User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/SFW Winter Awards 2015/@comment-4988763-20150225224254/@comment-4988763-20150225232520

Not really.

There's no sense in having a category that decides the "best character of 2014" without letting the previous winners of the former seasons compete as well. After all, the characters currently competing were not the only ones that won awards in the previous year.

The ones that are currently competing are the ones that won an award this season, thus the winners of this particular awards are competing among themselves to see what article was the best among them, the best character of THIS season alone.