I think it worth noting that Twilight Struggle also won this year’s IGA for best Historical Simulation, making it the first game to win two IGAs in the same year.

Congratulations to Jason Matthews, Ananda Gupta, and GMT Games.

Yes, two very worthy winners.  Another great job by the IGA committee.

I think Jason and Vonda are building a bookcase to hold all the awards Twilight Stuggle has won!  Congratulations (again) guys!

Are there the details of the votes available somewhere ? I usually enjoy reading them ...

Here are the full details, Olivier, as provided by the Grand Tabulator of the IGA’s, Stuart Dagger:

2-PLAYER SECTION
14 people voted, of whom 10 voted for Twilight Struggle. The other 4 votes in the 2-player section went 2 to War of the Ring: Battles of the Third Age and 1 each to Blokus Duo and Pünct.

MULTI-PLAYER SECTION
18 people voted and the initial count of first preferences was as follows:
6 Caylus
4 Jenseits von Theben
2 Indonesia, Railroad Tycoon, Thurn und Taxis
1 Blue Moon City, Das Ende des Triumvirats

We changed the elimination tiebreaker this year to one that looks at how games fared in the nominations stage of the voting. There Das Ende des Triumvirats did better than Blue Moon City and so the latter was the first to go. Its vote switched to Indonesia. Das Ende des Triumvirats went next, with its vote switching to Jenseits von Theben. The numbers now are therefore

6 Caylus
5 Jenseits von Theben
3 Indonesia
2 Railroad Tycoon, Thurn und Taxis

Thurn und Taxis was better supported at the nominations stage than Railroad Tycoon. Railroad Tycoon is eliminated. One of its votes goes to Jenseits von Theben and the other to Thurn und
Taxis, which thus joins Indonesia on 3. Thurn und Taxis also did better than Indonesia at the nominations stage, and so it again survives. The votes released by Indonesia go 2 to Caylus and 1 to Jenseits von Theben to give this position:

8 Caylus
7 Jenseits von Theben
3 Thurn und Taxis

At this stage anyone familiar with the Law of Natural Cussedness can spot what is about to happen next. The elimination of Thurn und Taxis sent 2 votes to Jenseits von Theben and 1 to Caylus to leave them tied on 9 apiece. Fortunately we do have a procedure in place and it gives the win to Caylus because it had more first preferences.

Caylus would also have won in the photograph had we looked at either “points for places” or “best supported at the nominations stage”. So, although the winning margin was what is known in horse racing circles as “the shortest of short heads”, there is no controversy about it. It was just very, very close.