Announcing The 2008 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

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.php

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 for one month (9/22), and the final voting for one more month (10/31). The winners will be announced at BoardGameGeek.CON 2008 in November.

You are welcome to campaign, discuss voting and nominations, etc, as much as you like. Let the awards begin!

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekawards.php

Microbadges will be awarded to participants.

I don't see Tiki Topple on the list. Will it be there next year?

Wow, what a phenomenal year for games, both in Euro-Style games and Wargames.

Should be there now.

Mutant Chronicles CMG is in there but still isn't out.

Last year, you changed the one time 20 gg fee to anyone having an avatar. Will there be any chance of this happening again?

I have to say that I really like the format and interface for these awards.

I would love to have the ability to make these genre-specific top ten lists on the user profile page...

My first chance to participate in the GGA -- cool!

And remember, just because you think a multiplayer game plays best with two does not make it a "2-player Game."

And remember, there's a difference between "family game" and "children's game." For example, Aquaretto may be a good family game, but that does not mean it's a "children's game."

And remember, just because a game is card-driven, does not make it a card game. 1960: The Making of the President is not a card game.

Hmm, you didn't bold and italicize Agricola so it's going to be too hard to find now

It is, if we say it is. That's what's great about these awards.

Good thing it starts with an 'A'.