Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Are you saying that Lubomir Mitev met the selection criteria better than me ?!?

I don’t understand why mr Mitev of Bulgaria got into the prize pool comparing him to many participants he is at most mediocre. Could any of the renowned jury explain this situation? I would like to make an appeal.

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Well, I don’t like to argue… but it’s difficult to understand someone who posted all her/his articles in the last minutes of the competition being chosen; or someone with only an article.
Anyway, good luck to everyone.
We’ll be watching.

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Make Dragos and Diego my words
Exeception made to Line and Lara, I can not agree with the names choosen. What about JC Moore, Kevin Rennie, Pabitra, Hussam (the most popular post), Andrea Arazba and Percin?

I dont like to be a bad loser,but I was the one who got more comments, the more retweeted. 14 European winners and the Peruvian lives in Brussels. No Indian, no Australian, no Brazilian, no African?

Anyway,congratulations to the winners

umm,.
Any way,.
Why there are no Asians or Africans in the list. Was the competition was only for European nations as they will be part of the European delegation??
So i must say its not regionally balanced in any way.

Maybe some of them had to reject the prize cause of employment contracts.

Congratulations everyone! Hope someone interviews our Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet.

Giedre & Lara

Look forward to your dispatches from Cancun.

I am really hapy for everybody who got in the competition!

I am based in Mexico City, so if anybody would like to see the city (before or after Cancun) , let me know. You have a house here =)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR TH!NKERS! (and ke’ts keep on participating for the other prizes!!!!!)

Wow, im psyched!!! I really can’t wait! But i must agree- i am a little puzzled by the selection process… However- congratulations to everybody!

Johan, say something! In my opinion, this selection does not make sense (a parte for some of the selectes that deserve it).
At the beginning of this platform, you said that the criteria well clear and that this platform would have been more democratic than the previous one… you published the criteria, which included:

impact, multimedia, personal progression,platform engagement,, quality and originality.

The moajority of those selected, failed completely in imapct (less than 100 view and no comments at all), in multimedia (only one post published and no pictures and photos at all), no personal progression (only one post published and that’s it, no demonsttrating personal progression at all therefore, i mean, whith which previous post would you compare their progression?!?), no platfomr engagemen (no comments on other posts and no response to comments), concerning quality and originality, many were bad written and on same topics of others.
As Charles said, I expected many many many different results for the selection. I was sure that not only Lara Smallman, but also other bloggers that wrote a lot since the first days, showing a good use of multimedia, a personal progression, a platform engagement, impact of theirr posts with many commments, etc., such as Charles and Hussam, who wrote many good nice posts, received many comments, showed a good use of the multimedia instruments, etc., as well as Percin, Pabitra, Kevin (or was he too old?!), Arzaba, JC Moore… what about them?! Just because they are not European, you didn’t use the criteria you mentioned but the nationality quota system?! I’m shocked, I thought that in Europe you stopped using these racial criteria in order to select people, I thought it was simple a “retage du passe”, a “heritage of history…”

please Johan explain why you didn’t choose the bloggers I mentioned.

@Does it make sense?! - no, it doesn’t. My 3 posts gathered some 2.400 views, with tens of Facebook likes, retweets and almost 30 comments. When the judges say that one single post, with 70 views(!) is better I must think that my writing is at least 34 times worst. And this is an european speaking If I were from outside Europe I must have had like 100.000 views to even be considered )

Congrats to all! And please, take me a pictures.

Quote from a winning post ! =)) “History Turceni people is quite sad and lasts for over 15 years. Heads sit with his hands in his breast as if they expect homes to fall over people as if to intervene. It would be the first time in Gorj when this happens, and is Seciuri Ceausescu knew that the risk of landslides but no one wanted to take clcul studies made at the time. Nearly 200 families were left homeless.
The problem of Turceni locals began to resume work once the deposit of slag and ash from the power plant Ceplea Turceni.De point where hundreds of families staying in the house cracked, full of damp and mold, ready to fall upon them at any time day and night because it was the infiltration of apă.După reloată activity that people were filing up with sources in homes, yards were transformed into the swamp and the cellars of the houses are always full with water.
For 15 years families sleep HitPark moisture can not cultivate gardens in yards due to excess water, corns have been turned into swamps and fruit trees and vines are dry because apei.În same house full of mold and mildew grow Children of all ages including babies and their health care to anyone.
Maybe you’re wondering, those people stood with his hands in his breast did nothing?
The answer is one you probably know it. They did enough but no one has put in more seamă.Ba are good, the payment of city taxes even though their life has not changed at all in a good locality in the city with the transformation.”

Hello All,

First of all congratulations to all the winners, I am looking forward to your posts from the COP16 in Cancun.

For all our other participants: As stated at the end of the above article, the jury will soon come with an explanation for the choice of winners.

The Editor in Chief.

Čestitam svima ))

Em, so very much congrats to the winners. I just can’t hate but my only problem here is I thought this was open globally. Why is it that they chose only (except for one or two) Europeans? It’s a suspect move. I had thought that if it was to be global, atleast each continent should have a representative to the trip. Atleast! Or did they consider the cost. Now they want to start making us feel that this is for Europeans. Anywhoo, congrats once more to all winners and safe journey when you travel. My two cents

Congratulations to all of the winners on such a worthy project, but especially to my esteemed friend Laszlo Keki from Hungary!

Congrats to the winners! Looking forward to your reporting from Cancun!

This competition as well as the people associated with it are racists. It was a ‘global competition’! Get over it. Not five of those selected deserve to be there. No explanantion can justify the selection of people who have written just one post and many others whose quality of work engagement has been overlooked, only to let the undeserving regional people emerge as ‘winners’. This contest is a joke and you can organise and compete among yourselves in the future. The jury is nothing but a bunch of confused people as you can make out from their choice of selected people and how it contradicts with the criteria they put up. One of the most disorganised and partial competitions you are ever to see. And remember you can not cover this foolish act by any ‘explanation’ in the whole universe. Even the deserving winners like Line are amazed, what else to say!  You can not fool people by your stupid explanations. Either change your selection criteria or make it a regional contest. No deserving Brazilian, Asian, African or American selected and they call it a global competition. Some people who had to be there:
Kevin
Pabitra
Charles
Andrea
Gorky
J.C.Moore
Hussam
Komalirani
Npong
Percin

But none of them has won. This is awful.

The motive of this comment is to make the jury realise what have they done and remember the harsh comments they have got this time before framing any competition in the future.

All the guys mentioned above,  you know you guys are no less than winners. Though some people don’t think so. After all it was a locally ‘global’ competition.

Hi everyone,

Whilst I am glad to have gained a place,and worked hard on my articles as I’m sure you did to; I realise that they did not get as much feedback or views as others.

I regret the feeling of anamosity that has been roused by this. I to would like to see a more detailed justification of the selection criterea applied to the winners. I think it devalues the achievement of having gained a place if the wider community feels that this is illegitimate, it certainly makes me feel this way.

I hope that the more detailed notes from the judges can clear this up.

Sam

Guys, whatever the whole issues are running around the jury selection, we need to respect the selection. But I would like to raise 2 issues overhere:
1. There is no selection from any developing nations ( Asia, Africa or carribean nations)
2. All of the selected participants are journalists. So the jury should have selected only journalists in the preliminary screening stage instead allowing the others to participate as well.

wtever it is, the process seems to be unfair and unjust.