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After two months of submissions, The Tracy Awards announced its 2009 “winners” to the delight of press and public alike. First Ad Age gave us some love, followed quickly by the Wall Street Journal, Gawker, The Dog and Pony Show, and Media Bistro. Not bad for Tracy’s first public foray into the bad advertising awards show arena (privately he’s been hating on terrible ads for years, including some of his own). All this bodes well for next year’s Tracy Awards, which promises to be even bigger and crappier. But that depends on you, so start looking!

In the world of advertising awards shows, none are more highly thought of than the RMA’s (as they’re called in the business by the ultra-pretentious). We may not have won the $100,000 Grand Prize, but as they say, “There’s always next year, loser.” A random photo of Tracy and Chip and some other awards-goers, below.

In a blatantly obvious ploy to sucker Crowell employees into inundating the office with communal brownies, Travis Gray organized a brownie bake-off contest in “honor” of Nina Lynch’s birthday. Jill won 1st place; Kim won 2nd place; Anna won 3rd place; and Travis won some lame award called “Best Presentation” because Nina felt sorry for him.

No news here, really. Just a creepy photo we thought you’d like to see.

Crowell employee Adam Bramwell has been crowned/debased by winning eBay’s competition for the worst ID photo in the state. The competition was held over a three week period at a series of free rock concerts held at the Gallivan Center – after winning a preliminary round, he was then automatically entered into the finale competition, in which he crushed the competition. The ID photo in question, seen below, is entitled “FULL COLOR GLORY” for obvious reasons.