Of our nine remaining contestants, I have played 2 of them. I can probably play the remaining 7 by the 16th. I am hoping to hold a pyramid party to try them out, but it all depends on the tight schedule of my fellow playtester(s). I like the idea of splitting the award into two categories, Heavy and Light Games. This mirrors the way the Origins Awards are given to different types of games. But I am wary that we'd divide our already small pool of participation into two efforts. I disagree with awarding first, second, and third place. First alone is good enough. I have no preference on award title or trophy design. I will not be attending Origins. ----Ryan -----Original Message----- From: "Bryan Stout" [stoutwb@xxxxxxxxx] Date: 06/09/2010 11:06 AM To: "Icehouse Discussion List" <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Icehouse] Designers, help us shrink the "best of 2009" list OK, Origins starts 2 weeks from now, so we need to get this list whittled down. I have edited the page http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=New_in_2009 to show games already eliminated: by the designers' preference to their preferred game, or by being 2010 designs, or for being provisional yeses in the first pass. This leaves us with 9 games. We'll apparently need to pick one of the games from Robert Dudley for him. I find them both intriguing, but I prefer Stack Control to Infiltrate. Do you agree, Scott, or anyone else who has played them both? This would leave us with 8 games. I really don't want to have just 2 of us picking the finalists. Just as in the first pass, the judges don't have to play every game, but hopefully they can play at least 4, or 3 as a minimum, so they can offer preferences between games. Ryan, Eric, how much are you able to help with this last group? And is there anyone else who would be willing to evaluate 4 or more games in the next few days? Bryan _______________________________________________ Icehouse mailing list Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse