I must say, the Moddb site is just chock full of fail when it comes to contest management. The "big annual contest" has NO propagation on the front page other than a little icon in the "popular groups" listing, just above the 2007 awards, so the average "what new mods are out" visitor has little chance of even noticing it. The countdown timer on the Phase 2 site currently says 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds... so I guess it's frozen in time, and should have been a completely automated process unless the site admins plan to "validate" (read: rig) the nominations... or maybe I'm just being extra cranky this morning.