I’m going to attempt to try to sidestep the sort of controversy surrounding the math in the hevelonian anniversary post by using three different scoring methods to determine the winner. First (and most democratically) I’ll use a quasitative analysis to pull the presumed top vote from each comment. Second, I’ll give each mentioned shot a vote, regardless of it being indicated a clear favorite, as the instructions mentioned legality of multiple votes. Lastly, I’ll keep to the one comment one vote concept but split the voting power up based on the number of shots mentioned. For our purposes a three-way split is worth 0.33 points.

Top vote per person:
Winner: Puppy Kisses, 3pts
1st runner up: Moon Doggy, One more, blue eye, The Winning Shot, 1pt each

Multiple votes per person:
Winner: Puppy Kisses, 5pts,
1st runner up: One more, blue eye, The Winning Shot, Doll dog, 2pts each

Fractional voting:
Winner: Puppy Kisses, 1.58pt
1st runner up: Moon Doggy , 1pt

So, by all three measures the overall winner here is Puppy Kisses, below. Congratulations Nell! Please pick up your BFP ($25 gift certificate to Best in Show) in person at the BFP prize window (located at 510 26th Ave, San Francisco)! As a bonus prize, you’ve earned your very own menu link along the hevelonian top header menu. Thanks again everyone for playing!

It’s officially past 10am PST/1pm EST, so the submission deadline for Dog-a-palooza has passed and now it’s time to select the winner of our BIG FRIGGIN PRIZE. Since I know the nature of the BFP has been a subject of great debate (you materialistic stuff-mongers you) here’s the scoop – the winner will get a $25 gift certificate to Best in Show, a gourmet pet crap store I walked past this morning on the way to work. That’s $0.05 more than you’d need to get a stylish DOG TUXEDO.

I am a big believer in the wisdom of the masses (not really, but let’s go with that for now) so will let the random lurkers and spambots that visit this site decide on the winner. We’re all Diebold up in here so you can vote as many times as you like with no paper trail to come back to bite ya.

All nine entries can be found en masse, or individually below (in reverse order to counterbalance the recency bias). Vote in the comments, and don’t vote for your own (unless you’re really that desperate for the tux).

Forced Hug
Grandpa Jon Charms GoonDog
Puppy Kisses
Contemplating (People Food) Cookout
The Winning Shot
Doll Dog
Best for the End of dog-a-palooza
MNH, a Wildcat at Heart
One more, blue eye