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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 976802" data-attributes="member: 172">I know you might have heard utterings to this effect already, but it deserves to be said here too: the competition was really tough. I know that a few companies and individuals will probably feel slighted, but there were a lot of selections that didn't make the final cut that the judges were pulling for. I feel particularly bad that one company, one book, and one writer weren't recognized, but I don't want to say much more on that score.We got more stuff than last year, and generally the stuff was of higher quality, which made some choices really daunting. A lot of races were really close. In one category, we had to break a four-way tie. Even in those that didn't tie, there were many that only missed by one-half vote.Oh, you might have noticed that in some categories, a company receives two nominations. There was a bit of a debate about that, but in some cases we felt that the company in question had some of the strongest entries. This year, the judges propose that the voters be allowed to pick any or all of the listed nominees in a given category to minimize the "self competition" effect.Edit: It appears that the cartographer in question was recognized. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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