Minus 8 national newspapers, the 2006 winners of the British Press Awards have been unveiled.
But did the judges get it right? And what if the Mail, Telegraph and Express groups had been there? Who would have won then?
How about the Sunday Telegraph and David Blunkett for scoop of the year? Or team Evening Standard for its 7/7 coverage? Or the Express for its Princess Di exclusives? (OK, maybe not that one).
And what of the evening itself? So desperate were the organisers (Messrs Morgan, Freud and Thykier) to avoid a boozey brawl that the awards were handed out before dinner. Which of course meant that the assembled hacks were drinking on an empty stomach. For the evening's bad behaviour, of which there was some, read Monkey here.
But have the Press Gazette posse done enough to tempt back the boycotters? After all, when it came down to it, the refuseniks were mostly out because they didn't want to back Morgan and Freud, not because they were so offended by the boorish behaviour.
Opinion over Mail editor Paul Dacre's position was split last night. There were those who feel that now he had made his stand he cannot possibly perform a u-turn. And there are those who will see him enviously eyeing up those awards claimed by his rivals, thinking they should have been his!
