This year, the xyzzy voting was divided into two stages. The first stage being a nomination period and the second stage being a final voting period. I, for one, wanted to know whether or not people were really going to make that extra effort to play those nominated games that they hadn't already played, and whether all the nominated games were really getting played fairly equally.
Caveats There are many.
First let me say that this poll cannot be taken as scientific. The sample could not be considered a random one . I have at hand 22 responses to the survey, including my own. Further, there was potential for undersampling stemming from the fact that respondents had to deal with a very long list of games, sometimes with semi-mangled names. During e-mails back and forth between respondents, I seem to have dropped Rock and a Hard Place off my list a couple of times, accidentally.