Does winning an award mean you are the best?

So, does winning a Tourism Whitsundays award mean that they are the best in that field?

Keli Medford, Manager Boathaven / Evoke, accepts her Tourism Whitsundays award for Marketing.

Third party services like Klout and Peer Index are socialmedia valuation services that independently 'score' a user on his or her ability to attract an audience; interact with them with authority; and 'influence the influential' in the world of social media.

Below we have captured the Social Media scores of the most popular Whitsundays SocialMedia accounts, and also included the winner of this years Tourism Whitsundays Award for Marketing - Keli Medford of Boathaven & Evoke Social Media.

Ms Medford is also a Director of Tourism Whitsundays, the same organization that gave out the awards.
UPDATED RATINGS as of 21 April 2012 here

SocialMedia User	Reach	Impact	Klout	Capital	Authority	Total
					In Top %
QLDOnline	392,653	96	48	60	1.0%	535,137
QLDWhitsundays	87,759	89	48	56	0.5%
QLDWhitsunday	53,501	89	48	56	0.5%
Roam Media	1,224	33	18	42	4.9%
Hamilton Island	6,409	73	40	26	26.7%
Tourism Whitsundays	1,124	59	38	1	100%
Alf Welch	333,179	95	36	54	4.4%
Evoke Social Media: Boathaven	0	9	12	4	100%	0
Evoke Social Media	no data	no data	no data	no data	no data

Some interesting stats about our sister SocialMedia user, QLDOnline. QLDOnline has:
61 times more reach than Hamilton Island;
350 times more reach than Tourism Whitsundays.
Our own SocialMedia account, QLDWhitsundays, is in the Top 0.5% of authoritative tweeters.