Finalists Quotes

You can't miss it with all the pictures we have hanging on the walls (at school) of our (34) state finalists. - Duane Blackburn

While there are numerous other award shows in adult businesses, we wanted to create one where the true critics the fans could pick their favorites in the categories that matter most to them. The fans will be the ones pre-nominating the performers and movies, choosing the finalists, and ultimately naming the winners. These are their awards. - Dan Davis

When it went to a smaller shop with no particular experience in this area, I was surprised... We were the only one of three finalists with this kind of experience. - Harry Davis

We're proud of Levi. He's one of 11 state finalists at Bellingham. - Brian Smith

We're actually going to be at seven locations and there are going to be seven individual winners and we're going to have those winners do a final exam where they do a little reporting story of their own and then we're going to have one winner from those seven finalists. - Rob Evans

We were thrilled it was a total shock that we'd been selected as finalists. I have no idea who nominated us, but it's a great honor. - Nelson Driver

We really didn't know who was going to win until the moment they announced the winners. In fact, I was the most amateur contestant among the finalists. - Janice Yu

We had an interesting pool of highly qualified candidates; interviewed four finalists; and are extremely pleased to recommend Liz to serve as the director... She knows the organization, has deep roots in the community, and displays great organizational skills. She has all the qualities we were looking for. - Steve Palmer

We had a strong league tournament. I was hoping the kids would put it together by the end and they did. We finished second in the tournament point-wise but we had the most champions and the most finalists. I think all the kids wrestled very well. Most of them wrestled up to their potential. Like anything else there were a couple of disappointments and situations where the kids might have fared better but they didn't. - Don Jantzen

We are happy enough with how things have gone, but Bay of Plenty were semi-finalists last year and they will give us a stern work out, ... None of us have forgotten what happened last year. They gave us a real hiding and we know we are going to have to be at our best to beat them. - Wayne Graham