The current judges are being quite lazy. As of this writing, only one judge has been making votes, and even so, they’ve only made votes on nine people. Seems that delays are inevitable in this case.
Other the other hand though, in the near future, there will be a small competition relating to the banner for the blog. Yup, a BxT Blog Banner competition for the next banner to be used. More information about this will be posted later in the month.