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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dextra" data-source="post: 3020468" data-attributes="member: 5705">Thanks, Gareth!At the moment I'm not considering sweeping changes, just tweaking or fine tuning.  We're still going to have five fan judges elected by fandom to jury the submissions.  The process by which the judges are selected and from whence they are drawn mayl change slightly, but the basic criteria are the same: these are fan awards, not industry awards, so judges cannot be industry professionals, nor have affiliations with publishers.We will continue to insist that publishers submit 6 copies of their works, although the central shipping option has been eliminated, and the submission period opened up far earlier (I collected a tonne of submissions from Gen Con Indy which are already to ship as soon as the judges are selected).We're going to keep to 20 +/- categories, most of which will remain as is.We will continue to encourage the publishers to put up free samples of their products once the nominations are announced, and allow at least a one-week familiarization phaze between the nomination announcement and voting booths opening.The nominees will be voted upon by fandom who do not need to be members of EN World, and we will continue to solicit votes from ALL gamers.  I may consider setting up a voting booth at Origins so people can vote for their favourite publisher there.The winners will be announced at Gen Con Indy on the Friday night.</blockquote>