Congratulations to the following PinoyWrimo 2008 awardees!

WORD WARRIORS OF THE YEAR
The brave people who joined the 2008 Word Wars and came out victorious among the rest
- Melissa / Dia Aren Marie (11540 total accumulated word count from all Word Wars participated in)
- Anne / DeSanggria (9595 total accumulated words)
- Maia / Keiko Ri (5895 total accumulated words)

FIRST TO 50,000 WORDS
- Louise / Sestine (Reached 50k on November 16)

HIGHEST FIRST DAY
- Kyle / Musical Simplicity (7000 words in November 1)

HIGHEST WORD COUNT IN A DAY
- Julie / planet_telex (18K in the last day)

LONGEST NOVEL
- Liv / rii-kun (130,698 words)

NEVER SAY DIE
These are the Wrimos who have reached the word count goal after several years of trying. They never gave up on the challenge and true enough, they finally reached their goals!
- Rey / raichu (1st time win in 4 consecutive years — 2005-2007)
- Anne / DeSanggria (1st time win in 4 non-consecutive years — 2001-2003)

MOST INSPIRING WRIMO
For catching the NaNoWriMo fever early, being one of the big supporters of everyone in the community and for finishing the challenge even if it felt like it was impossible for her during the last days.
- Kage / xcerpted

NEWBIE OF THE YEAR
Regardless of being a NaNo rebel with her 2008 work, she worked on steadily during the month, even imagining Chuck Norris beating up her characters and her internal editor just so they would act accordingly, and she reached the goal with days to spare.
- JC / joshinken