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CMV: The Game Awards 2020 were not rigged just because The Last of Us Part 2 took home many of the awards.

Before I start, let me make it clear that I don’t think TLOU2 necessarily deserved the awards it got. I think there could’ve been games more deserving of some of the awards. However, that doesn’t mean that I think The Game Awards 2020 was rigged. 
I saw an article and several videos where those that were unimpressed with Naughty Dog winning several of the Game of the Year awards because of The Last of Us 2 called it “rigged.” The general argument is that 10% of the votes to determine GOTY are from normal individuals, and the other 90% are from a jury. The claim is that the 90% are likely all game journalists, which all gave TLOU2 incredibly high scores. However, I don’t think that means that TGA “simps” for Naughty Dog or that it was rigged. 
Take the Game Awards 2016, for example. Overwatch won game of the year. This was against Naughty Dog’s incredible title Uncharted 4, which was an incredible game that arguably deserved the award more. Why wouldn’t the journalist jury of TGA stand up for Naughty Dog that year?
Another example is The Game Awards 2019, where Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice took home GOTY. Sekiro was very much criticized among gaming journalism due to its harsh difficulty. The game weeded out many of the casual gaming journalists. But even then, hardcore gamers found Sekiro to be too difficult at times. So why would have much of the jury at TGA 2019 have voted for Sekiro? 
There could have been things I overlooked, maybe flaws in my beliefs. Please, help me understand if you thing TGA was biased! I’m very open to having my mind changed on this topic.
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I think there’s a difference between the awards being “rigged” vs. the jury being “biased.” IMO the former is not true, but the latter is true of almost any industry awards show, including TGA. For example, you look at the results of the big awards for other types of art over the years, it becomes pretty apparent that the Grammy voters tend to like works by past-their-prime artists that most people don’t consider too relevant anymore, and the Oscar voters don’t like horror movies or most foreign films even when critics love them. The reason for those “biases” is that the taste of the people who get to vote on these awards isn’t necessarily going to be representative of music or movie fans as a whole, especially when the demographics of the voters vs. fans are different. 

I think there is probably a similar explanation for TLOU2 beating Hades or GOT. For some reason, Naughty Dog’s formula of maximizing production values and trying to show that games can beat Hollywood movies at their own game with cinematic cutscenes, etc. at the expense of everything else is just more compelling to whoever the “industry insiders” are that vote on these awards than it is to the average fan, which often leads to some results that don’t make sense from the average fan’s perspective and probably won’t hold up in retrospect. That’s just kind of the nature of the beast when it comes to industry awards shows.