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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dextra" data-source="post: 1917011" data-attributes="member: 5705">As for the old posts, just do a search for 2005 ENnies.  That's what I did.To increase awareness, I'd like to focus upon-higher profile at GenCon (better looking booth, flyers/pamphlets, an award ceremony that'd attract more gamers)-presence with retailers (most likely via stickers and other point of sale advertising for nominees and winners, work with distributors, etc)-more publisher involvement (via a selection of ads for their sites & sigs)-more awareness by gamers (mostly online advertising, but some work in gamer-related magazines)(now I've shown you mine, you show me yours!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> This year's ENnies are open to all pen & paper RPGs (and their accessories/aids).Winners would have the option of buying a trophy.  That's already in place from last year's awards.We probably can't sell anything at our booth.  We may set up some auctions on e-bay and at the GenCon game auction, but I won't count upon that money.  As for the shipping directly to the judges, that's something we're still working on:  But either the publishers ship to the judges (meaning they get their products seen earlier, giving the judges more time to evaluate them and reducing stress levels, but an increased PITA factor for the publishers) or they'll have to pay an entrance fee to cover the shipping from one central location to all the other judges (less PITA factor for the publishers, but more for the judges as they get swamped with hundreds of products to evaluate all in two months).  One of the options considered was that the judges would have to pay for their own shipping, which would come out to around $150-$250 each.  However, I would prefer it if affluence was not a determining factor for candidacy as a judge.   I'd hate to see a judge only be able to afford to participate if, say, they accepted a contribution from a gaming company.  I don't want to see bribery as part of the judge selection process.I don't know exactly how it'll turn out (heck, we may offer publishers the choice of direct shipping OR central shipping + fee), but it is my final stance that it shall not be the burden of the ENnies to pay for the costs of publishers submitting product for consideration.If we drastically reduce the trophy cost and eliminate the product shipping charges, then the ENnies can actually spend a little money on promotion and trying to address publishers' other concerns.  No matter what, the ENnies have to pay for themselves from now on.  They've come of age, and it's time to move out of the basement and into the limelight- and Big Daddy Morrus isn't going to bankroll this bastard child any more (other than publicizing it, and providing the voting mechanism and server space).  We're not going to have a separate fan's choice and judge's choice for each category.  Too much PITA.  More likely we'll have a Peer's Choice Award which is voted upon by publishers, judges, and select industry professionals, and a Fan's Choice "write-in" award for best game.Keep the suggestions coming, people, please.  I probably won't comment upon them, but rest assured they're being read and considered.  Also, feel free to email me your concerns at <a href="mailto:denise@ambient.ca">denise@ambient.ca</a> by the end of the month.</blockquote>

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