History: Last year the Jurors were selected by the CAEAA. Full-time teachers of Video Gaming and Animation selected the four final nominees per category from all of the Video Game and Animation Company submissions; Heads of Departments from the Video Game and Animation Companies selected the final four nominees per category from all of the Student submissions. The final nominees in all categories were subsequently sent to media members around the world who acted as our final Judges, selecting our winners. The second step (judging) results were sent directly to Buckley Dodds as our official auditors and the winners list was not known by anyone but them until announced onstage.

Change: It has been brought to our attention that the industries would rather have their peers act as jurors to select the final nominees.

Challenges: How do we keep the nominations fair, given that the jurors selecting the final four nominees per category are from the very companies they’re selecting from? After much research and conversation with Heads of Judicial Process from other awards shows, the CAEAA Producers have decided on the following procedure:

All final nominations and subsequent winners of the International Categories for the 2007 Elans will be juried by their industry peers plus one media member per Category Panel from within Canada.

Please see “Official Judicial Process for the 2007 Elans” for complete details.

Qualifying year: July 1st, 2006 – December 31st, 2007

Submission deadline: December 21st, 2007

Nominee Announcement: Monday, January 21st, 2007