Announcing
the
Gaming Genius Awards!

Nomination period is now open!

New awards breaking ground and highlighting achievements across the hobby game industry

  (MONTREAL)—The International Gamers Guild (IGG) is pleased to announce the Gaming Genius Awards (GGAs, also called "The Golden Pawns"). The awards mark an innovation in the hobby game industry by covering every aspect of the industry, including independent products and fan achievements.

  The Gaming Genius Awards recognize genius in every aspect of the hobby game industry, in a way that reflects expert opinion and not market consensus. The best-known awards in the hobby game industry awards currently are popularity contests whose results are frequently leveraged by manufacturers who are best able to mobilize the vote. Other awards are recognized in the industry as established institutions. The Gaming Genius Awards, although new, are intended to be in line with how awards outside the hobby game industry are given out and thus, representing the industry as a whole.

  The Golden Pawns awards ceremony will be held this August at FanExpo 2011.

  The Gaming Genius Awards are divided into Pro Awards and Fan Awards. The Pro Awards are for commercial products. They also recognize achievements in writing, artwork, game design, and commentary. These are voted upon by a panel of industry experts that are to be selected by the GGA Central Committee. The Fan Awards are for achievements by individual, rank-and-file enthusiasts of the game hobby. These are voted upon by members of the general public.

  The many categories of Gaming Genius Awards cover roleplaying games, miniatures, wargames, board games, card games, LARPs, play-by-mail, and conventions in the Pro category. The Fan category recognizes genius in gamemastering, costume design, miniatures painting, organizing local conventions, and blogging.

  The use of industry experts rather than general fan voting in all categories was the standard in the industry before changes were made to the best-known awards in the industry in the last decade. However, the Gaming Genius Awards judges will still need to be accountable to the fans, through regular feedback on the forums on the GGA web page.

  Get involved!

  The GGA Central Committee is now accepting applications for judges, who will having voting rights in the Golden Pawn Pro categories. Contact information is at the bottom of this announcement for everyone who is interested OR go to the Gaming Genius Awards website (www.thegoldenpawns.org).

Nominate your products and your achievements!

  All manufacturers, designers, and freelancers may nominate their own products. The procedure requires sending an e-mail to the Central Committee announcing this,including a written introduction to the product or achievement. Please note that no physically printed copies of any products are required for this. PDFs, software, and other electronic products are on the same playing field as so-called “real” books. Products need not be in general retail distribution to be eligible, either.

About The International Gamers Guild

  The International Gamers Guild (IGG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering participants in roleplaying games, miniatures, wargames, board games, LARPs, and related hobbies to promote such hobbies in the wider community and to increase their opportunities to enjoy the hobby as well. The Central Committee of the Gaming Genius Awards are an anonymous group of directors from the International Gamers Guild.

To Find Out More or To Participate

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The Gaming Genius Awards are located at www.thegoldenpawns.org.

We invite you to check them out.

The awards ceremony will be held this coming August in Toronto at FanExpo 2011.

Our volunteer webmaster has now vacated her position with our non-profit and we wish her well with her future endeavors in San Antonio TX.

The Gamers Guild
welcomes Peter Sanz as its new director

  This post has lain vacant for several months since the departure of Ms.Lucy Cortes and it is with great enthusiasm that we bestow the directorship upon him. His policy of streamlining, cleaning up, and renewing the guild as a whole is welcomed, we have full trust in him and think he is a great choice. Now he must live up to the position, volunteer or not. Long live the King!

The Montreal Gamers Guild
is now seeking a director

  Anyone interested (must be local to Montreal); can put their name into be considered for the position. Just send an email to our webmaster at Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla

The Guild Website

  Thanks to a generous increase in our budget, we are undertaking a renovation and expansion of our web-presence over the next two weeks. The Gamers Guild, the International Gamers Guild, and the Montreal Gamers Guild website will be redone and separate sections for each legal entity will be created. For now bear with us as our webmaster redoes the whole site. To this end we have disabled all sub-menus and the forums are minimal at present, until the renovation is completed. The Gaming Genius Awards however IS NOT affected NOR is their website which is now open and ready for nominations.