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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nikchick" data-source="post: 1632807" data-attributes="member: 344">Fast Learner, I agree with you 100%.  In fact, I was the main advocate and strong proponent of the changes to the awards a few years ago that explicitly secured the rights of creators to fully participate in the process (including being allowed to submit their own best works without interference from publishers, and getting awards statues for the listed contributors in addition to the statues for the publishers.)  Unfortunately, and despite my best efforts to make sure this did not happen, a series of unavoidable circumstances conspired to prevent us from giving the authors credit during this year's ceremony itself, and then the website was updated from the text of the ceremony rather than the master file (which included the names of the contributors, the company names, and the full titles of the awards won, not the short-hand titles that were posted to the site).Of course, had the GAMA Board of Directors not had a 100% turnover of all seats up for election just two days earlier, there might have been someone with some idea of what was going on and how to sort the problems out onsite or after the fact.  Sadly, the new board has chosen not to work with those volunteers who came in under the old board, leaving many issues like this uncorrected either because of confusion over who has the power to make the changes or through the loss of the volunteers who would normally be responsible.</blockquote>

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