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Corny Awards: Corn Nation Staff Awards

The votes have been cast, the ballots have been tallied, and now we have the winners of the first annual 2020 Corny Awards!

You’ve already seen the results for volleyball/wrestling, Nebrasketball (both men’s and women’s), and for football. Today we have the final results for football the Corn Nation writing staff.

As a reminder, the overall categories that were voted on were as follows:

  1. Best Husker Football Player
  2. Best Husker Football Game
  3. Best Husker football play of the season
  4. Best Husker Volleyball Player
  5. Best Husker Volleyball game of the season
  6. Best Husker Basketball Player
  7. Best Husker Basketball game of the season
  8. Best Women’s Husker Basketball Player
  9. Best Women’s Husker Basketball game of the season
  10. Best Husker wrestler
  11. Best CN Article of the Year Award
  12. Staff Writer of the Year Award
  13. CN Community Newcomer Award
  14. Best Podcast

So let’s get into our announcement of the winners!


Best Corn Nation Article of the Year Award

The nominees were:

Volleyball Class Series
Nebrasketball Pre-Season Preview Series
Nebraska May Have Finally Found Their Fourth Quarter Tradition with The Killigans’ “Cornhusker” Article
ESPN GameDay Guest: Who Should It Be Article

The vote breakdown:

The Winner is:

The Volleyball Class Series wins this year’s Best Article Award with 29% of the vote!

Second place is a tie between Nebrasketball Pre-Season Preview Series and ESPN GameDay Guest at 24.6% each
Third place was Killigans’ “Cornhusker” which garnered 21.7%


Best Corn Nation Radio Podcast

The nominees were:

Five Heart
Of Bangarangs and Daggers
Big Red Cobcast
Jon’s Post-Life Crisis

The vote breakdown:

The Winner is:

Jon’s Post-Life Crisis earned first place with 31.3% of the vote!

Second is a tie between Of Bangarangs and Daggers and Five Heart registering 25% each
Third is Big Red Cobcast with 18.8%


Corn Nation Community Newcomer Award

The nominees were:

BVBMerry
SpartyOnHuskers
Dylan Guenther
FloridaHusker
Write-In for new commenters

The vote breakdown:

The Winner is:

SpartyOnHuskers wins Newcomer of the Year with 49.5% of the vote!

Second place is BVBmerry who garnered 23.3% of the vote
Third is FloridaHusker who received 12.3%
Dylan earned 11%
Write-in’s took home 4.1%


Corn Nation Staff Writer of the Year Award

The nominees were:

Patrick
Nate
Jon
Ranchbabe (Jill)
SpartyOnHuskers (Kevin)
BVBmerry
Dylan
UglyDog
BriannaC

The vote breakdown:

The Winner is:

Ranchbabe wins Writer of the Year with 21.8% of the vote!

Second is Jon with 17.9%
Third place goes to SpartyOnHuskers who earned 15.4%
Tied for fourth are Nate and Patrick who each got 12.8%
After that is UglyDog with 10.3%
Finally BriannaC received 5.1%


Thank you to all who participated and congratulations to all the winners! What do they all receive you might ask? The warm gratitude and fervent following of all you Cornhusker fans out there of course! But that’s not all. No, wait, they will also receive:

A BRAND NEW CAR!

Just kidding. There is no new car. Seriously, though, congratulations tot he winners and we hope you all enjoyed making your nominations and voting. See you again next year (when hopefully we have more sports to include due to spring not being cancelled).