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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Conan Trustrum" data-source="post: 7674457" data-attributes="member: 1620">Despite what you think, it wasn't about "hey, this guy's product is so awesome it could beat us so we need to get it disqualified!" Most of the publishers that submitted are, after all, veterans of doing so and are used to not winning in all (or any) of the categories they go after. It's more about the market drawing wrong conclusions if the publishers so much as say anything that could be be taken to mean something unintended, be it about the IP standing of this particular work or something else, thereby eliciting the sort of reaction you just displayed.Putting fan content against for-profit content is simply one big minefield for companies that actually have a financial stake in both their products and their branding versus people who do not.  The more the ENnies move away from being a venue of benefits for for-profit publishers versus the possibility of such risks arising, the less incentive they have to participate. No finer way could have been presented to prove that than your quoted response.</blockquote>