At the Hugo Awards Web Site, Kevin Standlee has compiled the available information about 2018 Hugo Ceremony coverage:
WHEN: The 2018 Hugo Awards Ceremony begins Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. North American Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7). Master of Ceremonies will be Artist Guest of Honor John Picacio.
WHERE: McEnery Convention Center Grand Ballroom in San Jose, California. The Ceremony will also be simultaneously shown in Callahan’s Place in the Exhibit Hall in a more relaxed environment where attendees can eat, drink, and socialize during the event.
VIDEO: Worldcon 76 San Jose plans to offer live video streaming of the Hugo Awards ceremony via their YouTube channel.
TEXT: The Hugo Awards web site will offer text-based coverage of the Hugo Awards ceremony via CoverItLive. The hosts will be Kevin Standlee, Susan de Guardiola, and Cheryl Morgan. You can sign up at the CoverItLive event site for an e-mail notification before the event starts.
Will they have the ability to shut down loudmouth troublemakers in the comments of the text-based coverage this year?
Sweet! My intrepid kittysitter has departed and I am chained to my hotel room. Fortunately there’s a pizza and a bunch of e-comics in here.
@Eric Franklin: No idea, but I hope so. If no, perhaps another service should be considered in the future.
@Kendall That’ll be up to next year’s tech team. Here’s hoping that this year’s team learned from the problems of last year’s team.
@Eric Franklin: To explain my reply: You said “the ability,” which depends on the tech used; that’s the same as the past few years (Cover-It Live, unless I mangled the name). The people are the same – folks from the Hugo Awards web site team, not Worldcon people who change every year. (In fact, this year’s line-up is the same as last year – Kevin & Cheryl & Susan.)
Anyway, coverage should be starting in a bit! 😀 <–my excited face.
Actually looks like the text coverage just started!
BTW I just posted a thanks note to the text stream and it said it was being held for moderation, so this bodes well for the text coverage!
@Kendall That does, indeed, bode well.
I’m super-excited.
Are you guys getting a life feed? Here at Callahan’s it seems like they can’t get the live feed to run
@Rebecca H: Here on the ‘net, we were getting a photo stream; now it’s on a placeholder and there was an announcement a couple of min. ago it’s starting in 5 minutes. I presume the video won’t really start till it [I mean the actual ceremony] really, er, starts. ::fingers crossed::
[ETA: Hopefully it’ll go smoothly at Callahan’s – and on the net!]
Were there any problems with the CoverIt stream last year? As I recall it was mainly an issue on the YouTube stream (which got shut down) and… somewhere else, I want to say the chat alongside the live caption stream?
Must admit 4am is not my favourite time for Hugo ceremonies, but it’s always 4am somewhere…
It was buffering on a picture of GRRM for a while, but it’s streaming properly now. Image of “Welcome to …Ceremony” and crowdnoise in background. Announcement about a minutes ago that ceremony would start in five minutes.
Chat is disabled on the Youtube livestream, FWIW.
The video stream is working. Ish. If you turn it up very loud, you can hear the audience rustling.
Last year, they shut down comments because of a certain soccer-flopping trouble-maker. I thought it was on the text stream, but it might have been the YouTube comments.
Video starting!
… and we have activity on screen!
Yay – we see John Picasio!
Loved the short video about the construction of the Hugo base.
Best Fan Artist: Geneva Benton
Best Fan Writer: Sarah Gailey
Best Fanzine: File770
(woo! gz!)
Woo! Best Fanzine File 770! Congrats, Mike!
Congrats Mike – a Hugo for File 770 for Best Fanzine!
Congrats on the Hugo win!
Woo hoo and well deserved!
Congratulations Mike!
Conga rats, Mike!!
Congratulations!
Mike is recusing himself and File 770 from all future Hugos.
Damn, it’s dusty in here.
Congratulations Mike & File770 contributors!
*waves to Jo*
Congrats Mike and everybody 🙂
What a lovely acceptance speech! Congrats, Mike, and be well.
Hearty congratulations to Mike!
Wow I didn’t see that permanent recusal coming. Congrats @Mike Glyer and that’s quite classy of you (not required, though!). ::bows::
Best Fancast: Ditch Diggers
Congratulations Mike! (yay us)
Congratulations Mike!
John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer: Rebecca Roanhorse
Best Semiprozine: Uncanny Magazine
Best Related Work: No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
Grats, Mike!
Congratulations, Mike! I knew it was going to be you. Thank you for all your support!
Best Professional Artist: Sana Takeda
Best Graphic Story: Monstress Vol 2
Congratulations to Mike. Lovely speech, too.
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Good Place “The Trolley Problem”
(would be nice if there was an audio announcement of the titles for the DP categories built into the videos)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Wonder Woman
Best Editor, Short Form: Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas
Best Editor*S* in this case, I suppose. 😛
Best Editor, Long Form: Sheila E. Gilbert
Best Series: World of the Five Gods by Lois McMaster Bujold