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You are invited to vote for the Pearple’s Choice Awards 2021!
You do not need to have nominated in order to vote. Sadly, the poll functions of this board can’t cope with preference voting, so instead please send me a PM. For each category, put the things you want to vote for in descending order, as it might be:
best pear award
game A
game Q
game T
You don’t have to vote in every category, or order every nominee - if you get to a point where you don’t have a preference between what’s left, just stop voting there. Voting “No award” is mostly for the special case where you would rather see the award not made at all than go to horrible game X (which you then don’t put on your ballot at all). Probably the easiest option is the drag-and-drop voting form.
All the first-place votes are counted first. If there isn’t a clear majority, whatever got least votes is eliminated, and those ballots’ second-choice votes are distributed among the remaining candidates. This continues until there is a clear majority.
Voting ends at 2021-02-04T09:00:00Z.
The list of nominees is below. Items are ordered randomly except for No Award.
Best Game
- Bullet♥
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
- Oath
- Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 2
- Galaxy Trucker 2nd Ed
- Bristol 1350
- No Award
Best Cooperative Game
- Mind MGMT
- Descent
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
- Sleeping Gods
- Inspector Mouse: The Great Escape
- Bullet♥
- Unfathomable
- No Award
Best Heavy Game
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
- Kemet: Blood and Sand
- Steampunk Rally Fusion
- Sleeping Gods
- Mercado de Lisboa
- Blood on the Clocktower
- Oath
- No Award
Best Light Game
- Bullet♥
- Unfathomable
- Canvas
- Art Robbery
- Inspector Mouse: The Great Escape
- Mind MGMT
- Railroad Ink Challenge
- Bristol 1350
- Galaxy Trucker 2nd Ed
- No Award
Best Soloable Game
- Bullet♥
- Hadrian’s Wall
- Storm Above the Reich
- Descent
- Destinies
- Sleeping Gods
- Chronicles of Crime: 2400
- Railroad Ink Challenge
- No Award
Best Thematic Game
- Roll Camera
- Unfathomable
- Summoner Wars 2nd edition
- Oath
- Kemet: Blood and Sand
- Burgle Bros 2
- Galaxy Trucker 2nd Ed
- No Award
Best Game Artwork
- Descent
- Shamans
- Stella: Dixit Universe
- Oath
- Gladius
- Mind MGMT
- Canvas
- Jekyll vs. Hyde
- Radlands
- So You’ve Been Eaten
- Flourish
- Galaxy Trucker 2nd Ed
- No Award
Best Expansion
- Chronicles of Crime: 2400
- Kemet: Blood and Sand - Book of the Dead
- Railroad Ink Challenge: Epic Board
- Paladins of the West Kingdom: City of Crowns
- Unmatched: Battle of Legends Volume 2
- Railroad Ink: Lush Green Edition
- Ride the Rails: Australia & Canada
- Root: Clockwork Expansion (German edition)
- MicroMacro Full House
- No Award
Erik Tengblad Award
(older game discovered recently)
- 878 Vikings
- Troyes
- Tigris and Euphrates
- A War of Whispers
- Spirit Island
- Wir Sind Das Volk
- No Award
Best Game Review
- Hostage Negotiator: Career (SUSD)
- Colonialism (NPI)
- Detective: City of Angels (SUSD)
- Oath (SUSD)
- City of the Big Shoulders (SUSD)
- Railroad Ink & Expansions (SUSD)
- No Award
Minutewalt Award
(socially distanced game)
- Haiclue
- Twilight Struggle
- Wavelength
- Oath
- Welcome To…
- Mysterium
- Just One
- Codenames: Duet
- No Award
pillbox Award
(anticipated big multiplayer game)
- Anachrony
- Empires of the Void II
- Dune
- Merchants & Marauders
- Sidereal Confluence
- The Great Zimbabwe
- Kemet: Blood and Sand
- Twilight Imperium 4th Edition Prophecy of Kings
- Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy
- No Award
anti-pillbox Award
(played big multiplayer game)
- The Great Zimbabwe
- Roads & Boats
- Xia: Legends of a Drift System
- La Città
- Star Trek: Ascendancy
- Telestrations (Quebec Edition)
- Hansa Teutonica
- Anachrony
- Root
- Viticulture
- A War of Whispers
- No Award
Mature Pearple
(best 2016 game)
- Junk Art
- Terraforming Mars
- Flamme Rouge
- A Feast for Odin
- Inis
- Star Wars Rebellion
- No Award