Ok. Now that THAT's settled.
Thanks for playing along, everyone.
I started the first countdown thread in 2005, and we lost. I forget what worthy story won, but we were a finalist for our coverage of the busy 2004 hurricane season. We were finalists again the following year, for the busy 2005 hurricane season, but we had no expectation of winning that one (once again Florida was hit by four hurricanes, but one of them was named Katrina, which did a little bit more damage elsewhere -- New Orleans won that year).
Since then our paper won its first Pulitzer in 2013 for an entry written by a few specific people.
This one was different in that it was a massive undertaking by the entire staff. It just means more to us as a group.
Anyway, enough about it. Just, thank you for playing along with the countdown. Maybe we get to do it again next year, for a less tragic reason.
Cheers.