A look back at 2013!

From a small idea of Austin's spawned AustHan's World on January 1st, 2013.  While we are both amateurs at best in the world of blogging, I would say that the first year of AustHan's World went really well.  We have tried many different ideas, from drafts, Big Brother brackets, Throwback Thursday posts, and more.  Also, I have AustHan's World to thank for a couple cool experiences.  So, I have decided to write this post as a tribute to AustHan's World's first year on the internet.

Becoming AustHansWorld.com:

To you, this probably isn't that exciting or monumental, but we were total nerds about this when it first happened.  Our Twitter DMs consisted of us repeatedly sending the link back and forth for a nice moment in time.  Like I said, both of us were complete newbies to this, so that was a memorable moment!

The infamous AHW drafts:

When AustHan's World first started, we tried to come up with fun things to do that'd hold our interest.  For that reason, we started doing drafts for all of our favorite shows.  In 2013, we did drafts for 14 different shows, if I did the math correctly, and currently only 11 of those have drawn to a close.  The results of those 11:

1. Survivor: Caramoan:  The first draft of many.  (Hannah)
2. HGTV Star (Austin)
3. Food Network Star (Hannah)
4. The American Baking Competition (Austin)
5. Reality GameMasters (Hannah)
6. Big Brother 15 (Hannah)
7. The Great Food Truck Race, Season 4 (Austin)
8. Survivor: Blood vs. Water (Hannah)
9. The Amazing Race 23 (Hannah)
10. Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off (Austin)
11. Dancing with the Stars, Season 17 (Hannah)
12. Shark Tank (In progress, but I have failed miserably at keeping track of it.)
13. Biggest Loser: Second Chances 2 (In progress)
14. Project Runway: All-Stars 3 (In progress)

So, as for finished drafts, I have won 7 and Austin has won 4.  However, there's still a possibility of tying!  Here's to hoping that doesn't happen, though!

Interacting with the people we wrote about and/or drafted:

Twitter really is a wonderful thing.  I remember it was the first month or two of having the website and Celeste (winner of the first season of 'King of the Nerds') commented on one of my recaps and posted one of the pictures that I edited on her Tumblr.  That was a cool experience and it, along with many other similar ones, bring a different level of fun to blogging.

That time when I met the Food Network Stars that I blogged about:

After it was all said and done, I wrote a post about it, but I was able to go to Cleveland and meet five of the people from the most recent season of the Food Network's Food Network Star.  I had never met people before who I had watched on TV, so that was new and very neat.  And I got to meet and hang out with Viet so that was obviously the best part of it all.  Ha!  I also got to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the first time ever on that trip.  It was a great weekend made possible thanks to AustHan's World!

So there's a brief overview of AustHan's World's first year.  My seasonal Bachelor/Bachelorette post and our draft for Survivor: Cagayan will be up within the first couple weeks of the year.  If you've read our posts, commented on them, followed us on Twitter, or shown any other form of support, thank you so much!  This is something we started up for fun and it's made even more fun when we can see that others enjoy it too.  Here's to a great year in 2014, for AustHan's World and YOU!

AustHan drafts 'King of the Nerds' (Season 2)!

Last year, I saw commercials for a show called 'King of the Nerds' and, being the nerd that I admittedly am, I made sure to watch it.  The premiere was spectacular and I was obsessed with the entire season.  So much so that I even wrote recaps on a few of the episodes. (Here is my recap of the first episode.  It was actually one of my first recaps ever!)  Anyway, I really loved last season and have high hopes for this new one.  But one of my regrets from 2013 was the fact that Austin and I never drafted that first season.  We were still too new to the blogging world and trying to figure everything out.  You better believe that I made sure we drafted this season though!  The results fell as follows:

As you can see, this was another one of those drafts for a show with an odd number of contestants.  I hate these kinds of drafts, but we've decided that Kayla will join the team that wins the first Nerd-Off of the season.  I was the first to pick in this draft thanks to my lovely draft win over Austin on Survivor: Blood vs. Water.  Overall, pretty pleased!  I will make it my mission to recap every episode this season!  

'King of the Nerds' returns to TBS on Thursday, January 23rd!

Are you going to watch this season of King of the Nerds?  
Are you #TeamHannah or #TeamAustin?  
Tell us in the comments below or tweet me @theonlytrace!