I already explained my theory for the decrease in voter turn out. It's not really because Europeans were given the cold shoulder (as you mention, that was occuring long before this year and there was no major complaining about that element or movement that would cause such a large decrease).
Mainly Kyell Gold took his works off the nominees because he had felt he had won enough and wanted to give others a chance. Though he did ask for his fans to still participate, it HAD been awhile since he announced (if all those who enjoy his works read his desire at all, seeings as just because you read a man's books doesn't mean you read his blog.) That is a major change, enough of one to cause a mass movement. As I said, the numbers will show if that's the case, he had 311 vote #1 for him last year. Clearly while the Kyell Gold could be a factor, it doesn't seem like it can be the only one.
So lets look to 2011's other features. It was an exceptional year and highly competitive. I mean look at the list of movies an no one could debate that none of those deserved to be there, look at the list of video games; same deal. This year? Hardly even close. We have "Brave" and things like "Skyrim Dawngaurd" to pad out the fact that it was a seemingly dry year.
Here's the thing though, if you really want to rock the boat understand that only 1,113 even voted this time... so if you know like 200 Eurofurs who really want to push their stuff you should be able to get a nomination easily. Heck you could do a hostile takeover of the awards from Americans if you got the troops together. I mean, we're too lazy to get out and vote for Dust and have the foresight to wait until 2013 to nominate Skyrim: Legendary Edition, so why not at this point?
I already explained my theory for the decrease in voter turn out. It's not really because Europeans were given the cold shoulder (as you mention, that was occuring long before this year and there was no major complaining about that element or movement that would cause such a large decrease).
Mainly Kyell Gold took his works off the nominees because he had felt he had won enough and wanted to give others a chance. Though he did ask for his fans to still participate, it HAD been awhile since he announced (if all those who enjoy his works read his desire at all, seeings as just because you read a man's books doesn't mean you read his blog.) That is a major change, enough of one to cause a mass movement. As I said, the numbers will show if that's the case, he had 311 vote #1 for him last year. Clearly while the Kyell Gold could be a factor, it doesn't seem like it can be the only one.
So lets look to 2011's other features. It was an exceptional year and highly competitive. I mean look at the list of movies an no one could debate that none of those deserved to be there, look at the list of video games; same deal. This year? Hardly even close. We have "Brave" and things like "Skyrim Dawngaurd" to pad out the fact that it was a seemingly dry year.
Here's the thing though, if you really want to rock the boat understand that only 1,113 even voted this time... so if you know like 200 Eurofurs who really want to push their stuff you should be able to get a nomination easily. Heck you could do a hostile takeover of the awards from Americans if you got the troops together. I mean, we're too lazy to get out and vote for Dust and have the foresight to wait until 2013 to nominate Skyrim: Legendary Edition, so why not at this point?