The decision to cease awards for these games was made based on a lack of community participation.Ī proposed solution was a committee comprised of community members that pledged to act as judges for the year. In 2018 the last awards were held for RPGs and Video Games. Anyone caught stuffing the ballot box will have their votes removed and be suspended permanently from the site. Voters who pay a one-time 20 GeekGold fee or supporting users (having a supporter badge from any year is sufficient) can also participate.Ģ. Voting is restricted to users who have purchased an avatar or a geekbadge. In order to avoid voter fraud, we have adopted the following restrictions:ġ.

Games or Podcasts that have won the Golden Geek Award in the past are not eligible to be nominated again.

The current rule for the Print & Play category is that the nominees may not be a title that has been, in the process of being published or crowdfunded during the award period.

The change was made to ensure that all nominated games were from the same year.

In 2014 the nomination and voting date was changed to January, the earliest it had ever been. Note: Prior to 2014, eligible games had to have been released from the latter half of the previous year to the latter half of the current year From October 2012 to September 2013 for example. Nominees and Winners are allowed to display the appropriate Golden Geek Award for the year they were nominated/won on their websites and game packaging. What award (if any) the 10 to 15 nominees receive is decided during the voting round.ģ.) A physical Golden Geek medal and award letter are sent out to both the publisher and designer/developer of the winning games provided we can get in touch with them via website, email, snail mail, facebook, twitter, etc.

Voting is conducted using the Schulze method. Only the top 10 to 15 most nominated games during the 'nomination phase' make it to the 'voting round' and become eligible for any awards.Ģ.) A 'voting round' is then held for approximately three weeks. Every eligible voter can nominate up to 10 games in each of the categories. The winners of the Golden Geek are nominated and selected through voting by the user communities of the BGG, RPGG, and VGG website.ġ.) A preliminary 'nomination round' is held for approximately 1 month (usually in January or February), during which the community nominates games released over the year that they think are worthy of receiving an award.

Nominees are from a selection of games released over the course of the previous year. The Golden Geek Awards are presented every year at the BGG.Con event in Dallas, Texas.

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