We seriously considered a fursuit category when the awards were first established. The crucial problem, then and now, is that fursuits are seen at one or at the most two conventions a year. The awards are supposed to be for items that everyone in Furry fandom, throughout the world, can see to vote on. There are already too many practical exceptions to this. Movies or books may be published or released in one country and not another, although the international availability of DVDs and books through Amazon has made most of these available almost everywhere. But how do you make a fursuit "seeable" throughout the world for every voter's consideration? Maybe in the future some technological advance can overcome this limitation, and make a fursuit category a practical possibility.
We seriously considered a fursuit category when the awards were first established. The crucial problem, then and now, is that fursuits are seen at one or at the most two conventions a year. The awards are supposed to be for items that everyone in Furry fandom, throughout the world, can see to vote on. There are already too many practical exceptions to this. Movies or books may be published or released in one country and not another, although the international availability of DVDs and books through Amazon has made most of these available almost everywhere. But how do you make a fursuit "seeable" throughout the world for every voter's consideration? Maybe in the future some technological advance can overcome this limitation, and make a fursuit category a practical possibility.
Fred Patten