Awards

Awards are the largest unit in the Awards system. They represent a family of awards given out, possibly annually or over some other time interval. An example would be the "Golden Geek Awards". Awards are not tied to particular domains, and an award might have honorees under it from BGG, RPGG, etc. Award-level creation is reserved for Admins only.

Award Set

An Awards Set (anyone have a better name?) is essentially a group of honors handed out all at about the same time. For example, the 2009 Golden Geek Awards is an award set.

An Award Set should have one Award linked to it, so it is necessary to create an Award before creating an award set. The name of the Award Set should contain the name of the Award.

Award Category

An Award Category is a category of honors for a given Award. For example, "Golden Geek Best Family Game" is an awards category. Note that the name of the Category should contain the name of the Award, and, like an Award Set, the Award must be created first.

Award Position

An Award Position is not tied to an Award. It is a generic position, such as "Winner" or "Nominee". Creation of new positions should be strictly limited, which probably means you shouldn't be creating these if you aren't Dan Karp or Scott Reed. Anything that is similar to winner ("first prize", "grand prize", etc, should just be linked to Winner. This is because the awards modules can be filtered on position, and all positions will appear in this pull-down, regardless of whether there are any honors with that position to be seen. Award positions also ask for a position index--this is not yet implemented, but the idea is that the lower the Position index, the higher it will appear in a sorted list. Having seen the awards in action, with the module filtering, I'm not convinced that it will be necessary to implement the sorting.

Honor

An Honor is the smallest unit of the Awards system. Unlike the other item types, honors are linked to specific domains. So if you are creating an honor for something on BGG, you create a Board Game Honor.

An honor is made up of links to ONE Award Set, ONE Award Category, ONE Award position, ONE Award Position, and ONE OR MORE geekitems (usually games, but can also be people or companies, depending on the domain). The name of the Honor should contain all information about the Category, Set, and Position. An example of an honor is: "2009 Golden Geek Best Family Game Winner". A separate honor would be: "2009 Golden Geek Best Family Game Nominee". The target should be only the primary winner or winners of the award--if the winner is "Agricola", the Agricola gets the honor, not its designer or publisher, for example. The only time a person or company gets an honor is for awards such as "Designer of the Year". (italics part is still in policy flux).

Award winners should also be represented on the list of Nominees, if relevant; thus, most award winners will be listed as XXX Award Nominee and XXX Award Winner.