I’m very suspicious that these kinds of competitions are just to publicise the sites the lists are put on. I was even more suspicious when I received the email telling me I’d been nominated on the first day of the nomination period, and apparently by someone who hadn’t noticed that TEFLtastic hasn’t been on TEFL.net for more than six months.

Someone at bab.la cleared it up for me:

“all blogs from last year are automatically nominated”

Which seems fair enough as a system, but doesn’t really match my definition of “nominated”. I’m now wondering whether I was every really nominated by someone, or whether they just have a list of high profile blogs (as mine was, once upon a time) that they’d like to get their badge on.