Hugo ceremony and initial statistics
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psocopteraThe ceremony moved along nicely but the pronunciation problems were *not cool*. Did not seem like they had practiced or received adequate guidance. At one point I swear one of them misread "Hans" as "Harris" - an easy visual misread but exactly the kind of thing that should have been caught in rehearsal.
We have some preliminary stats - no nominating stats or runner-up runoffs, just the runoffs for first place. See them here. There's also an Administrators' Report (here) with some info about nomination votes they moved between categories and qualifications/disqualifications.
I'm not sure what to make of total numbers. They said something during the ceremony like 1900 final ballots - compared with 3436 in 2024, a huge drop-off (I said something last night about it being 3800 in 2024 but that was the number before disqualified votes), but then if you look by categories, 2189 votes for novels in 2024, or 2558 votes for novella (the category with the most votes) vs... I guess we don't know exactly, but if "over 80% of voters voted in the Best Novel category" (in 2025) that's probably something like 1600 votes? I guess that's still a pretty significant drop, but not quite as huge as I was thinking at first. Is this the Chinese cohort dropping out? 1338 nominating votes in 2025 vs 1720 in 2024, so a bunch of that drop is already there in nominations, whatever it is.
Category-wise, I'm surprised to see Tainted Cup leading the pack from the start, and Tusks of Extinction as well. Interesting. Interesting to see which categories had strong leads from the start and which had changes through the rounds - the flow diagrams are really nice for that. Check out Moniquill Blackgoose's dominance for the Astounding - nice.
We have some preliminary stats - no nominating stats or runner-up runoffs, just the runoffs for first place. See them here. There's also an Administrators' Report (here) with some info about nomination votes they moved between categories and qualifications/disqualifications.
I'm not sure what to make of total numbers. They said something during the ceremony like 1900 final ballots - compared with 3436 in 2024, a huge drop-off (I said something last night about it being 3800 in 2024 but that was the number before disqualified votes), but then if you look by categories, 2189 votes for novels in 2024, or 2558 votes for novella (the category with the most votes) vs... I guess we don't know exactly, but if "over 80% of voters voted in the Best Novel category" (in 2025) that's probably something like 1600 votes? I guess that's still a pretty significant drop, but not quite as huge as I was thinking at first. Is this the Chinese cohort dropping out? 1338 nominating votes in 2025 vs 1720 in 2024, so a bunch of that drop is already there in nominations, whatever it is.
Category-wise, I'm surprised to see Tainted Cup leading the pack from the start, and Tusks of Extinction as well. Interesting. Interesting to see which categories had strong leads from the start and which had changes through the rounds - the flow diagrams are really nice for that. Check out Moniquill Blackgoose's dominance for the Astounding - nice.
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Date: 2025-08-18 02:00 am (UTC)Turns out the last several years (not counting 2023) have varied between about 2,200 and about 3,800 final votes. (https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/) But this year is 10% lower than the 2,200 years.
Adding up the votes in the first column of this year’s Novel table gives 1,658 votes in the Novel category.
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