Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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Announcing The 2009 Golden Geek Awards!
The Golden Geek Award is given annually to the best new games of the year, as selected by you, the users.
The "Geekies" will be given in the following categories:
- Best Gamers' Game
- Best Family Game
- Best Wargame
- Best 2-player Game
- Best Party Game
- Best Children's Game
- Best Card Game
- Best Artwork/Presentation
- Best Expansion (NEW CATEGORY)
- Best Print & Play (NEW CATEGORY)
- Most Innovative (NEW CATEGORY)
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 15 games in each of the categories. The 15 games 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 - feel free to write-in a game by entering its gameid number directly. Previous winners are not eligible for nomination.
The nomination page is here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekawards
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 15, (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 2009 in November - www.boardgamegeek.com/bggcon
You are welcome to campaign, discuss voting and nominations, etc, as much as you like. Let the awards begin!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekawards
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Jeff Wolfe
United States
Columbus
Ohio
Permanent microbadges: Zendo fan, Columbus Blue Jackets fan, Dominion Fan (one of these days I'll make the background non-white)
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Aldie wrote: he nomination phase will run until 9/31, and the final voting for one more month (10/31). The winners will be announced at BoardGameGeek.CON 2009 in November - www.boardgamegeek.com/bggcon
Last I checked, September had 30 days.
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Jonny Lawless
United States
Bountiful
Utah
Love my Lil'bug!
My name is Glenn! Long have I carried Cyrus's hopes and dreams, and now I bear the Masamune as well! Henceforth, I claim them as my own! I shall slay the Fiendlord Magus and restore our honor!
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I always vote along AT party lines and encourage others to do the same.
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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jeffwolfe wrote: Aldie wrote: he nomination phase will run until 9/31, and the final voting for one more month (10/31). The winners will be announced at BoardGameGeek.CON 2009 in November - www.boardgamegeek.com/bggconLast I checked, September had 30 days.
Aye - it's been a long day.
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Jonny Lawless
United States
Bountiful
Utah
Love my Lil'bug!
My name is Glenn! Long have I carried Cyrus's hopes and dreams, and now I bear the Masamune as well! Henceforth, I claim them as my own! I shall slay the Fiendlord Magus and restore our honor!
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Aldie wrote: jeffwolfe wrote: Aldie wrote: he nomination phase will run until 9/31, and the final voting for one more month (10/31). The winners will be announced at BoardGameGeek.CON 2009 in November - www.boardgamegeek.com/bggconLast I checked, September had 30 days. Aye - it's been a long day.
I hear ya! My favorite site was down for hours today!
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Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
Hungary
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As far as I understand the order of the nominations (1.2.3. etc) doesn't make a difference, right? (I just can't change their order.)
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Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
Hungary
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Does '2-player' mean games that can be played only 2-player or that are great when played 2-player?
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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lacxox wrote: As far as I understand the order of the nominations (1.2.3. etc) doesn't make a difference, right? (I just can't change their order.)
It doesn't matter - in fact I removed the numbers to avoid confusion.
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Scott Alden
United States
Dallas
Texas
Aldie's Full of Love!
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lacxox wrote: Does '2-player' mean games that can be played only 2-player or that are great when played 2-player?
Typically they have been strictly 2 player games, but we're open to interpretation.
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Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
Hungary
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thanks for the quick answers.
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Jonny Lawless
United States
Bountiful
Utah
Love my Lil'bug!
My name is Glenn! Long have I carried Cyrus's hopes and dreams, and now I bear the Masamune as well! Henceforth, I claim them as my own! I shall slay the Fiendlord Magus and restore our honor!
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Is it too early for the new Space Hulk to get nods?
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Jesse Dean
United States
Orlando
Florida
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious predator on Earth!
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Man, the list has quite effectively reminded me of how bad the last year really was for new games. A shame, really.
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oskari
Finland
Helsinki
corals... yummy!
I'm a blood-sucking fiend! Look at my outfit!
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How do I search my ratings for games from a specific year?
Which games are eligible, and how do games end up on the list on the nomination page?
Lots of stuff seems to be missing from the list again, for example, Dominion: Intrigue, Race for the Galaxy: Rebel vs Imperium, and three of the Kinderspiel des Jahres nominees. If stuff like this gets nominated, is it automatically included in the list?
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Jesse Dean
United States
Orlando
Florida
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious predator on Earth!
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I saw RFTG: Rebel vs. Imperium on there.
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Giles Pritchard
Australia
Shepparton
Victoria
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For all the usual "Game mechanics are just being recycled and nothing is fresh any more/the end is nigh" discussions that we usually have at the end/beginning of a year, I really think there were a lot of high quality games released! I am very impressed - some really top notch games (at least in my opinion).
Cheers,
Giles.
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Werner Bär
Germany
Karlsruhe
Baden
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oskari wrote:
For the expansions, you need to check [x]expansions to see them; they are not included in the main list.
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Uisge Beatha
Scotland
http://www.thekanofoundation.com/
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Erm, is there a way to withdraw nominations? My memory of previous years is that there was?
My theory was that if I reached the limit and wanted to add more I could remove the least deserving potential nominee. Since that didn't seem to work I've ended up with an alphabetical imbalance!
Please help; Snow Tails and Steel Driver deserve better.
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Ben Lott
United States
Mason
Michigan
It's time to play the music, It's time to light the lights...
Wocka Wocka Wocka!!
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In the future please include a link from geekdo.com as well. This would save a step for those of us who are browsing with geekdo. (For the others like me, the link is http://boardgame.geekdo.com/geekawards)
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Ben Lott
United States
Mason
Michigan
It's time to play the music, It's time to light the lights...
Wocka Wocka Wocka!!
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Celtic wrote:
Erm, is there a way to withdraw nominations? My memory of previous years is that there was?
My theory was that if I reached the limit and wanted to add more I could remove the least deserving potential nominee. Since that didn't seem to work I've ended up with an alphabetical imbalance!
Please help; Snow Tails and Steel Driver deserve better.
Just click the little red circle next to the nominated game that you want to remove.
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Mike B
Netherlands
Utrecht
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doubtofbuddha wrote: Man, the list has quite effectively reminded me of how bad the last year really was for new games. A shame, really.
And here's the first nomination for the category "BGG members that moan about how everything used to be much better before" that always show up yearly in these lists... 
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Randy Cox
United States
Clemson
South Carolina
1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!
The Back Alley gets no respect.
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BUG
I cannot add a game. I'm trying to add Consensus and Identik (one of these is a 2008 release and doesn't even show in the main list). I click the "search" option and type in part of the name, just like I did to find the names in this post, but when I click on the game's name, nothing happens. The link doesn't dissappear and it doesn't do anything. I eventually have to click on the grey X in a circle next to the search box to stop trying to add a much needed game to nominate for party game and game of the year.
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Gabe Covert
United States
Lexington
Kentucky
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How about a Solitaire category for next year? I think games that include rules for or are designed as solitaire games is something that could really use recognition...
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Jesse Dean
United States
Orlando
Florida
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious predator on Earth!
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MikeBwithoutadot wrote: doubtofbuddha wrote: Man, the list has quite effectively reminded me of how bad the last year really was for new games. A shame, really. And here's the first nomination for the category "BGG members that moan about how everything used to be much better before" that always show up yearly in these lists...
Woo! I'm nominated! I am a contender!!!!!
To be fair though, this is the first year I have felt that way. Last year there were a bunch of games that I thought were great: Agricola, Brass, Race For the Galaxy, Wabash Cannonball/Chicago Express, Container, and Warriors of God.
This year I have Le Havre, Automobile (maybe), and a handful of expansions that I am really digging.
So for me this year has been a big step down from last year.
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David Reed
United States
College Station
Texas
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Aldie wrote:
- Best Expansion (NEW CATEGORY)
- Best Print & Play (NEW CATEGORY)
- Most Innovative (NEW CATEGORY)
Excellent new categories!
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Posted Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:42 am
tiles, to permit MORE than that on participating, due to the limited amount with certain kind! It could also be considered as "Most Innovative"!, because, well, it WERE! I'm also looking for someone to provide various other LANGUAGE specific sorts, such as with using other than "English" lettering, like with Chinese, Hebrew, etc.
