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Now that voting has closed and the scores are tallied, here are the submissions you felt were the best of 2019 in each category ordered by number of votes received. Medals will be distributed to the winners shortly.

 
Best Retrospective

(1990) The near crash of British Airways flight 5390 - Analysis

 

Best Current Event

[Under construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans collapsed this morning. Was due to open next month.](https://reddit.com

All nominees will be posted as comments in this thread. Upvote whichever comments you feel represent the best submissions of the year.

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You can view all nominated threads here before voting on the comments below.

#Nominees

Current Events

[Under construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans collapsed this morning. Was due to open next month.](https://reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/dgw61h/under_construction_hard_rock_hotel

For our fourth annual celebration of outstanding posts on the subreddit we're doing things a bit differently. In order to recognize a wider range of submissions the post of the year contest is adopting a new format and also participating in Reddit's Best of 2019, this year we have nominees chosen not just by popularity but according to four categories: Current Events, Most Spectacular Explosions, Retrospective, and Most Upvoted.

Voting will last 1 week through January 5th, entries from each category will receive medals and share a spot in our sidebar.

#[Click here to go to the voting thread!](https://reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/eh5b7v/catastrophic_failure_best_of_2019_vo

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