Lonely Planet Labs

How we’re working out the votes for the awards

Matthew CashmoreLonely Planet author

I thought it may be prudent to explain exactly how voting is going to work for the LP Travel Blogger Awards - we think this is the fairest method that tries to stomp on any mass automatic voting that may happen. This is not a popularity contest. We will make every effort to remove fraudulent votes, but this system allows us to ensure that no matter how many votes a blog receives, we balance them out and ensure the awards are fair.

Public voting will make up 50% of the overall score, the judges votes will make up the remaining 50%.

Once public voting has finished we will award ‘points’ in the following way:

• 1st - 10 points
• 2nd - 7 points
• 3rd - 5 points
• 4th - 3 points
• 5th - 1 point

for each category.

The judges will award 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each category - points will be awarded:

• 1st - 10 points
• 2nd - 7 points
• 3rd - 5 points

The individual judge’s scores will be added up to make a total judges’ score for each blog, and for each category the winners will be awarded:

• 1st - 10 points
• 2nd - 7 points
• 3rd - 5 points
• 4th - 3 points
• 5th - 1 point

Judges’ scores will then be added to the public scores (max score 20 points) and winners will be the blogs with the most overall points. In the event of a tie-break my decision (Matthew Cashmore) will be final.

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