>The way I understand it, it's your lead in conjunction with your product team.

That may be so, but in the case of us C# MVPs, we got handed around 3 times in less than a year since Rafael left. First Ed Hickey (and I wish we could have stayed with him!!), then Gary Wilson, then lastly Jake Grey ... who came on board just as they asked for us to send them info as to our community contributions for re-evaluation. I doubt if Jake had much of any input into the process since he didn't even know any of us. Maybe I didn't suck up to him enough. ;-)

It stinks, but that's the way it is. Gary told me that way back when, when he was an MVP and they weren't going to renew him (he had had medical problems at the time and wasn't participating as much as he normally did), that there was such a stink raised from other MVPs that they went ahead and reinstated him after they had dropped him. Twice. ;-)

~~Bonnie