The old forum is gone, but the Pearple’s Choice (as begun by clg6000) is still here, and we’re catching up on 2019 as well! Please now send your nominations by private message to @RogerBW; you may nominate in as many categories as you like, up to five items per category. (We’re using the Hugo voting rules which I can explain in more detail if you like.)
Here are the categories and a quick guide to eligibility:
Best game of 2019-2020 (should have a BGG publication year of 2019-2020)
Best [type] game of 2019-2020, where [type] is each of:
Abstract Strategy
Children’s
Customizable
Family
Party
Soloable
Strategy
Thematic
War
(BGG pub year is 2019-2020, and [type] appears in the top two types on the game’s BGG page, except for Soloable; in that case either official or fan player count includes 1.)
Best game artwork (BGG pub year is 2019-2020)
Best expansion (BGG pub year is 2019-2020; can be an expandalone but must be combinable with another game)
Erik Tengblad award for best game from an earlier year I only played for the first time in 2019-2020 (BGG pub year is earlier than 2019)
Best game review (first published in 2019-2020) (not necessarily by SU&SD)
Minutewalt award for 2020: Best socially distanced game (any game is eligible)
pillbox award for 2020: Game you’re anticipating but haven’t had a chance to get enough players over yet (any game is eligible)
Nominations will close on 14 December; voting will run until 11 January. Nomination rules are not strict; if a game came out in 2018 but got a much wider release in 2019, just explain this in your nomination and we’ll probably allow it.
Please feel free to tell other SU&SD fans and game players in general about this thread. (I don’t do Discord/Disqus for example.)
[edit by pillbox]
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Well, the idea is that nominations should be private – the more people nominate something, the more likely it is to be on the final ballot. But if you want to tell people what you’re nominating too, that’s fine…
I won’t have a lot of nominations for several categories… also several of these like Party Games and Children’s Games are curiously empty for the past 2 years.
Click in the Search box on the top right, then click “Advanced Search”
Fill out the “Year Released Range” for 2019 through 2020
Optionally, you can filter by games with at least 10 user ratings (or any number that seems reasonable; this will filter out a surprising number of cruft)
Optionally, you can filter by games marked as “Owned” or “Rated” in your collection, if you have a collection
Most of the “Category” votes this year correlate to one of the Subdomains, so one-at-a-time, you could search “Abstract Games”, “Children’s Games”, “Customizable Games”, “Family Games”, “Party Games”, “Strategy Games” and “Wargames”.
For the solo games, just set the “# of Players Range”'s first box to 1.
This process/search not account for the requirement that Roger has set out that the “Type” (subdomain) has to be one of the first two listed on the game page – that will have to be manually checked.
I struggled to think of more than one game (and one expansion) for all the 2019-2020 categories, and the search just confirmed what I had expected - I haven’t played any other new games! Feels a bit off to nominate a game as “best of 2019-2020” when I don’t have any contemporary games to compare it to, but since I think it is one of the best games I’ve played, I guess it’s OK.
You may nominate in as many categories as you like. In each category you may make up to five nominations. (Edited the first post to make this clearer.)
These are all scored with a weighting system (so if you nominate 5 games they get 0.2 nominating points each), and the games with fewest nominating points and nominations are eliminated until there are six left. If a game you nominated is eliminated, the nominating points are redistributed to the other games you nominated that are still in contention. This is only a partial explanation; more details are at that Hugo voting rules link.
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