Live stream...

[xenith]

Watching the tweets about the live stream from the Hugos, I remembered how in 2002 we went straight from the ceremony to the internet lounge so we could be the first to post the results on sff.cons.worldcon (That's a newsgroup.) Do they even have internet lounges at cons now?

Of course, if I'm thinking about live feeds from awards, I have to think about the Nebula Awards in May, 1998. SFF Net arranged to have a live feed, by hooking Vonda McIntyre up with a computer, dial-up of course, and having her type a running commentary of events during an IRC chat.

And it went very well, except for a slight hiccup during the "Best Novel" presentation. I'll include that bit below.


(Formatting of nominee list changed slightly to allow for different medium.)

<Info> ***************************************************
<Info> Nominees for 1997 Nebula Award:
<Info> Best Novel
<Info> ***************************************************
<Info> * A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
<Info> * (Bantam Spectra, Aug96)
<Info> * Ancient Shores, Jack McDevitt
<Info> * (HarperPrism, Apr96)
<Info> * Bellwether, Connie Willis
<Info> * (Bantam Spectra, Apr96)
<Info> * City On Fire, Walter Jon Williams
<Info> * (HarperPrism, Jan97)
<Info> * King's Dragon, Kate Elliot
<Info> * (DAW, Feb97)
<Info> * Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
<Info> * (Baen, Oct96)
<Info> * The Moon and the Sun, Vonda N. Mcintyre
<Info> * (Pocket Books, Sep97)
<Info> ***************************************************
<Vonda> Jerry says it's a wish fulfilment story... and tonight that's really true.
<Moderator> Good luck, Vonda!
<Vanguard-> Belated congratulations from the Great Northwest for our hometown boy!
<Moderator> Sure is, that was a wonderful story.
<Vanguard-> Fingers crossed in Seattle for Vonda!
<Djonn> Novel is hard to call.
<Vonda> He thanks Kathy, his wife;
<JeffryD> Don't care about predictions, I'm rooting for Vonda!
<Vonda> Stanley Schmidt of Analog.
<Djonn> I'm also rooting for Vonda. And I think she has a shot at it, too.
<Vonda> And finally, KK Rusch, who read it at 5000 words and said "It's silly to stop halfway to the moon."
<Kent> Me too, Jeffry. However ... betting against Connie Willis seems kinda futile. ;)
<Christoph> Righto.
<Vonda> Now for the novel.
<Djonn> Kent: The question is whether Willis and Bujold will split votes and choke.
<Lois> good point.
<Vonda> Presenter is Fred Saberhagen.
<Robt> Yeah but if so, then McDevitt and Williams have a chance
<MMF> Hang in there, Vonda -- you're doing great!
<Keith> I really like McDevitt's story
<Vanguard-> More held breath in Seattle...
<Vonda> Nominees are --?
<Djonn> Actually, the only novel I think probably *can't* win is the Elliot, demographically.
<Moderator> did it earlier
<Robt> Djonn: agree
<Vonda> And the winner is...
<Moderator> scroll up for nominees
<Vonda> y;ie
<Vanguard-> ???
<Terry> <strangled sound>
<Marilee> She fainted?
<Djonn> That sounds like a Seattle win to me....
<MMF> What's happening?
<pff3> hahaha
<shred> Vonda won.
<Kent> Vonda won!

The whole transcript used to be available on line somewhere. And there it is.

Comments

[monissaw.livejournal.com]

Oops. I meant at Worldcons, I'll have to fix that

I had the same thought about the authors too. Mostly I don't bother looking at the names because they won't mean anything to me.