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Award Categories

A category slate is the published list of divisions a recognition programme will judge in a given cycle. Slates are rebuilt regularly because the trade itself keeps changing shape, and a division that made sense when a sector was young is often folded into a broader heading once the field grows crowded. The entries below describe the divisions that recur most often, in general terms, and explain what kind of submission each one usually expects.

Entries in this branch (6)

• Operator divisions

  Divisions covering businesses that run gaming activity directly, usually split by channel and by the scale of the operation rather than by turnover.

• Supplier and platform divisions

  Divisions for the firms that build and licence the underlying systems, including content studios, aggregation layers and back-office tooling.

• Product and title divisions

  Divisions judged on a single released product rather than on the business behind it, which changes the shape of the evidence a submission has to carry.

• Individual recognition

  Divisions that recognise a role rather than a company, normally with a nomination route separate from the standard entry route.

• Compliance and player-protection divisions

  Divisions covering safer-play tooling, verification systems and regulatory reporting, judged mainly on documented process.

• Special and discretionary divisions

  Divisions held outside the open entry process and decided by the programme itself, often with no published shortlist stage.