*Examining Bias

[Memento Mori]

I agree with you on the whole team rep piece of the awards committee - it actively promotes bias. ideally there'd be 5+ people who are fully plugged into what's going on league wide making those decisions, and if there aren't that many of those people then there's another conversation to be had about the awards process top to bottom, and the committee in particular.

that being said, the GM's job and the award rep's job are fundamentally different and fundamentally separate. it's not like Laser is being asked to go fight to get OCO guys on the ballot and then turn around and be an impartial judge of their performance. that's the whole reason GM's aren't on the committee. if a GM is incapable of separating the voting process from a process that doesn't even involve them then they shouldn't even be voting in the first place because that'd be ridiculous.

the award system might be flawed, but I refuse to accept the argument that GMs can't be expected to be unbiased voters as a separate act from the committee process that they're excluded from entirely.

Are no GMs allowed on the committee? The committee members aren’t made public but some GMs have implied that they’re on the committee in the past so I assumed that they were. If they’re not allowed then yeah, I’d agree.