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As Jaime pointed out a few weeks ago, I never shared the final results of the Best of Shyzer. Allow me to do so now. The method for determining the winner was simple. I created an Excel spreadsheet and entered the individual results as they were submitted to me. At the end of the spreadsheet, I tallied the votes for each post and divided the final number by how many votes there were. So in essence, the best score possible was a 1 while the worst score was a 5. Also, if you haven’t noticed by now, I turned this whole voting thing into a subpage over there on the left for any and all newcomers to Shyzer so that they too can experience the Best of Shyzer. And now, for the results.

*drumroll please*

Coming in 5th place, with a much higher than expected score of 3.4, was Part I & Part II of The Creation Education Science Fair. Fellner might be shocked to see this post this low, but I think it got such a low score because people didn’t want to go back and read a lot.

In 4th place was Reunion, Part I and Reunion, Part III. with a final score of 3.26. I personally would have ranked this higher, but hey, it’s not my call.

Capturing the Bronze Medal with a surprisingly low score of 2.866 was The Catch. I didn’t even think this would make the final 5, much less become a medallist, but I was most pleasantly wrong.

Our Silver Medallist finished with a score of 2.8, beating The Catch out by one single point. Who was the lucky bastard? None other than Only In Spartanburg. Goes to show that the people always love humor.

And finally, our Gold Medallist, who finished with a score of 2.6 and received over 25% of the first place votes. I can’t say I’m shocked at all because Tan Nguyen and Week 1 were winners from the start. God I’d do anything to have Tan back with us, but until that day we meet again, all I can do is share his memory with the rest of the world.

Just for fun, I went back and looked at all the voting patterns to see if anybody happened to vote exactly the way the final results ended up. Not a one. So I went back and looked to see if anybody got three posts in the correct position (and thereby flipping two other posts incorrectly) and I came back with some results. Jess (1,3,5) and Clay (1,2,3) both nailed three in their correct spots, so congrats to you two. But Clay, I deem you the winner since you were the only person to accurately vote for the top 3 posts in their correct final positions. So way to go Clay for knowing what the public likes and voting along with them. =)

Oh, and Andy, you were the only person not to get a single one right. Congrats on that as well! VALIDATION!

Thank you so much for all those who voted. Sorry it took me so long to post the results, but you know how it goes with me. Seriously though, I wouldn’t have been able to pick or rank these on my own so I couldn’t have done this without any of you. Thanks again.