Origins Award Changes -- Par-tay!

[Steve Long]

For those of you attending Origins, here's an announcement that may prove of interest:


We have taken a careful look at the Origins Awards Ceremony. Despite
recent attempts to make the awards more interesting and entertaining
(last year's 30th Anniversary show, in particular), Origins Awards
ceremonies have been very lightly attended. We have concluded from
this, and from the success of previous social events, that both gaming
fans and industry professionals would rather celebrate the awards in a
party-like atmosphere than sit down to a 2-hour ceremony.

As such, we've chosen to announce the Award Winners to the public on
Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. from the entrance of the Exhibit Hall,
where the nominated products will be on display. We've replaced the
Awards Ceremony with a celebratory Gala, scheduled from 9:00 PM to
12:00 AM Friday night in the Fusion Room on the Ballroom level of the
Crowne Plaza Hotel, across the skywalk from the Convention Center.
Origins Award statuettes ("Callies") will be distributed at the party
to those winners in attendance.

The party is free for the primary creators of nominated products and
Supporting members of the Academy, and $30 for others. Tickets for the
party may be purchased at the Special Services desk at Main
Registration.

[Blue]

Will there be a webcam so I can sit in my living room and toast along with the winners? ;)

[SuperPheemy]

For those of you attending Origins, here's an announcement that may prove of interest:

So, are they changing the nomination procedure to something less... insider?

[Steve Long]

Well, the nominations process was changed, but not necessarily to something less insider (however one chooses to define that term ;) ). But that's a whole other discussion for some other board. ;)