Doomie Awards

The voting has ended, and the winners are set to be announced. It’s time for the 2025 Doomies winners to step forward and claim the most prestigious awards available on The Blog Of Doom. Let’s get to it!

It’s time for the FINAL VOTE in the 2025 Doomie Awards.

I have tallied all the votes that were received in the Nomination Phase and compiled them into a top 3 (or 4 in a couple cases, due to ties) in each category. You’ll be able to vote once in this next phase, and you’ll be able to choose your winner in each of the categories. The answers are not required so if you choose to skip a category for whatever reason, that’s your choice.

It’s Doomies season, so let’s get it moving, shall we?

Okay, so a quick refresh on how this all works is probably in order. This process happens in two stages. The first stage is the nominations for candidates, and the second phase is voting on the top three candidates that get put forth in each category. Basically, you have a say in who the final candidates will be as your top three choices in each category will be assigned five points for a first place nom, three for a second place nom, and one for a third place nom. I’ll do the counting work, and then on January 2nd 2026 we’ll begin the formal voting process to determine the winners based on the choices that get the most points during the nomination process.

During this first phase, you can put nominations forth in two ways. The first way is to simply write a comment on this post with your choices in each category (you don’t have to vote in every category if you don’t want to, you can pick and choose if you feel strongly about some but not that strongly about others – it’s cool.) The second way is to send an email to [email protected] with your choices listed there. The nomination process will end on December 30th 2025, and as mentioned above, we’ll start the voting for winners on January 2nd.

The Doomies have been totaled and calculated, I’m trying to find a way to convert a Google Quiz into a shareable document that doesn’t dox all the voters, but if you have questions about it, email me at [email protected] and I’ll do what I can to answer your questions, well, enough nonsense, here are the results.

Hello all.

So we tallied all the nominations, took the finalists and have now opened up voting to all, I plan on leaving this up for about a week, closing voting at 12 AM January 28th and putting up the final tallies and winners the day after. Here is a link to the poll, and here is a link to all the nomination totals. If you have any questions, please send them to [email protected].

Hello all, it is time for the 2024 Doomies, well, two weeks ago was probably time but this is when we’re getting them. If you have not done this before, or if you just don’t remember how we do it, it is a two-tiered voting process where we determine the best of and worst of for the previous year. The first step is to determine a list of nominees and then the second part will be voting for those nominees.

Hey Scott,

The month-long balloting for the 2022 Doomies has concluded with 135 people submitting final ballots for this year’s awards.  This was 105 ballots short of last year’s participation.

I included the top three finishers for each category below, but if you wish to see a percentage breakdown of votes you can find them at this link.  If you wish to see how nominations went to get to the top five, you can find them at this link.  Note that the tiebreaker was number of first place votes and then number of second places votes.

Here were the results of the 2022 Doomies:

There were twenty-seven nomination ballots submitted for this year’s Doomie awards, the recognized symbol of excellence in wrestling blogging. I have tallied those ballots and the top five (and ties) have moved onto the final round of balloting. This year this will take place on a Google Form and you will vote for one choice for each category (or the categories you choose to vote for). Thank you to those who participated in the nomination round.

Click here to access the ballot. You do not need to respond to every question, but you will need to sign into Google to cast your ballot. Balloting will close at midnight on Saturday.

Results will be released on Tuesday, January 24.

In case you are curious, here are the nominees for each category (they’ve been mixed up so as not to give away what got the most votes in nominations):

As has been the custom for the last eight years, early January signals the time for the Doomies, where the Blog votes on and bestows honors to the best and worst of professional wrestling in 2022.

This year’s voting will follow last year’s.  There will be a 6-day period of nominations for all categories, which will be tabulated with the traditional formula of a first place vote getting 5 points, a second place vote 3 points, and a third place vote 1 point.  After tabulating nominations, the top 5 will then be moved to a winner take all voting process on a Google Form where people will vote for one of the nominees.  That voting process will take 5 days.

A friendly reminder that “Commenter of the Year” is not a writer award but for any of your favorite people to talk to in the comments section of the Blog.  Another reminder that traditionally if a company does a “brand split” that the brands are considered separate promotions.

Additional voting information is included after a brief history of the awards:

Our three-week period of balloting for the 2022 Doomies has concluded with 240 people submitting final ballots for this year’s awards.  Thanks to everyone for voting as the 240 ballots shattered out past marks of participation, so we will be keeping the nomination + final ballot format going forward in the future.

I included the top three finishers for each category below, but if you wish to see a percentage breakdown of votes you can find them at this link.  If you wish to see how nominations went to get to the top five, you can find them at this link.  Note that the tiebreaker was number of first place votes and then number of second places votes.

There were forty-seven nomination ballots submitted for this year’s Doomie awards, the recognized symbol of excellence in wrestling blogging.  I have tallied those ballots and the top five (and ties) have moved onto the final round of balloting.  This year this will take place on a Google Form and you will vote for one choice for each category (or the categories you choose to vote for).  Thank you to those who participated in the nomination round.

Click here to access the ballot.  You do not need to respond to every question, but you will need to sign into Google to cast your ballot.  Balloting will close at midnight on Saturday.

Results will be released on Tuesday, January 25.

As has been the custom for the last seven years, early January signals the time for the Doomies, where the Blog votes on and bestows honors to the best and worst of professional wrestling in 2021.

This year voting will be different than previous years.  There will be a 10 day period of nominations for all categories, which will be tabulated with the traditional formula of a first place vote getting 5 points, a second place vote 3 points, and a third place vote 1 point.  After tabulating nominations, the top 5 will then be moved to a winner take all voting process on a Google Form where people will vote for one of the nominees.  That voting process will take a week.  The new process will a few extra days, but should produce a greater consensus around a winner, something that has not happened in some categories over the years.

Another change is that there will be a “Men’s Wrestler of the Year” category.  There will still be an overall category of “Wrestler of the Year,” which can include votes for men’s and women’s wrestlers.  Previous Wrestler of the Year winners will be grandfathered in as winners of the “Men’s Wrestler of the Year” category.

And again, a reminder that “Commenter of the Year” is not a writer award but for any of your favorite people to talk to in the comments section of the Blog.  Another reminder that traditionally if a company does a “brand split” that the brands are considered separate promotions.

Additional voting information is included after a brief history of the awards:

After allowing for a two week voting period, the 2020 Doomie Awards have been decided.

This year saw a marked increase in voting over the previous year, with a record seventy-eight ballots submitted.  That more than tripled last year’s voting, which saw twenty-three ballots cast.  So thanks to everyone for voting (and for several of the Doomie campaigns for raising awareness).

I hope that everyone is having a great start to the New Year.  It is time again for the Doomies, measuring the best and worst of the wrestling world in 2020.  Ballot information is included after the jump.

A reminder that “Commenter of the Year” as an award is not for a writer, but for any of your favorite people who makes comments on the various posts on the Blog.

Voting information is included after a brief history of the awards:

After a bit of a delay this year, the Blog of Doom has cast its votes for the best (and worst) wrestlers and moments of 2019.

I included the top three finishers for each category below, but if you wish to see the entire spreadsheet and how many first place, second place, and/or third place a choice received, go to this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dPd4rA6KXV15NYX5NdTJ7-hcrCTqpfCO/view?usp=sharing

Keep in mind that not all voters cast a ballot with three choices for each category and some voters did not vote for certain categories (everyone voted for Wrestler of the Year, though).  Participation in Doomie voting was down for the second straight year, with twenty-three ballots cast versus thirty-nine last year (and fifty-three two years ago).

I hope that everyone is having a great Super Bowl weekend.  After getting through a busy January, the Doomies are taking place a little later than previous years but we will hold them again to measure the best and worst of the wrestling world.  Ballot information is included after the jump.

We will be debuting some new categories this year per people’s requests from last year.  These will include votes for best/worst commentator, a new category for best Blog column that is not written by Scott (although Scott’s columns are still eligible for Column of the Year), and a renaming of the “Poster of the Year” category to “Commenter of the Year” because there was confusion over the last few years about whether the former referred to people who post columns here.  Voting information is included after a brief history of the awards:

Last week the blog cast its votes for the top (and worst) wrestlers and moments of 2018.  The voting deadline passed on Friday and all of the votes have been counted.  Remember, a first place vote was worth five points, a second place vote was worth three points, and a third place vote was worth one point.  In case of a tie, number of first place votes was used to break it.

I included the top three finishers for each category below, but if you wish to see the entire spreadsheet and how many first place, second place, and/or third place a choice received, go to this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q7sBC5tgWqchIV7HYABgVtIPwvJ8gVnO/view?usp=sharing

Keep in mind that not all voters cast a ballot with three choices for each category and some voters did not vote for certain categories (everyone voted for Wrestler of the Year, though).  Participation in Doomie voting was down this year, with thirty-nine ballots cast versus fifty-three last year.  Voter were also more uniform in their selections, with fewer candidates being nominated/receiving votes than previous years. Winners can be found below.