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It's the problem when you have public voting on these, the ones more people know about are the ones that rise up. If it's panel selected then it's (almost always) rigged by whoever is giving the award to show off their game instead of the actual good one.
I mean look at the Steam awards, Liars Bar won "Most Innovative Gameplay". Liars Bar, the game that is literally bluffing cards and dice, a game that has been around for literal centuries, "most innovative"