Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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The Golden Geek Award is given annually to the best new games of the year, as selected by you, the users. This year is our inaugural year for the Video Game world.
The "Geekies" will be given in the following categories:
For Board Games
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- Best Strategy Game
- Best Abstract Game (New Category)
- Best Thematic Game (New Category)
- Best Family Game
- Best Wargame
- Best 2-player Game
- Best Party Game
- Best Children's Game
- Best Card Game
- Best Artwork/Presentation
- Best Expansion
- Best Print & Play
- Most Innovative
For RPGs
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- RPG Game of the Year
- Best Artwork & Presentation
- Best Supplement
- Best Podcast
For Video Games
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- Video Game of the Year
- Best Visuals/Artwork
- Best Indie Game
- Best Mobile/Handheld Game
- Most Innovative Game
Here are the specifics:
In order to avoid voter fraud, we have adopted the following restrictions. Voting is restricted to either supporting users (having a supporter badge from any year is sufficient),voters who pay a one-time 20 GeekGold fee, or users who have purchased an avatar or a geekbadge.
Anyone caught stuffing the ballot box will have their votes removed and be suspended from the site.
There will be two steps to selecting the winners.
First, there will be a nomination phase. Each eligible voter can nominate up to 10 items in each of the categories. The 10 items with the most nominations in each category will become the nominees for the final voting. You are not restricted to the list of suggested nominees.
The board game nomination page is here.
The RPG nomination page is here.
The video game nomination page is here.
The final voting will be resolved using a condorcet voting system - specifically the Schulze method. You can read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method
For those who don't want to read the specifics of the system, users will rank the games in each category from 1 to 10, (with a 0 for no opinion), and, through some mathemagical computations, we will select the winner.
The nomination phase will run until 9/30 and the final voting for one more month (10/31). The winners will be announced at BoardGameGeek.CON 2011 in November.
You are welcome to campaign, discuss voting and nominations, etc, as much as you like. Let the awards begin!
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Robert Ramirez
United States
San Antonio
Texas
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Deus Ex FTW!
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JB Van Leishout
United States
Olympia
Washington
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you said BoardGameGeek.CON
did you mean BoardGameGeek.COM
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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Jamesbv7 wrote: you said BoardGameGeek.CON
did you mean BoardGameGeek.COM
BGGCON = BoardGameGeek.CON = GEEKCON, I think we've used 3 names for the convention.
BGGCON
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Rick Baptist
United States
Redlands
California
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Has it been a year already? Love doing this.
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James Fehr
Canada
Edmonton
Alberta
BGG.CON 2011 was awesome! Great to meet many of you! Follow my gaming exploits on Twitter (fehrmeister)
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You've done a great job with the interface for choosing nominees this year! It's very easy to filter the games by what I've played, and then nominate a game for multiple awards if I want to. Well done!
And we've got a very good crop of games to nominate from! Although maybe not as good as next year will be...
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Thanks for holding this event, I always enjoy this.
The filtering is pretty cool as another user commented.
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Joe Huber
Westborough
Massachusetts
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Scott,
When I try to select a game by name, it can never find the game. (Even games on the list - I tried Color Stix, as one example - don't show up.) As a result, I'm having difficulty nominating a game not on the list (Don Q. und die Vermessung von La Mancha, specifically).
Using Chrome, in case that matters...
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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huber wrote: Scott, When I try to select a game by name, it can never find the game. (Even games on the list - I tried Color Stix, as one example - don't show up.) As a result, I'm having difficulty nominating a game not on the list ( Don Q. und die Vermessung von La Mancha, specifically). Using Chrome, in case that matters...
Thanks - I'll check it out.
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Michael Weber
Germany
Wendeburg
Germany
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huber wrote: Scott, When I try to select a game by name, it can never find the game. (Even games on the list - I tried Color Stix, as one example - don't show up.) As a result, I'm having difficulty nominating a game not on the list ( Don Q. und die Vermessung von La Mancha, specifically). Using Chrome, in case that matters...
Almost the same is true here - I wanted to nominate A Few Acres of Snow and was not able to do so (using Safari on a Mac Lion) - it can neither be found nor is it on the list
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CycyX
France
Magny en Vexin
Val d'Oise
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Same thing here: can't find Zaibatsu for PnP award (Opera on Windows 7 64bits).
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Chris Schenck
United States
Dayton
Ohio
GO BUCKS!
Stop touching me!
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Must eligible nominees have a publication date of 2011?
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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cbs42 wrote: Must eligible nominees have a publication date of 2011?
No, we're pretty lax on this - a lot of games came out at the end of 2010 that can qualify here.
Also, I fixed the searcher so it's working again.
A Few Acres of Snow is listed under 'F'
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Jon K
United States
Sacramento
California
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r3gamer wrote: Deus Ex FTW!
Absolutely!
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Geoff Hall
United Kingdom
Yate
Bristol
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How do you determine what is eligible for nomination? For instance you have Eclipse on there, which doesn't come out until Essen, yet I can't find Chaos in the Old World: The Horned Rat Expansion to nominate in the Expansion category? I'm assuming that I've missed something obvious but I can't figure out what.
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Chewtron Volbacca
United States
Greensboro
North Carolina
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Do I need to 'submit' my votes, or is entering them enough?
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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The list just goes off games that have been entered into the databaes - it's by no means the only games that can be or should be nominated. It's up to the users to decide whether something is eligible.
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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joefain wrote: Do I need to 'submit' my votes, or is entering them enough?
They are saved immediately.
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Joe Huber
Westborough
Massachusetts
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Aldie wrote: Also, I fixed the searcher so it's working again.
Thanks, Scott! Working like a charm...
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Kennan Ward
United States
Abilene
Texas
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r3gamer wrote: Deus Ex FTW!
Deus Ex, Witcher 2, or Bastian for me.
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Japan
Tokushima
Most language free systems aren't this clear, or easy to learn! Awesome!
I'm back, and ER is STILL #1 in my book!
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It doesn't seem to be working like a charm for me, sadly! It says to hit the nominate button at the top, middle of the screen... I squint and open my eyes wide and... no button...
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Michael Fox
United Kingdom
Milton Keynes
Bucks
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No Best Podcast for the Board Games again? Poop. Not that I'd be in with a chance, but I'd like to vote for the ones I really like
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Mike Haverty
United States
Owasso
OK
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I may be obtuse, but how do we remove a nomination?
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Nick Reed
United Kingdom
Southampton
Hampshire
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SiddGames wrote: I may be obtuse, but how do we remove a nomination?
Click the "-" icon to the right of the nomination in the right column.
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Ryan S
United States
Plano
Texas
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Seems sad that this award occurs several months before the end of the year, what with a bunch of new games coming out soon.
I wanted to vote for Disgaea 4 as the best video game of the year, but it's not in the list. The US version comes out 9/6 (Tuesday), but I've put over 100 hours in the Japanese import version already.
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Posted Fri Sep 2, 2011 12:48 am
