Quote from: Darrin Kelley;952713Jacob wasn't the only contributor to one of the products involved.

Less than optimal doesn't even remotely describe this. When you have judges commenting on products they helped produce. The conflict of interest is laid bare.

Your awards were rigged from the outset.

Guess you're talking about Steve Kenson being a contributor to Aaron's Allston's Strike Force. I'll go ahead and put a note on the blog page that Steve was a contributor.
OH WAIT
I just checked - and Steve mentioned that in the first few sentences.

Rigged?


HOOO-boy. Thanks for the smile, fella.

Quote from: Darrin Kelley;952730Every state in the United States has laws regarding contests or awards. It's best to be aware of them.

The Colorado Attorney General Office can be reached at
Address: 1300 Broadway, Denver, CO 80202
Phone: (720) 508-6000

You need to let them know about this great travesty, Matlock. Get on it!

Quote from: Tommy Brownell;952727Well, there are no prizes, other than bragging rights, so I'm not sure about the legalities of anything. I recall Mike specifically asked us not to pick anything his company put out, because of the appearance of impropriety.

If it was the fan vote, then that's entirely independent of a judge. If it was a judge picking a product that another judge worked on, I don't think it's a big deal unless that judge was hitting up the other judge and asking for the push.

If it was a judge picking something they had worked on themselves...then yeah, that's bad.

It was Steve selecting Aaron's Allston's Strike Force. But he made it clear in the first few sentences. The primary authors were Michael Surbrook and the late Aaron Allston. A bunch of RPG luminaries were invited to do essays talking about superhero campaigns and/or the influence the original Strike Force had on them. Those essays were included in the book (as part of the kickstarter). Strike Force also received the most votes in the open poll.

Given the number of RPG luminaries who have published for the superhero genre who had essays in Strike Force - I'm surprised we didn't have two judges who were contributors. At least one BAMFSIE judge from a prior year that I'm aware of also has an essay in there.

I can understand the concern - but since Steve mentions his involvement right in the review - I thought that was sufficient.

thread necro!
We are now having the open call for nominees for the 2017 BAMFSIES Gamers Choice poll.

Link: http://bamfsies.blogspot.com/2017/11/its-time-open-call-for-2017-bamfsies.html

I have never heard of these awards nor the products listed for last year aside from Strike Force. Is this really a thing with professionals judging games products?

Quote from: Dumarest;1005014I have never heard of these awards nor the products listed for last year aside from Strike Force.

It's cool - I asked those guys and they had never heard of you either

Quote from: Dumarest;1005014Is this really a thing with professionals judging games products?

Nope. Not really. I'll break it down for you:

1) We invite a panel of RPG industry folks to serve as judges by spotlighting their favorite superhero RPG product from the last year.

2) It's not like the Ennies or Origin awards where there's a slate of nominees the judges vote on. The judges just spotlight what they think were the notable superhero RPG product(s) from the last 12 months according to their own tastes. Sort of like the judge's spotlight awards for the Ennies

3) The only true voting/judging is the Gamer's Choice award.  Every superhero RPG product from the last year is eligible and the winner is decided by popular vote in an open poll on the blog.

Quote from: mikelaff;1005035It's cool - I asked those guys and they had never heard of you either



Nope. Not really. I'll break it down for you:

1) We invite a panel of RPG industry folks to serve as judges by spotlighting their favorite superhero RPG product from the last year.

2) It's not like the Ennies or Origin awards where there's a slate of nominees the judges vote on. The judges just spotlight what they think were the notable superhero RPG product(s) from the last 12 months according to their own tastes. Sort of like the judge's spotlight awards for the Ennies

3) The only true voting/judging is the Gamer's Choice award.  Every superhero RPG product from the last year is eligible and the winner is decided by popular vote in an open poll on the blog.

Mayhap  you can post the results here.

Yes, do post the results here.

It can't be more unethical or screwed up than the ENnies.

and - the 2017 BAMFSIES Poll for best superhero RPG release of the last year is now live.

Check it out - make your voice heard.

Poll ends in early Feb - I'll post results here shortly afterwards (along with the Judges' spotlight awards_

Where is the actual poll?

Quote from: RPGPundit;1021698Where is the actual poll?

Hey.
It's at the link in the first message. It's a polldaddy.com poll embedded on the blog.

Link: http://bamfsies.blogspot.com/2018/01/2017-bamfsies-gamers-choice-poll-for.html?_sm_au_=iVVHRZTstfRTFrQN

If you'd rather hit the poll on the polldaddy site directly - here's that link as well: http://poll.fm/5wmyf

Thanks!

I would not have guessed there were so many (82) Superhero RPG products in just one year.

Quote from: mikelaff;1021769Hey.
It's at the link in the first message. It's a polldaddy.com poll embedded on the blog.

Link: http://bamfsies.blogspot.com/2018/01/2017-bamfsies-gamers-choice-poll-for.html?_sm_au_=iVVHRZTstfRTFrQN

If you'd rather hit the poll on the polldaddy site directly - here's that link as well: http://poll.fm/5wmyf

Thanks!

For some reason, on the blog itself the poll is NOT showing up. All I see is the title, and that's it.
Thought you'd want to know.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1022215For some reason, on the blog itself the poll is NOT showing up. All I see is the title, and that's it.
Thought you'd want to know.

Odd. Can I ask what browser and device you're on? I've experimented with the stuff I have at hand - and I haven't had a problem yet. But that doesn't mean there's not a problem. Just that I'm not seeing it.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1022215For some reason, on the blog itself the poll is NOT showing up. All I see is the title, and that's it.
Thought you'd want to know.

It's not showing for me either. Might it have something to do with Adblock Plus?