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Originally Posted by Master of the Game  2) Now this I think is unfortunate, but having been a judge I could see how it would happen. The ENnies rely on publishers to honor the entry dates. Someone somewhere made a mistake and no one caught it. If the mistake was caught after voting was over and the date was off by a few days as an honest mistake, would you really take back their award? We're not talking about disqualifying someone, we're talking about a big, embarrassing retraction for a 5 day mistake. At worst the product would have been entered this year instead. It's not a small issue, and it hopefully will lead to better vetting in the future, but this is a reasonable way to handle the issue and learn from the mistake. |
I think this really bears more thinking about for the future. If a cutoff is not really a cutoff, would someone making a 10 or 20 day mistake be allowed in? I have no problem with the staff's decision, however I can see how this looks to some gamers like it's no big deal, to others that it's an accommodation to Monte since he's popular, and yet others that this may be a bit of a slippery slope but the decision to keep the award as is was fair.
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