It was truly a surprise and an honor to receive both the best short paper award for the paper Rank-DistiLLM: Closing the Effectiveness Gap Between Cross-Encoders and LLMs for Passage Re-ranking and the best paper honorable mention award for the paper Set-Encoder: Permutation-Invariant Inter-Passage Attention for Listwise Passage Re-Ranking with Cross-Encoders at the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2025 in Lucca, Italy. Thank you to all the co-authors for their continuous feedback and hard work.