The Dragon Awards · 4:45pm Sep 5th, 2016
In case you missed it, yesterday the winners of the Dragon Awards were announced and awarded.
What are the Dragon Awards? They’re a set of awards given out by Dragon Con, a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Gaming con with over 70,000+ attendees—a pretty significant number compared to other cons out there. Still not heard of them? That’s fair. After all, this was their first year.
Yes, up until now Dragon Con has never had an award. But seeing the absolute meltdown going on over at the Hugo Awards over the last few years (where a tiny, frankly dying con has entrenched itself into the SJW blogsphere in an effort to save itself, insulting a rejecting anyone who didn't agree with their narrative and taking steps to make sure only the “proper” people were involved, voting, and nominated), and hearing the cry from that same group of “Don’t like it? Go find a different award!” Dragon Con stepped up.
The result? An award that can both take nominations for and be voted on by anyone—anyone—with an e-mail address and an interest in the subject matter. For a con that is attended by over 70,000 people annually. Compared to the Hugo’s paltry attendance (most years below 5,000, actually) and rules and regulations that restrict voters to those who can pay a fee (and now, with recent changes, follow more stringent requirements), Dragon Con seems like a breath of fresh air.
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That's pretty cool.
This stuff from the Hugos people is so silly and childish. It's the sort of thing you'd expect to find in a parody. Kinda like that infamous Chick tract Dark Dungeons. (The movie made to mock Dark Dungeons, by the way, did so by playing things entirely straight.)
Neat. Only problem I see is publicity being a significant factor in votes, possibly over quality. Because ye gods, quality and popularity unfortunately too often do not correlate.