>I agree about Sergey, but keep in mind that the award is for community contributions in all areas (presentations, blogging, authoring, forum presence, etc.), not just the UT. So, if some new person pops up and the sum total of what they do in other places is more than what another person does in one place, then there may be one new MVP and one more defrocked one.

Well, when I first got my MVP award in 2003, pretty much the only place I participated in forums was the UT. I had started branching out to some of the other forums round about then, but I'd say that 95% of my online presence was right here on the UT. And that is *all* I did ... no presentations, no blogging, no authoring ... strictly forum presence.

I have subsequently participated more in other forums and some authoring (my Tips column in the ill-fated Level Extreme .NET magazine, which hasn't published an issue since April ... but I digress).

So obviously things have changed if what I have been doing all along is no longer enough. =0(

~~Bonnie