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-We are pleased to announce that the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award for 2018 has been awarded to [Kenji Yoshida](https://twitter.com/xuwei_k). The award was presented in Lausanne at the outset of [Scala Days 2019](https://scaladays.org/ !!change the link once web team makes an archive link!! Eugene Yokota received it in Kenji's name at the conference, watch the ceremony [here](https://scaladays.org/schedule/phil-bagwell-award--closing-panel).
 
-Kenji is known to Scala users as:
+We are pleased to announce that the Phil Bagwell Memorial Scala Community Award for 2018 has been awarded to [Kenji Yoshida](https://twitter.com/xuwei_k). The award was presented in Lausanne at the outset of [Scala Days](https://scaladays.org/) 2019.
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+On stage, Eugene Yokota accepted the award on Yoshida-san's behalf.  You can watch the ceremony [here](https://scaladays.org/schedule/phil-bagwell-award--closing-panel).  (The ceremony also included the 2019 award to Kelley Robinson.)
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+## About the winner
 
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+Yoshida-san is known to Scala users as:
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+* Long-term maintainer of [scalaz](https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz), the first library to pioneer full support for pure-functional programming in Scala.
+* Prominent contributor to Scala 2.13.  His many pull requests to the Scala repo were done while he was on parental leave in 2018.
+* A ubiquitous presence in pull request queues across the Scala open-source world, in literally hundreds of projects.  Taken individually, his contributions are often small, but in aggregate, they are essential to our ecosystem's health.
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+Some of Yoshida-san's Japanese-language tweets are available in English translation at [@not_xuwei_k](https://twitter.com/not_xuwei_k).
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+## About the award
 
 The Bagwell Award is named in honor of Phil Bagwell, who passed away in 2012. In a [2012 blog post](https://www.typesafe.com/blog/rip-phil-bagwell), Martin Odersky remembers Phil and his special place in the Scala community.
 
-In 2019 at [the celebratory Scala Days](https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2019/01/17/scala-days-2019-celebrating-collaborative-success.html), 2 Phil Bagwell awards were given, 2018 and 2019. The Award Committee was assembled out of the previous Award winners (check below), who took [the Scala Community for nominations](https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2019/03/01/phil-bagwell-nominations.html) in consideration.
+The Award Committee consists of previous Award winners (see below). They took [community nominations](https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2019/03/01/phil-bagwell-nominations.html) into consideration.
 
 Past winners of the award:
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 * 2017: [Josh Suereth](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2017/09/25/bagwell-award-2017.html)
 * 2016: [Erik Osheim](https://www.scala-lang.org/news/2016/10/26/bagwell-award-2016.html)
 * 2015: [Bill Venners](http://scala-lang.org/news/2015/06/25/bagwell-award-2015.html)