rorydelargy
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Of course it has.
The Annual Netprophet Internet Awards
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Wasn't it just!!! :laughing:
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Brilliant news! Well done TH! :clap: :clap:
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Where are the full results published, Galileo?
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Apparently, these are the results:
1. Website of the year: marktompkins.com
2. Best bookmaker site: Ladborkes
3. Best exchange: WBX
4. Best spread betting site: sportingindex.com
5. Best poker site: pokerstras.com/partypoker.com
6. Best casino site: 888.com
7. Best fansite/non-commercial site/racing or betting blog/forum: 121s.com (this is actually WBX)
8. Best racing industry site - racecourse/trainer/jockey/stud: kimbaileyracing.com
9. Worst customer service: Betfair
10. Worst site reliability: Betfair
1. Website of the year: marktompkins.com
2. Best bookmaker site: Ladborkes
3. Best exchange: WBX
4. Best spread betting site: sportingindex.com
5. Best poker site: pokerstras.com/partypoker.com
6. Best casino site: 888.com
7. Best fansite/non-commercial site/racing or betting blog/forum: 121s.com (this is actually WBX)
8. Best racing industry site - racecourse/trainer/jockey/stud: kimbaileyracing.com
9. Worst customer service: Betfair
10. Worst site reliability: Betfair
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That is the best joke I've heard in ages and cast iron proof IMO that any votes were completely rigged. WBX? WTF??!?!?!?!?! shrug:: shrug:: :laughing:
rorydelargy
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I think we'd have won if our stamina hadn't given out
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Thanks, Betsmate.
The announcement here in full, courtesy of The Racing Post:
AND THE WINNERS ARE . . .
Alex Hankin
BRUCE FORSYTH, Kylie Minogue, Kofi Annan – just three of the cast of international notables too busy to attend the glittering Annual Netprophet Internet Awards booze-up. They'll be kicking themselves now.
Yes, we were a tad light on celebrities last Monday night at the Dartford Bowlarama and Conference Centre, but those who did turn up – Vladimir Putin and a Chuckle Brother, since you ask – were treated to a dustbinful of the old homebrew and a nevertheless memorable racing tussle.
Your votes were requested in ten categories, the aim to crown the best and worst of the racing andbetting web in 2007 (excepting the Racing Post's own sites, which were ineligible for obvious reasons). Hundreds of you took the trouble to make your voice heard, for which sincere thanks.
As in previous years, the stewards' panel – wilful and capricious as a drunken bridesmaid – sifted the pile of ballot papers, adjudicating as the fancy of a moment took them.
Two titans of the Turf emerged from this chaos to race for the overall title. What a tear-up it was.
In stall one, Kim Bailey (kimbaileyracing.com); in two, Ferdy Murphy (ferdymurphyracing.com). And you'd have had your last tangerine on Bailey taking this unchallenged after seeing him power away when the tapes rose. Murphy planted. Bailey stretched into the distance. Uncatchable, right upuntil he was caught.
The tortoise Murphy hoisted up his shell and legged off in pursuit, making up the ground relentlessly. The votes continued to roll in for Bailey, yet he was headed, then Murphy went a couple of lengths up. At the distance, just two or three votes would have landed the prize for either. They had it between them. Yet they had counted without Mark Tompkins.
A tidal wave of late support carried the Classic-winning trainer from nowhere into the reckoning, and then to the brink of surely his greatest career achievement. With just six hours until voting closed, Tompkins edged in front for the first time. Bailey rallied gamely, showing plenty of his celebrated ‘bottom' to overhaul a clearly legless Murphy, but it was too late, the day was done. Weighed in. Your website of the year in 2007 was marktompkins.com, and richly deserved too.
Not surprisingly, the industry title was similarly fought out between the three trainers, but here the stewards took a dim view of thoseTompkins voters who couldn't actually manage to spell their man's surname.
Several such votes were chucked out, handing this title to Bailey – a very worthy winner, not least for his hugely entertaining Bailey's Blog. Special congratulations go to Ferdy Murphy, gongless but unbowed.
The fansite/non-commercial/ forum category is always hotly contested and it was pleasing to see votes for 22 runners, although controversy stalked this renewal, with both the first and second past the post disqualified as ineligible to run.
Did this seem harsh on crottly.co.uk – a much-cherished labour-of-love fansite and standing dish in these awards, which had introduced a piffling commercial sideline? The stewards retired to the smoking gazebo with a bottleof Drambuie to reconsider, emerging exhausted two hours later to sob: “Winner all right!”
A magical moment, and hats off to Crottly. The extra ability to handle credit card payments did for the ‘runner-up', and so the places were filled by three excellent forums: 121s.com pipping talkinghorses.co.uk and theracingforum.co.uk, who deadheated.
There were very few votes in the poker and casino categories, with victory shared between pokerstars.com and partypoker.com in the first, while 888.com took the second. None of these winners broke into double figures, although the same could be said of the entire turnout in the spreads division, which sportingindex.com took comfortably.
The bookmaker category was better supported, with 13 runners, and Ladbrokes carried the day from Bet365, with PaddyPower third.
Pollsters had dared to talk of a spectacular gubbing in the exchange award with 1.01 shots Betfair turned over, and so it proved, despite a fierce tussle, with an impressive turn out for new boys wbx.com. The awards are no more than a popularity contest, of course, but for exchanges there's nothing more important than popularity.
Betfair did manage to retain two of their titles – worst customer service and worst site reliability. The BF giant trampled seven rivals in the reliability contest, but were nearly blindsided by satellite TV provider Setanta in the nine-runner customer service stakes. A somewhat broad take on eligibility here, certainly, but no question that Setanta got right up some of your noses. “Worst service in my lifetime,” wrote one voter, presumably from an address outside the Southern Water region.
Poker rooms aside, Betfair handle more user-hours than the rest of the online betting industry combined, so their ‘reliability ratio' is arguably not that bad – but they complete the inglorious double yet again.
This year I've resisted the temptation to share my own picks, but surely thewelching bookmaker Premierbet – and all who sailed out of the same port under different flags – deserved both these awards?
With that in mind, my special merit gong for 2007 goes to the reader who attempted to register 16,172 votes as ‘returning officer for the borough of Dunny-on-the-Wold, which has no internet access'. All the votes were for a site campaigning for the Premierbet victims, premierbet.moonfruit.com.
Thanks again to loyal awards sponsor VCbet, who won nowt, but spared us a rather awkward moment by drawing an appreciable share of positive votes in the bookmaker, poker and casino categories again this year.
VCbet will be furnishing randomly selected voter, Adrian Ingleson of Solihull, with a free £150 bet. Good luck with that, Adrian.
The announcement here in full, courtesy of The Racing Post:
AND THE WINNERS ARE . . .
Alex Hankin
BRUCE FORSYTH, Kylie Minogue, Kofi Annan – just three of the cast of international notables too busy to attend the glittering Annual Netprophet Internet Awards booze-up. They'll be kicking themselves now.
Yes, we were a tad light on celebrities last Monday night at the Dartford Bowlarama and Conference Centre, but those who did turn up – Vladimir Putin and a Chuckle Brother, since you ask – were treated to a dustbinful of the old homebrew and a nevertheless memorable racing tussle.
Your votes were requested in ten categories, the aim to crown the best and worst of the racing andbetting web in 2007 (excepting the Racing Post's own sites, which were ineligible for obvious reasons). Hundreds of you took the trouble to make your voice heard, for which sincere thanks.
As in previous years, the stewards' panel – wilful and capricious as a drunken bridesmaid – sifted the pile of ballot papers, adjudicating as the fancy of a moment took them.
Two titans of the Turf emerged from this chaos to race for the overall title. What a tear-up it was.
In stall one, Kim Bailey (kimbaileyracing.com); in two, Ferdy Murphy (ferdymurphyracing.com). And you'd have had your last tangerine on Bailey taking this unchallenged after seeing him power away when the tapes rose. Murphy planted. Bailey stretched into the distance. Uncatchable, right upuntil he was caught.
The tortoise Murphy hoisted up his shell and legged off in pursuit, making up the ground relentlessly. The votes continued to roll in for Bailey, yet he was headed, then Murphy went a couple of lengths up. At the distance, just two or three votes would have landed the prize for either. They had it between them. Yet they had counted without Mark Tompkins.
A tidal wave of late support carried the Classic-winning trainer from nowhere into the reckoning, and then to the brink of surely his greatest career achievement. With just six hours until voting closed, Tompkins edged in front for the first time. Bailey rallied gamely, showing plenty of his celebrated ‘bottom' to overhaul a clearly legless Murphy, but it was too late, the day was done. Weighed in. Your website of the year in 2007 was marktompkins.com, and richly deserved too.
Not surprisingly, the industry title was similarly fought out between the three trainers, but here the stewards took a dim view of thoseTompkins voters who couldn't actually manage to spell their man's surname.
Several such votes were chucked out, handing this title to Bailey – a very worthy winner, not least for his hugely entertaining Bailey's Blog. Special congratulations go to Ferdy Murphy, gongless but unbowed.
The fansite/non-commercial/ forum category is always hotly contested and it was pleasing to see votes for 22 runners, although controversy stalked this renewal, with both the first and second past the post disqualified as ineligible to run.
Did this seem harsh on crottly.co.uk – a much-cherished labour-of-love fansite and standing dish in these awards, which had introduced a piffling commercial sideline? The stewards retired to the smoking gazebo with a bottleof Drambuie to reconsider, emerging exhausted two hours later to sob: “Winner all right!”
A magical moment, and hats off to Crottly. The extra ability to handle credit card payments did for the ‘runner-up', and so the places were filled by three excellent forums: 121s.com pipping talkinghorses.co.uk and theracingforum.co.uk, who deadheated.
There were very few votes in the poker and casino categories, with victory shared between pokerstars.com and partypoker.com in the first, while 888.com took the second. None of these winners broke into double figures, although the same could be said of the entire turnout in the spreads division, which sportingindex.com took comfortably.
The bookmaker category was better supported, with 13 runners, and Ladbrokes carried the day from Bet365, with PaddyPower third.
Pollsters had dared to talk of a spectacular gubbing in the exchange award with 1.01 shots Betfair turned over, and so it proved, despite a fierce tussle, with an impressive turn out for new boys wbx.com. The awards are no more than a popularity contest, of course, but for exchanges there's nothing more important than popularity.
Betfair did manage to retain two of their titles – worst customer service and worst site reliability. The BF giant trampled seven rivals in the reliability contest, but were nearly blindsided by satellite TV provider Setanta in the nine-runner customer service stakes. A somewhat broad take on eligibility here, certainly, but no question that Setanta got right up some of your noses. “Worst service in my lifetime,” wrote one voter, presumably from an address outside the Southern Water region.
Poker rooms aside, Betfair handle more user-hours than the rest of the online betting industry combined, so their ‘reliability ratio' is arguably not that bad – but they complete the inglorious double yet again.
This year I've resisted the temptation to share my own picks, but surely thewelching bookmaker Premierbet – and all who sailed out of the same port under different flags – deserved both these awards?
With that in mind, my special merit gong for 2007 goes to the reader who attempted to register 16,172 votes as ‘returning officer for the borough of Dunny-on-the-Wold, which has no internet access'. All the votes were for a site campaigning for the Premierbet victims, premierbet.moonfruit.com.
Thanks again to loyal awards sponsor VCbet, who won nowt, but spared us a rather awkward moment by drawing an appreciable share of positive votes in the bookmaker, poker and casino categories again this year.
VCbet will be furnishing randomly selected voter, Adrian Ingleson of Solihull, with a free £150 bet. Good luck with that, Adrian.
Euronymous
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They were hardly first in the computer geek queue were they. I`ve been trying to add another card to my account for awhile now.
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I read it as www.crottly.co.uk Winning No.9