonus Slice of Pav”, and decided to dish out two slices – one to the Vespiary notebook and the other to Ancient Kauri pencils. Then in an impulsive move a third slice was awarded, to Uni Nano Dia leads - the judge appreciated your efforts.
For the supreme award, the “Morden-Hayakawa Trophy”, the judge felt that overall the calibre of this years candidates was perhaps down a little on last year, but from the initial field of 18 candidates, 9 nominees that made it through to the short list.
- Cross Tech 3 multi pen
- Faber-Castell Propelling pencil
- Lamy Accent
- Pentel Smash Q1005
- Pentel ‘The Bat’
- Rotring Tikky
- Stabilo ‘s move easyergo
- Uni Shift 1010
- Zebra Tect 2way
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3 comments:
Uuuuh, for me the Mordan-Hayakawa-Award feels like: "The Oscar for the main actress goes to http://possumstew.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/miss_piggy.jpg "
With great nominees for the award the Faber-Castell Drehbleistift Propelling Pencil winning the Supreme DMP award is a surprise for me, and probably many other readers. Thick lead and retractable sleeve for this price sounds exciting. I hope I will see one in the shops soon...
i agree with your pencil of shame, there are way to many pentel 205 copycats out there.
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