I'll just address a few more points before I move on to my regular buesiness.

(11-17-2012, 02:11 PM)Emperor Wrote: This, quite frankly, is insulting. Let's look at the runnerups. Metroid Remix and PMU. Neither are Mario games. PMU has the most likes in the entire convention. Last year's overall awards were given to Project AM2R and Megaman Battle Network Chrono X. Neither are Mario games. Please don't say there's a bias in the judging because you disagree with the decisions when looking further will reveal there isn't.

On the note of Metroid Remix, and the Metroid category in general this year: This year we had difficulties streaming both Metroid Remix and Metroid Dread. I also feel as though Father Hunt deserved more attention for it's original sprites and music, and for running smoothly compared to the other two games. With these in mind, I don't believe Metroid Remix deserved the spot it got. This brings into mind a different issue though involving the Metroid categories; I'm not entirely sure what's up with it, so for now I'll best describe it as similar to a seniority award thing. While I wasn't around pre-2011, it was apparent that AM2R was popular and hyped (among the Mario fangamers, even) long before my entrance, and AM2R would surely have won again this year if it was around, but since it wasn't, the award instead went to it's competitor from last year, in spite of everything I've said about Father Hunt, or people's reception of Metroid Dread (Which may have been marred by people alleging stolen content from AM2R, unfortunately).

Perhaps my low-spec CPU and my Livestream experiences really mess with my perspective, but I can't really understand it, myself. Maybe it helps Metroid Remix that it is featured on the webpage of Metroid Headquarters, a site with affiliation to MFGG, while Father Hunt appears to have come from nowhere. It makes me believe that a Metrod game's chances of getting an award tie in more to how well-known it is with the MFGG community than to it's own merits. Unfortunately, thinking in that mindset it's hard for me to think the Metroid picks really "count" for anything,

As for Chrono X, I suppose I'll give you that one, but funny you mention it, because I remember feeling last year that PMU got snuffed in favor of that one even though I thought Chrono X felt too early alpha-ish for me to consider it as such. If it was here this year, would it have beaten PMU again? Perhaps I'm seeing it too much on a "whole" when others are "year by year", but it seems like PMU got runner-up this year more by being persistent than anything else, when I felt it deserved a spot last year and then would've made way for another game this year (Since while it's as good as ever, it doesn't actually seem to be dramatically different code or feature-wise from last year besides the new beginner tutorial, while in comparison, Immortal Sword's got a newer, more optimized engine).

I will say that I wouldn't say something I didn't believe, and I tend to be stubborn about it, so I'll probably just think how I do going into next year. I didn't mean to sound insulting, as blunt as I may be otherwise (Not to sound cliche or fake, but blame Aspergers); I just feel like these are things we need to think about before deciding on whether to continue the award show or do something else for the finale next year.

BTW, be sure to give me a really good heads-up if more things are moved into being done via the Livestream next year, award show or no.