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Okay, Meghan, I've read your posts here and on your thread on brilliantgameologists. I've read several long posts from you and waded through your board and I still don't see the big deal.

So. Your evidence thus far:

* Judges on the take? Nope. Not only that, but emphatically nope.

* Fees "unprecedented"! So... how much are the fees? Why don't you say? First off, talk to me when you have to buy thousands of dollars worth of school supplies for your high school classroom or travel to academic conferences without compensation or be left off next year's adjunct teaching list. Second, there's no fee, so that's strike two for you.

Together, these mistakes shot your credibility. Thus, these objections arose:

* You write: "the one who won, Changeling the Lost, had some of the writing I've ever seen in a book." Okay. Why? Can you give me some examples? Can you compare and contrast with other selections? Do you have any evidence other than that you say so? Let's see what your link says: "Changeling: The Lost: Idiot, Full of , and . Rating: 0" I see. So, still no examples.

* A judge on his blog stated that he liked a podcast. And it got nominated. A judge really liked one of the few works on Epic level play. And it got nominated. But what you don't prove is that one causes the other. See this common logical fallacy for what I suspect is going on here, because you undermined your credibility.

* You write: "Animalcast has a lot wrong with it and just isn't nearly the quality of many other podcasts- audio or content. A true critical, objective analysis would not have placed it in the top of all submissions." Again, can you give examples? Will you provide evidence to back up your assertions? Is that really too much to ask?

* You write: "And then another book which we were just confounded by as a nomination- Epic Role Playing- wasn't in the same class as the other nominees. It seemed like a good start, but very amateurish." How so? Examples? Any piece of evidence beyond your unsupported opinion?