I'm sure Rotorua's Louise Nicholas isn't feeling too upset she didn't walk away with the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year title on Wednesday night.
It was a foregone conclusion that Richie McCaw was going to win.
Taking nothing away from the finalists, McCaw stood head and shoulders above theothers.
Twice he's brought the country together as a result of Rugby World Cup wins, he's been named the best rugby player in the world, been awarded the country's highest honour the Order of New Zealand, has been a role model to children, donated to charity, shown leadership skills like no other and to top it off has his fixed-wing pilot's licence.
It's the kind of over-achieving that usually makes us a little nauseous but McCaw isn't arrogant or in love with himself.
He has never lost that shy and genuinely humble approach that we like to think is truly a Kiwi characteristic.
He said on television show Paul Henry yesterday he didn't expect to win. He reckoned by looking through the list of finalists, there were some pretty amazing people who did things like changed the world.
