Diana Jones Award

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The Diana Jones Award is an annual award for "excellence in gaming". The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, but can be awarded to a person, product, publication, company, organization, event or trend - anything related to gaming; second, it does not count popularity or commercial success as a sign of "excellence".

Nominees are circulated during the year to the committee, which is mostly anonymous but which is known to include Peter Adkison, Matt Forbeck, John Kovalic and James Wallis. The committee releases a shortlist of three to seven nominees in spring, and the award is presented to the winner at Gen Con in Indianapolis in August.

The Diana Jones trophy was created in the UK offices of TSR in the mid 1980s to commemorate the ending of their license to publish the Indiana Jones roleplaying game. The trophy itself is a perspex pyramind containing the burnt remains of the last unsold copy of the game - all that is legible of the title is "diana Jones". The trophy was liberated by the Diana Jones committee, and the award was first presented in 2001.

[edit] 2006 winner

Irish Game Convention Charity Auctions. In 2005 Gaelcon’s auction made €31,000 (US$40,000) — approximately US$80 per attendee—and the smaller Warpcon raised €12,000 (US$15,000), making its parent society the biggest charity fundraiser at University College Cork.[1]