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<blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 1044896" data-attributes="member: 363">As one of the ENnies judges, but speaking just for myself as a judge, I want to clearly state that not getting nominated in any given category absolutely does not mean something is of &quot;second tier&quot; status.This is one of the things that makes judging everyone and everything that enters the ENnies tough. Most categories had a lot of entries that had to be gone through. In many cases, there were potential nominees who almost made the cut as an actual nominee, but were edged out. How is this so? Well, the judges were certainly not of one mind on everything, and we often had to resort to voting amongst ourselves to finalize nominee lists. That means there were several companies and products that were on one or more judges' list, but did not get a nomination. Most of those potential nominees were well-respected by all the judges, but it simply came down to the fact we had to have a list of five nominees for each category. As you can probably guess, this means that just because something didn't get nominated doesn't mean it sucks or is second tier. I can say with all truthfulness there really wasn't anything I would call crap entered in the ENnies this year. That's what made the selection process even harder than last year. Some products and companies, had they been entered another year against different competition, would have easily made the nominee lists.&nbsp; The competition was really tight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ColonelHardisson, post: 1044896, member: 363"] As one of the ENnies judges, but speaking just for myself as a judge, I want to clearly state that not getting nominated in any given category [i]absolutely does [b]not[/b][/i] mean something is of "second tier" status. This is one of the things that makes judging everyone and everything that enters the ENnies tough. Most categories had a [i]lot[/i] of entries that had to be gone through. In many cases, there were potential nominees who almost made the cut as an actual nominee, but were edged out. How is this so? Well, the judges were certainly not of one mind on everything, and we often had to resort to voting amongst ourselves to finalize nominee lists. That means there were several companies and products that were on one or more judges' list, but did not get a nomination. Most of those potential nominees were well-respected by all the judges, but it simply came down to the fact we had to have a list of five nominees for each category. As you can probably guess, this means that just because something didn't get nominated doesn't mean it sucks or is second tier. I can say with all truthfulness there really wasn't anything I would call crap entered in the ENnies this year. That's what made the selection process even harder than last year. Some products and companies, had they been entered another year against different competition, would have easily made the nominee lists. The competition was really tight. [/QUOTE]

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