Hi there! I'm not really happy with recycling all non-winners of the previous TYA as candidates for the following. Originally the TYA set out honor contributers of the past two months. That way the contributions are still fresh in mind and in a "slow" month also smaller contributions have a chance of winning. I think we should try to stick to this goal and only "cheat" when we just cannot come up with, say, three candidates. In general, I think we should also try to not go beyond 4 or 5 candidates as that can get overwhelming... Regards, Humdinger -- --=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=- Deutsche Haiku News @ http://www.haiku-gazette.de