The Game Awards vote: how fans and the jury share the result, and the dates on record
Fans vote for The Game Awards on the official website, and fans in China vote through Bilibili; anyone who signs up can vote in all 29 categories. The blended vote gives the jury 90 percent and fans 10 percent, and the Players' Voice award is decided entirely by fans. The published close, Wednesday, December 9 at 6 pm PT, carries no year.
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Online routes: the official website, Bilibili in China and no others on record
Fans vote for their favorite games on The Game Awards website, and fans in China vote on the winners through Bilibili. Those are the two routes named in the texts read.
The Game Awards vote link is the official website's voting page, and this page prints no web address for it. That page carries a heading inviting people to see and vote on the 2025 nominees, and the nominees page includes a My vote card section.
No app, text or mobile route is named for the main fan vote, and neither is any route inside a video game such as Fortnite. Only the website and Bilibili are on record.
When fan voting starts and closes, and the year the dates lack
The dated line on fan voting reads: fan voting closes on Wednesday, December 9 at 6 pm PT. That is the Game Awards voting deadline in the texts read, and the line carries no year.
The Game Awards voting close is a clock time with a zone, 6 pm PT, on a named weekday. The texts read attach it to no year, and the voting page is headed for the 2025 nominees, so this page does not call the window open or closed.
Fan voting starts when the nominees are announced and voting opens on the website. The start date of any cycle is therefore the nominee announcement, which the organiser publishes itself, and the wording used here gives no such date.
Today, September 30, 2026, no start or end date for this year's cycle is on record here.
How the vote works: jury 90 percent, fans 10 percent
Winners are determined by a blended vote between the voting jury, at 90 percent, and public fan voting, at 10 percent. In a blended category, fans carry a tenth of the result and the jury carries the rest.
The voting jury is a group of over 100 leading media and influencer outlets across the globe, and it also picks the nominations. The Game Awards voting jury list is not part of the texts read, so no outlet is named here.
One category works differently: the Players' Voice award is entirely decided by fan votes. There the jury has no share, and the fan vote is the whole result.
So the vote is fan-based in one category and blended, at 10 percent fans, where the blend applies.
Players' Voice: three rounds, three chances, 30 nominees down to one
Players' Voice runs in three rounds, and the text calls them three chances to vote. Round 1 opens Dec 1 with 30 nominees, and a voter picks 10. Round 2 opens Dec 4 with 10 nominees and a vote for 5. Round 3 opens Dec 8 with 5 nominees and a vote for 1.
Each round cuts the field, from 30 nominees to 10, then 5, then one. The dates carry no year in the text read, so the year question that applies to the December 9 close applies to them too.
The rounds are dated only by opening day: Dec 1, Dec 4 and Dec 8, with no clock time and no year, while the fan-voting close alone carries a weekday and a clock time in Pacific Time. When each round closes is not stated.
The award is decided entirely by fan votes, so the three rounds are the whole mechanism. The sentences read do not describe how the 10 and the 5 are chosen from the round before.
Sign-up and age: anyone who signs up, and one under-18 caveat
Anyone who signs up can vote in all 29 award categories, including Game of the Year. No country list and no age line is attached to that sentence.
The only age wording in the texts read sits in the site's privacy text: its service does not address anyone under the age of 18. That sentence is not written as a voting rule, and this page does not treat it as one.
A voter in China votes through Bilibili, and the sign-up sentence names no country it excludes.
The My vote card section on the nominees page
The nominees page includes a section headed My vote card, and the page invites people to see and vote on the 2025 nominees. The Game Awards vote card is named in the page's own headings, and the texts read do not describe what it does.
The wording used here does not say whether the card saves, confirms or limits a vote, so this page claims none of those; the nominees page itself is where to read what the card shows.
Penalties and fake votes: the texts read describe none
The texts read for this page describe no penalty, review step or disqualification procedure for a vote, and no check for fake votes. Whether The Game Awards flags a fake vote at all, and how one is detected, is unstated.
What the texts do state is structural: a sign-up, a 10 percent fan share of the blended vote and three Players' Voice rounds. A vote outside those structures is outside anything the texts describe, and The Game Awards alone decides what follows.
Headcounts: the jury is over 100 outlets, the fans are not counted
The only headcount on record is the jury's: over 100 leading media and influencer outlets across the globe. The texts read carry no count of the fans who vote, and none is estimated here.
How many times a voter can vote is answered only for the Players' Voice award: three rounds, three chances. For the other categories the sentences read state no cap, and this page supplies none.
The numbers that do appear describe structure, not turnout: 29 categories, 30 nominees narrowing to 10, 5 and 1, a jury of over 100 outlets and a 10 percent fan share.
What the texts leave to the organiser: five items to confirm
Five items are left to The Game Awards itself, and its voting page and nominee announcement are where each one is confirmed.
Each item marks a gap in the texts, not a guess about how the gap closes; no forecast of any window or result is offered here.
- Which year the December dates belong to: the close on Wednesday, December 9 and the Players' Voice rounds carry none.
- The start of fan voting for this year's cycle, which is tied to the nominee announcement.
- Whether any route beyond the website and Bilibili exists, including an app or a game.
- How the 10 and the 5 are chosen between Players' Voice rounds.
- What The Game Awards does with a vote that breaks a rule.
| Voice | Who votes | Weight | What it decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voting jury | Over 100 leading media and influencer outlets | 90 percent of the blended winner vote | Nominations and 90 percent of a blended result |
| Public fans | Anyone who signs up; Bilibili in China | 10 percent of the blended winner vote | Their share of a blended result |
| Players' Voice award | Fans, over three rounds | The whole result | One category, decided entirely by fans |
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The official website, or Bilibili in China
Fans vote for their favorite games on The Game Awards website, and fans in China vote on the winners through Bilibili. Those are the two routes named.
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A sign-up that opens all 29 categories
Anyone who signs up can vote in all 29 award categories, including Game of the Year. The site's privacy text says its service does not address anyone under 18, and it is not written as a voting rule.
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Fan voting starts with the nominee announcement
Fan voting starts when the nominees are announced and voting opens on the website. The nominees page is headed for the 2025 nominees and includes a My vote card section.
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Players' Voice: three rounds, three chances
Round 1 opens Dec 1 with 30 nominees and a vote for 10, Round 2 opens Dec 4 with 10 nominees and a vote for 5, and Round 3 opens Dec 8 with 5 nominees and a vote for 1.
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A close at 6 pm PT with no year
One text says fan voting closes on Wednesday, December 9 at 6 pm PT. No year is attached, so the organiser's voting page is where the current cycle's close is confirmed.
Fast answers
How to vote for The Game Awards?
Fans vote for their favorite games on The Game Awards website, and fans in China vote on the winners through Bilibili. Anyone who signs up can vote in all 29 award categories, including Game of the Year. The Players' Voice award adds three rounds, opening Dec 1, Dec 4 and Dec 8 in the text read.
When does The Game Awards voting open and close?
Fan voting starts when the nominees are announced and voting opens on the website, and one text gives the close as Wednesday, December 9 at 6 pm PT. That line names no year, so this page does not call the window open or closed. The organiser's voting page is where each cycle's dates are confirmed.
How many times can you vote in the Game Awards?
The texts read give a count only for the Players' Voice award: three rounds, described as three chances to vote. Round 1 asks for a vote on 10 of 30 nominees, Round 2 on 5 of 10 and Round 3 on 1 of 5. For the other categories the texts state no cap, and this page supplies none.
How many people vote in the Game Awards?
The texts read carry no count of the fans who vote, and none is estimated here. The only headcount on record is the jury's: over 100 leading media and influencer outlets across the globe. Fans carry 10 percent of the blended vote and the jury 90 percent.
Is The Game Awards vote based on fan votes?
The Game Awards vote is a blend: winners are determined by the voting jury at 90 percent and public fan voting at 10 percent. One category, the Players' Voice award, is decided entirely by fan votes. The jury is over 100 leading media and influencer outlets across the globe.
Is The Game Awards voting down?
The texts read carry no status notice, so they cannot say whether the voting page is down at a given moment. The organiser's own voting page is the place to check, and this page reports no outage.
What happens if a Game Awards vote breaks the rules?
The texts read describe no penalty, review step or disqualification procedure for a vote that breaks a rule, and no check for fake votes. What they do state is structural: sign-up, a 10 percent fan share and three Players' Voice rounds. The Game Awards alone decides what follows a vote outside those structures.
References
- thegameawards.com. thegameawards.com/faq.
- thegameawards.com. thegameawards.com/faq.
- gamespot.com. gamespot.com/articles/quick-reminder-you-can-vote-in-the-game-awards-now/1100-6536609/.
- thegameawards.com. thegameawards.com/voting-jury.
- polygon.com. polygon.com/explained/492637/how-the-game-awards-voting-works.
No purchase in a contest like this one can lift the fan vote above its 10 percent share of a blended result, and none can change the jury's 90 percent. In the Players' Voice award the organiser's rounds decide the outcome, and nothing on this page predicts a winner or a window.
Each organiser's own terms decide which votes are valid, and an organiser can void votes or disqualify an entry. ITV's Love Island terms limit each registered mobile number to one vote per voting event and rule out any method the terms do not state. America's Got Talent asks voters to register and accept its official voting rules, with a cap of ten votes per act, per voting method, per voting window. The American Music Awards decided each winner by the total of valid votes in the category.
Organisers write an ordinary voter down in numbers. The American Music Awards allowed up to 30 votes per award per day on each voting platform, the NASCAR All-Star Race fan vote allowed five a day per unique email address, and the iHeartRadio Music Awards allowed 50 a day per category. A crowd of separate voters stays inside limits like these and arrives day by day, with busier days when an organiser opens a boost. This describes how organisers count; it is not a way around a check.
We give no legal advice and cite no statute: the terms that bind a fan vote are the organiser's own, and they fix who may vote. Dancing with the Stars online voters must be at least 18 and in the United States, its territories or Canada; Love Island USA voting is open to US residents aged 18 or older, or with parental permission. We refuse member-only ballots such as the ACM Awards, categories an organiser decides itself, as MTV did with Best Video, and any vote for public office.
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The part of a request that is not delivered before the organiser's voting closes is refunded. A result, a disqualification and a voided vote are never refunded, because the organiser decides all three. Nor is a vote's worth inside the format covered: the MLB All-Star ballot did not carry Phase 1 totals into Phase 2, and at The Game Awards fan voting is one tenth of the vote that decides winners.