How do you feel about how the Autodesk award winners were decided?

[andrewk]

Peer voting is a nice thought, but... the way it was structured had two weaknesses.

First, teams were allowed to vote for their own entry- bad idea. That is the best way to invite bias into the competition. Also, all individual student members are eligible to vote. This sounds cool at first, but it sort of gives larger teams an unfair advantage doesn't it? Robert, you made some other legitimate points on this as well.

I love the way that the regional AVA was set up. Rather than determining a winner by vote, all entries were scored (a much more subjective way of identifying outstanding work). And participating teams were allowed one evaluation per entry... excluding their own. You still get peer input, but it's straight from your competitors. Now there's some healthy competition!

All in all, the result of this years competition was amazing! Great job to all Autodesk design teams, and especially to 1625 and 103 for their winning entries