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After a long campaign against the best and brightest geek luminaries, Wil Wheaton has emerged as the people’s choice to hold the office of the (yet to be officially recognized) Secretary of Geek Affairs.

Nearly 90,000 total votes were cast in determining the Geek Madness Tournament outcome, and Mr. Wheaton vanquished an impressive list of geek luminaries on his march to victory: Bruce Campbell, Wesley Crusher, Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, Gabe & Tycho (Penny Arcade), and Joss Whedon.

Learn more about your new Secretary from his wikipedia entry, and from the man himself at his site.

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From the Whedonesque thread on the Geek Affairs race:

zeitgeist : Joss is a geek icon and a story/literary/film/musical theatre, Wil is a dyed-in-the-wool geek in more traditional senses.

Hunted : Is Joss a geek? I've never thought that. Hm...However Wil clearly IS, he built his own website. He used to (may still be doing for all i know) write his own html in notepad to update the site. He does weird and wonderful things with computers that I doubt Joss could (and he's on twitter!) - so I think Wil clearly is the bigger geek.

madmolly : When I think of geek, I think of Wil. When I think of Master, I think of Joss.

spooforbrains : Don't mean to be nitpicky, but the tag is incorrect. Wil only has one "l". And while Joss is my master, Wil is far and away the more geeky. And he understands issues that are important to his fellow geeks, like why DRM is very very bad. That sort of thing is not even on Joss's radar. So I know who my vote goes with.

Oh, spooforbrains...I think I love you.  After all, everyone knows Brent Spiner took the other "l".

For anyone who read that and thought about a sport involving hoops and balls, well, I have only one thing to say:  "He don't know me very well, do he?"

For those of you who do, you know this post is about something much more important  than petty sport.  It's about stepping up to the mike and letting our collective geek voices be heard.  We're down to four contenders in the Secretary for Geek Affairs race!

This week's penultimate four showdown gives us Kaylee Frye taking on her creator, Joss Whedon, and Wil Wheaton squaring off against his friends Gabe and Tycho from over at Penny Arcade!  Ah, the choices are nearly overwhelming!  Make yours and go with it!  Boldly go, my friends, boldly go.  (And um...just ignore the icon...really...pay no attention to the man at the right...ahem...anyway...)

What are you still doing here?  Go vote, for the love of all things holy!

Vote, vote, vote!

I so thought I was done playing on the interwebs tonight, but, well, I'm not.  Why?

BECAUSE THE ROUND OF EIGHT HAS JUST OPENED FOR VOTING AT THE SECRETARY OF GEEK AFFAIRS SITE!

Whoa.  Sorry.  Got a little excited.  But who can blame me when these exciting battles are coming up?

Watch as Kaylee Frye dukes it out with Simon Pegg for the Do'urden crown while over in Bombadil John Hodgman takes on Gabe and Tycho!  Feel your pulse pound as Joss Whedon does battle with the sleeper Felicia Day and cheer as Wil Wheaton takes on Steve Wozniak fresh on the heels of his victory over none other than Stephen Hawking!  That round showed us every vote counts!  Make your voice heard!  Go vote!

Round II of the Geek 16 is open for voting!  So, hold off on those Horrible votes.  (They're open until March 20, and really, how are you going to decide your favorites quickly with so much lovely to choose from?)  Instead, get yourself over to the Geek Madness and pick your fave four! Who will it be?  Day or Lee?  Whedon or Coulton?  Wozniak or Belmont?  Wheaton or Hawking?  It's all up to you!  Four will triumph and four will take their dice and go home.  Their fates are in your hands.  Vote your conscience!