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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 1688740" data-attributes="member: 2855">There was also discussion of including those who do product reviews on a regular basis as part of the judging panels.So far there has been lots of various ideas thrown about (including one by Nisarg's hero of having ONLY retailers judge the awards).However, the one of the more welcomed suggestions was to create a judges panel from all portions of the gaming industry (retailers, creatives, distributors, editors, reviewers, etc..). Another suggestion was to require each judge to provide a short bit of reasoning for voting why he did, and making his voting record public. Yet another suggestion was to make the voting totals public but not who voted for what.In short there has been many various suggestions on how to handle the future Origins Awards. One thing that everybody could agree on was that the rules and guidelines need to be codified in a solid manner, so that no matter who is Chair, impropiety cannot be claimed.In the past, there was too much that was arbitrary to the will of the Chair, that is one thing that will definitely be changing. What the final form of the awards for next year will be, I don't know yet, nobody does. The Origins Awards Task Force (all one of him), has called for full-fledged proposals on how the awards will be administered and overseen and how they will work in the future. The task force list (with lots of non-task force members) will then debate the positives and negatives of each proposal before the task force selects the required 3 proposals to submit to the GAMA Board. The Board is then supposed give feedback, before they select the one to put to a vote before the GAMA members.Still a long ways to go....</blockquote>

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