Voting FAQ

Voting will occur in 2 stages.
For this award season, community members and projects being nominated must be active or have taken place from

March 1, 2025 - February 28, 2026

Submissions/Nominations Open:

May 1st - 31st

Final Voting:

July 1st - 31st

Awards Ceremony:

September 26th, 7:00pm MST

Primary voting will go live on May 1st and close on May 31st, 2026..

This is where the community nominates themselves and their peers for the awards categories that have been announced.

After primary voting closes, the board will validate the nominations, disqualifying any ineligible nominations.

Secondary voting will go live on July 1st and will close on July 31st.

The community will be allowed to vote for nominees that have accepted their nominations.

Submission Period: This is where creators will be able to submit their own work in the various categories they are interested in. This is also where the community can nominate peers for the three community nominated categories - a change from previous years.

Verification Stage: Our verification team, made up of various members who specialize in different areas of the TTRPG community, review all submissions and nominations using a rubric and comparison system, as well as verifying they meet all criteria.

Voting Period: The community will be allowed to vote for finalists in all categories that have accepted their nominations.

All voting will be closed by July 31st, and the awards will be unveiled at the awards show.

A version of the awards show will be livestreamed.

For nominations, Discord handles are not a valid social media.

Who is eligible to be nominated?

Submissions/nominations are open to the whole of the TTRPG community, with some restrictions.

Each award category has a thorough description detailing the criteria for qualification and ineligibilities.

There are two separate nomination types: self-submission and community nominated.

Please carefully read instructions on each of the submission forms before submitting.

Our board members and projects run primarily by our board members are ineligible for nomination.

Members of our staff are eligible for group awards with stipulations:

A production with a majority of CRIT Award staff is NOT eligible for Actual Play categories.

Our sponsors CAN be eligible for nomination, even if they are donating to, or sponsoring, the event (Dice Makers, Artists, etc)!

As we are a community-based event with the overarching goal to highlight and uplift our community members, creators and independent businesses who are providing awards to the show may still do so for categories they themselves are NOT nominated in

Verified finalists will be informed via email BEFORE the voting goes live on July 1st.

If a nominee does NOT confirm their intention to accept their nomination, we will assume it has been declined.

If a finalist decides to pull their nomination AFTER they have accepted, they may do so up to July 31st, the closing date of the voting round.

After voting closes, we will be unable to accommodate any updates to the finalists before announcing winners.

If a finalist has declined in a previous year, they ARE still eligible for nominations in future years.

Also, while we love our large-scale and union productions like Dimension 20 or Critical Role,

we ask that you prioritize your peers and community members in your nominations.

Such productions are not eligible for selection of the awards and are noted as such in the descriptions of each award category.

Nominations utilizing generative AI or Large Language Models (LLMs) in any capacity are not eligible for consideration.

Critical Chaos Entertainment and the CRIT Awards reserve the right to:

Amend guidelines, selection criteria, nominations, finalists, and activities if necessary and as they see fit.

The CRIT Awards operates under Critical Chaos Entertainment, LLC.