2009 SHOTY Awards: A New Beginning

Because a full month of SHOTY tournament voting gets a little tiresome, we're making a few changes. Follow along.

• There are only eight nominees, rather than the 16 of years past. • These eight nominees are unseeded. • We will be announcing a nominee a day through next Friday, in alphabetical order. • Voting will begin the morning of Monday, December 14, and a winner will be announced on Wednesday, December 16. • Then everyone can move on with their lives.

Yes, this might be a little jarring to some of you, (CHANGE! BAD! YOU'RE RUINING IT! ETC.) but I've found that SHOTY seems to drag on and on, and by the time you get back from the holiday break, everyone's forgotten who or what or why they're supposed to be voting. So Leitch and I picked 8 people we felt exemplified the true spirit of SHOTY-ness (whatever that is) and we'll just have one big vote at the end so chubby-baby-loving rubes from Kansas can't stuff the ballot and piss everyone off.

Tomorrow, Emeritus will reveal the first nominee.