The delivery of the prizes is decided through a professional jury and the players themselves, although the proportions are different.
Who determines the winners of The Game Awards 2019? How are the candidates chosen to fight to become the best game of the year? There are many questions about the voting system, a system that has been questioned by some users, since Death Stranding, the project of Hideo Kojima, is one of the titles with more nominations. The friendship between the creative and Geoff Keighley, organizer, has not gone unnoticed, but the master of ceremonies does not participate in the selection of the nominees or in the voting of the winners.
Once the categories have been established, the organization asks the jury, composed of numerous international media, to issue their verdict. Among all the media professionals (FreeGameTips included), the players, creatives, actors and personalities of the electronic sports are selected to form the list of nominees. Once announced, you have to vote, but how?
Voting method: thus the winners are chosen
On the afternoon of December 12 (night of December 13 in Spain), one of the six candidates for GOTY will be crowned with laurels. However, it is worth asking how the winners are established. The answer is found on the website of The Game Awards 2019, where all aspects of voting are explained. Thus, both the professional jury and the players take part in the vote, but their votes are not worth the same.
"The winners are determined by a distributed vote that involves a jury (90%) and a fan audience (10%)." Followers can cast their votes through the event's website and through Google Search. They can do it once every 24 hours. In certain categories, there is also the option to vote by private message from Twitter or Discord. At this time, the voting has already been closed.
Some may wonder why winners are not 100% chosen by users. The organization explains that that would pose many challenges, since some games are exclusive to a specific platform, which would be unfair, according to The Game Awards. In addition, they emphasize that the risk of a kind of social engineering would occur. Therefore, they believe that the most fair thing is to distribute the votes in the way in which it is currently done.
