AAANNNNDDDD.....

We didn't get nominated. Such is life. We're the new kids on the block and no one has heard of us so it's not that surprising really (all the nominees in animation had 400k to 1.5m views on their episodes and one of them was even created by Tom Hanks, so a bit of a David/Goliath situation for us). I imagine with the number of submissions that the nominators couldn't take the time to watch through all the stuff they hadn't heard of. I'm not taking it as a knock against our show because I still believe our quality was on par with the stuff that was nominated ahead of us.

That said, we were kind of outgunned. I think the web is quickly losing its identity as a place for independent productions. Lots of big names and production companies were up for consideration, many garnering nods. And that's not even counting shows like "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome" (a SyFy original series) or "Forward Unto Dawn" (A Halo sponsored series) that won't be eligible until next years awards, but are blowing the standard for web content even higher with their incredible production value.

When you're a baby web series going up against 10 year old Red vs Blue and Tom Hanks in animation, and Jane Espenson (Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls) in writing, which we felt were our strongest chances, I don't know if we can realistically hope to compete without at least a larger awareness of the show.

We still have the Machinima festival coming up and that's the bigger deal for us anyways. We feel stronger about our chances of being accepted there too. The Machinima festival could lead to the exposure we've been sorely hoping for since we launched. We should be hearing back on that at some point in the next couple weeks so keep us in your prayers.

We're gonna keep getting better and hopefully we can release the second season in time to submit for next years awards. Maybe they'll have heard of us by then.