{"id":455,"date":"2016-04-11T13:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=455"},"modified":"2016-05-02T13:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:23:34","slug":"xyzzy-awards-2015-first-round-voting-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"XYZZY Awards 2015: first-round voting open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is open on the first round of the XYZZY Awards. You can go <a href=\"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/awards\/login.php\">here to login<\/a>, then <a href=\"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/awards\/vote.php\">here to vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First-round voting will be open for the remainder of April, closing one minute past midnight on May 1 (US-Pacific time).<\/p>\n<p>This year we&#8217;re adding an experiment to the first round: instead one nomination\u00a0each category, you can now make two. You don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to nominate two games, but you can&#8217;t vote for the same game twice.\u00a0The hope here is that this will lead to somewhat more balanced categories; the vote can be so spread out in the first round that there have often been many-way ties, leading to a second round where there are either way too many nominees, or way too few.<\/p>\n<p>A polite reminder if your game is nominated: you&#8217;re not allowed to vote for your own game, and canvassing for votes &#8211; which for purposes here I&#8217;m going to define as &#8216;any action which results in a large number of people showing up specifically to vote for a particular game or slate of games&#8217; &#8211; is strongly discouraged, and may result in votes being discarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting is open on the first round of the XYZZY Awards. You can go here to login, then here to vote. First-round voting will be open for the remainder of April, closing one minute past midnight on May 1 (US-Pacific time). This year we&#8217;re adding an experiment to the first round: instead one nomination\u00a0each category, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}