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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1720822" data-attributes="member: 177">On permannt categories - "semi-permanent" would perhaps be better.  The awards need to be able to flex and change as the industry and hobby changes.Awards for individual contributors woudl be hairy, to say the least.  Keep the entries in terms of products we can get our hands on, not on individual peope whom we have to track over many products.Fees - Well, somebody has to pay for the whole thing.  If, as BK says, that GenCon itself kicks in some dough, good.  If that's not enough, then the folks entering products perhaps have to pitch in a few bucks.Logistically speaking, though, there's issues with sending product to individual judges.  It is, I am sure, hard enough to keep track of all the stuff that gets shipped around.  Shipping from publishers directly to all the judges will multiply that headache. It may be worth a few extra dollars to keep submissions centralized.Spreading out the judging - No.  No, no, and again, no.  If GenCon wants the awards to be based upon broader fan representation than is found here at EN World, then they can organize, fund, and execute their own awards.  All matters of tradition aside, we do not want to get into the political headaches and ill-will that would be engendered in ourpicking and choosing who gets to give judges, and how many.</blockquote>