>>>Last week at the German DevCon, two more long-time VFP gurus were given Lifetime Achievement awards: Jürgen Wondzinski (aka wOOdy) and Christof Wollenhaupt. Congratulations to both!
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>>My understanding is YOU were in charge of "Lifetime awards". How did these two recipients get "out of scope"?
>>I agree with the awards, just not sure why there are two "contests".
>>P.S. You only make announcements here, you never seem to come back for follow ups. But that is fine.
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>My guess is that since since Woody and Christof are both German, Doug wanted to present the awards in Germany. It hardly seems sinister to me. I can see why Doug has been reacting to some of the comments here like "no good deed goes unpunished."

My understanding was that we vote, the winners are announced and that was that. No "surprise winner" was ever in the original scheme. What about Spain or India? Will there be winners for those countries too announced soon? Or Canada for that matter. :-).