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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eridanis" data-source="post: 670629" data-attributes="member: 275">I'm not sure setting an early deadline just to get the nominees into the GenCon program is a good idea. Here's why.Assuming an April 1st cutoff, the judges spend April reviewing product, and getting their nominees to you and GenCon by May 2nd. At that point, there's nearly three months until the actual awards ceremonies. While you could stagger things, and hold the voting in early June for instance (and making the judges read "who got nominated?" posts and emails for a month), and then stretch out the suspense of the winners for another two months until the ceremony, it still makes things very drawn-out and lessens the excitement of the proceedings, it seems to me.Anyone who is voting for the awards knows the nominees, and those GenCon attendees who don't see a listing in the program could be satisfied with a flier that we could print or photocopy for distribution right at the Con.If we want to spread the word a little, then perhaps we could contact DRAGON to see if they'd be willing to print the nominees in the August issue (which would reach subscribers and newstands in July). If the deadline for that issue was, say, June 16th, you could set a cutoff deadline at May 15th, do the judging over a month, get the nominees in on June 16th, do the voting a week or two after that, and then it would only be a month until GenCon.Just a few ideas.</blockquote>