The December Update is now complete, including the 2007 Best of Gameops.com Awards, a new turn-key promotion and information on our newest CORE Product.

For the seventh straight year Gameops.com presents our Best of Awards honoring the best of the best in game operations and presentation in sports. I always enjoy working on the Best of Awards since its a chance to sort out people who are passionate and talented in their fields and acknowledge the great work efforts. Of course there are always a handful of people who we could add and tough decisions to make, but I felt like this year we had a great cross section of sports and some really strong winners. For example, when you read the best in-game contest I think you could make a case for this year’s winner to win any year….it’s just that good.

We also made some tough choices with the categories. We eliminated Best Vendor, since we rarely got feedback from teams and many of our panelists don’t work close enough with some vendors to have a very good opinion. We also took the feedback of our panel and readers and we will be adding two categories for 2008: Best Entertainment Group and Best Team Introductions. Since I did not have criteria to judge these categories this year I just noted some of the top picks in both categories….and next year those categories will be awarded like the original five awards.

We also have a fun new trophy, the Golden Steagle. We have the full story about this soon-to-be prestigious award on this page. The awards are on the way to us now and will be mailed to the winner in January (or presented in person where possible).

In the Promotion Spotlight we have a fun new contest called Build el Burrito. It was actually wild month of building Burritos here at our office. We took this idea and ran with it, coming up with the idea around November 1st and launching the spotlight, with complete the turn-key kits in the store and even video of a team using the new concept all by December 1st.

Finally we have added our third CORE product at Gameops.com. While we have access to about 500,000 products, we usually deal with about 100 sports-related items. Of those we are picking out a select group and really doing everything we can to offer the best options, service and pricing on these select products. We call these our CORE products. This month we add Bobbleheads to that CORE group.

Thanks for your visit, I hope you enjoy the update. Thanks also for your support in 2007. We set another record this year for visits (already) and we appreciate all our loyal readers.

–Cudo

The December Update is now live, including the anticipated 2007 Best of Gameops.com awards.  Congratulations to the winners and thanks to our panel for their time and insight.

I will be back later Monday with an additional update on the blog.  I wanted to drop a quick note to the subscribers to the blog that the awards have been posted. 

I also wanted to apologize for a couple broken links and missing photos on the update.  I have had some problems with the site wide updates recently.  After a long weekend putting the finishing touches on the update I didn’t get the chance to double and triple check all the links and photos.  All the links and YouTube videos related to this month’s update should be up before the end of the day Monday.

Thanks for your understanding.  I hope you enjoy this month’s update and the Best of Awards.

–Cudo