I'm going to have to agree fully with Chaotix Bluix in response to the Likes suggestions. In previous years we had a five star rating system, and it unfortunately didn't make things fairer - instead we had people down rating their competition. This was the first year we strayed from that, and the amount of likes each game had worked far better than the popular games having 5 star ratings and all the rest having 2-3's. A game with say, 8 likes, doesn't imply that it's a bad game, just that people haven't "liked" it all that much. And the point of likes isn't to give quality indication, where as a rating scale is, and can skew games negatively unfairly.

Also, bear in mind that the likes themselves really weren't that important towards judging. They were mainly in place for someone to easily show they liked a game, and the top liked game of each category only received one extra point.

I do agree that reviews this year were a bit skewed though, perhaps averaging the review results would work better next year.

One thing I personally would like to see next year would be a wider range of awards in addition to the "Best Of" ones. Quite a few people look at the awards and instantly assume that the objective of NCFC is to win - when it's not. The awards aren't meant to be a critical part of the convention, but the fact we only have one kind of award doesn't help this.