OK, folks! The Ice(house) Game Design Competition judging SHOULD have concluded last night at midnight local (i.e. my) time. [FYI, the rules NOW read "noon" so I can handle it during the day, rather than on the following day.] Further, I am rather satisfied by the number of rankings that I have received (36!). However, I do not want our first competition in two years to suffer any claims of being "hurried" or any participants to feel they couldn't have a voice because they did not have enough time. In particular, a few folks mentioned that they could not get to all of them, for whatever reason, and had to submit incomplete rankings. In fact, *I* have not gotten to all of them and, therefore, won't submit a ranking at all (that's just how I roll, in spite of the fact that our scoring system doesn't penalize unranked games). Therefore, I am asking the Icehouse and the Rabbits list if anyone wants the judging to be extended by TWO WEEKS, to October 1st at noon. Please don't replay with "whatever others want" or with "I don't care"--only reply if you have a firm opinion FOR or AGAINST this extension. Me? The only negative I see is that the winner of the "Summer 2007" IGDC will be announced in the fall. Given that the submission and play MOSTLY will have occurred in summer, I can deal with this seeming disparity. But I could also see folks being anxious, say, to start providing feedback while it's fresh (and being unwilling to do so while judging is going on). I can also see an argument against extension based on the time we will need to design, submit, and judge for Winter (i.e. every delay now pushes back its dates, to an extent). So I will leave it to y'all: IF you care, reply with a YES or a NO to extending to October 1st. Ideally, also provide a reason FOR or AGAINST doing so, as that might help those on the fence decide. I will run this poll for exactly TWO days (so, basically, we get a two day extension for free). And folks, remember the "amendment sub-rule" of rule #5 on the wiki: if you submit a new ranking, I will DELETE your old one; thus, you can adjust or update your ranking repeatedly. Just be sure that you use the same e-mail, or else I have to manually associate by name (whereas Gmail does that for me, with grouping by sender). I will require a simple majority: even one vote more for or against will decide it. You have until 2pm Eastern Time on Thursday the 20th to reply to either list (not to me, please!). Thanks, all; David