Slice of SciFi is proud to announce that we have won the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast.
The Parsec Awards ceremony, the podcasting equivalent to the Oscars or Emmy, is held every year during the Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia and is the top award offered for podcasting and vidcasting.
The 2008 Parsec Awards honored podcasters and videocasters in 13 different categories ranging from Best Writing, Best Gaming, Best SF News, Best long and short Drama and more.
On behalf of Mike, Summer, Brian, those who drop by the studio to help out, and my entire news team (the hardest working people in the biz), I would like to extend our congratulations to fellow winners in their respective categories and, most importantly, thanks to all our fans from all over the world for making Slice of SciFi your favorite podcast and Website for SF news, entertainment and fun. All of you are the reason we do this every day and your confidence in us to give you the best news possible makes it all worth while.
Time to party!
Congrats, guys!
Congrats!
Does anyone know the full Parsec results?
The full list of winners can be found at:
http://parsecawards.com/node/542 or by visiting the Events Section on our Website here:
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2008/08/31/all-2008-parsec-award-winners-nominees/
Wow, you won the awards that you and your friends operate and present. Awesome.
Congratulation gang!
You deserve it.
Awesome Job - Well Done!!!!
@Anonymous
WRONG! FarPoint Media helped to create the award, we, however, don't control who is nominated for or wins it! Every award, from Oscar, Emmy Golden Globe etc was created by some organization that oversees it, but they do not control who gets nominated or wins them, the voters do. And, like so few awards, this one is actually voted on by everyday folk who had the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite podcasts and vidcasts online.
Additionally, this is the first time Slice of SciFi has won a Parsec. The show was ineligible the first year of the Parsecs because of Michael R. Mennenga's direct involvement (as were Mur Lafferty's projects that first year), and I'm not sure if it made the finalist list last year.
2007 Parsec Winners
2006 Parsec Winners and Nominees
There are a number of categories where FarPoint Media doesn't even have a finalist, much less a nominee, and all of the finalists are judged by non-podcasting celebrity panels picked by the Parsecs Steering Committee.
I think it's smart to have people who have no involvement in podcasting listen to or watch the content from the finalists and judge based on the quality of what they're hearing or viewing.
Way to go on the Parsec Award! Slice is my best source of sci-fi news and the voice mail show is "da'-bomb".
Thanks for all the Slice crew do week end and week out, you have always been winners in our book.
Congratulations guys! Your show tops my list. I hope the award brings in some new listeners as well.
As a Steering committee member I'll simply add this when we do the raw screen of samples all we judge on is the set of standards sample by sample then once finished we see who is has the top results in category they were a surprise to everyone.
When the nominees went to final judges we took care to make sure each judge could judge the samples without bias and I actually had to change the judges category assignments a few times to ensure balance.
Last final judges and myself were the only ones who know who is assigned to what. The judges don't even know who the other judges in a category are.