Who is Tess anyway? What stories does she write? I know of a Tess, but I don't know if she writes fanfic, so not sure if it could be the same one...
In any case, no one should be winning 17 awards anywhere, no matter how good they are. That's just ridiculous. But then, it was the Mature Fan awards, right? Someone nominated a story of mine there once, and it won, except it was linked to my friend Bianca's site and listed under her name... so I'm not even really sure how it could have been judged, since they didn't have a correct link to the story LOL. Kinda backs up the theory that they might be rigged, right? I don't know anyone associated with those awards, so I don't think it was any friend of mine being biased, but maybe they just randomly assign winners?