[ENnies] Important ENnies Dates

[reveal]

Hello once again from the ENnies!

As you know, the window for submissions has closed. The judges now face the difficult task of picking which products out of the plethora of received material deserve to be nominated. It's a daunting task, to say the least.

One of the judges, Jeramy Ware, has done an excellent job of listing products that have been submitted. If you wish to see what your favorite company/website submitted, visit this link.

Eventually, the fans will be presented with a list of nominees and can make their voices heard. They will also have the ability to nominate their favorite publishers for the "Fan's Choice for Best Publisher" ENnie.

In this update, I've included a list of dates to put on your calendar. Here's what you have to look forward to:

• June 1 - Product submissions closed
• July 10 - Fans can start nominating publishers for the "Fan's Choice for Best Publisher" ENnie.
• July 13 - Nominees for products will be announced
• July 17 - Last day to nominate publishers
• July 24 - The fan voting begins!
• July 24 - Those who wish to take up the mantle of "ENnies Judge" start to officially campaign for the position
• Aug 1 - Last day of fan voting
• Aug 2 - Voting for ENnies judges begins
• Aug 9 - Voting for ENnies judges closes
• Aug 14 - The ENnie Awards ceremony at GenCon

These dates are subject to change, of course, but should never change by more than one or two days.

I don't know about you, but I'm getting more and more excited about the ENnies, and GenCon itself, by the day! I look forward to seeing most of you come August. If you're going to be at GenCon and want to volunteer your time at the ENnies booth in the Dealer's Hall, you can get more information here.

As always, if you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. You can either reply here or e-mail me directly at pr@ennieawards.com.

Tony Law
ENnies PR Coordinator

 

[Aberzanzorax]

What are the duties of an ENnies judge?

Is location or attendance at Gen Con an issue?

 

[Crothian]

What are the duties of an ENnies judge?

Read through, evaluate, play (what you can), listen, watch, etc all the entries. It's a lot of work. At this time of year it is liking having a second job. You also have to be able to explain why you liked the things you liked to the other judges and be willing to listen to and keep an open mind about everything. You have to be able to put aside person bias and preferences.

Did I mention it's a lot of work? It takes a bit of time to read through a 600 pg RPG and learn it. This year I think we have about 20 new RPGs so that is a little time consuming. We have about 100 podcasts to listen to and those range from about 30 minutes to well over an hour each. I think the longest this year is over three hours. And most thing you want to read more then once. You need to be able to take good to great notes on everything because sometimes books you've read 6 months ago you kind of forget the strengths and weaknesses of. It is easy to deal with the books that are totally awesome and the ones that are just terrible. But maybe half a percent of the books we get would fall into such extremes.

 

[reveal]

What are the duties of an ENnies judge?

Crothian did an excellent job of explaining that one.

Is location or attendance at Gen Con an issue?

Not at all. The judges are spread out through the US. And I know that two judges will not be at GenCon this year.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

That sounds exciting!

I take it that campaigning this year to become a judge would result in becoming a judge for next year's ENnies, is that correct?

 

[reveal]

That sounds exciting!

I take it that campaigning this year to become a judge would result in becoming a judge for next year's ENnies, is that correct?

If you're voted in, yes. Judges are elected by the communtiy.

 

[Crothian]

That sounds exciting!

It's more like making sausage.

 

[Piratecat]

It's more like making sausage.

Yup. The end result is great, but you really don't want to know about the process.

I've been a judge three or four times. I love it, but it's time consuming and exhausting; the comparison to another job is a very accurate one.

 

[Rokes]

Dream Date Auction time lines? (requirements for publishers, auction starts date, etc)

 

[Aberzanzorax]

That's funny, especially because I have made my own sausages!

(The trick is to not put gross things into it and to use synthetic casings instead of intestines, which are kinda gross in my mind).



In any case, as someone who spends most of the day, almost every day, reading up on roleplaying (and likes it so much he scrapped a 100 page dissertation to switch to writing on RPG use for clinical psychology) this sounds like a great time!

I'm sure it has its downs, and I don't doubt it is a lot of effort, but I wouldn't consider it work, as reading and playing supplements of any game is what I do anyway for fun!