The Strategy Gaming Society has announced the finalists for the 2001 Gamers' Choice Awards, a set of awards which recognizes outstanding strategy board games in three categories.

Eligible games are those released during calendar year 2001. The winners will be announced on June 1, 2001. This complete list of this year's nominees (including Title—Designer—Company, includes:

General Strategy Games, Multi-Player

Capitol—Alan Moon&Aaron Weissblum—Schmidt
Die Händler von Genua —Rudiger Dorn—Alea/Rio Grande
Evo—Philippe Keyaerts—Euro Games
Funkenschlag—Friedemann Friese—3F
Kanaloa—Guenter Cornett—Bambus Spiele Verlag
Liberté—Martin Wallace—Warfrog
Medina—Steffan Dorra—Hans im Glück/Rio Grande
Müll + Money—Jurgen Strohm— Hans im Glück/Rio Grande
Pampas Railroads—Martin Wallace—Winsome Games
San Marco—Alan Moon&Aaron Weissblum—Ravensburger/Rio Grande
Volldampf—Martin Wallace—TM Spiele
Wyatt Earp—Richard Borg/Mike Fitzgerald—Alea/Rio Grande

General Strategy Games, Two-Player

Dvonn—Kris Burm—Don & Co/RioGrande
Flower Power—Angelika Fassauer&Peter Haluszka—Kosmos
Kupferkessel Co.—Gunther Burkhardt—Goldsieber
Sternenschiff Catan—Klaus Teuber—Kosmos/Mayfair Toscana—Niek Neuwahl—Piatnik/Rio Grande

Historical Simulation Games

Barbarossa: Army Group North—Vance Von Bories—GMT
Boer War—Joseph Miranda—S&T 205
Clash of Giants—Ted Raicer—GMT
Fallschirmjaeger—The Gamers
Grant Takes Command—Ed Beach—MMP
Highway to the Kremlin—Kevin Zucker—OSG
Red Badge of Courage—Richard Berg—GMT
Thirty Years War—David Fox&Michael Carter—GMT Wilderness War—Volko Ruhnke—GMT
Zero—Dan Verssen—GMT

Two separate committees of knowledgeable and respected members of the gaming hobby will choose the winners. The judges hail from several different countries, giving a broad perspective to the Gamers' Choice Awards. Particular emphasis was given in selecting individuals who are already active in the reviewing of games and have their finger on the pulse of the gaming hobby.

Serving on the General Strategy Games committee are:

Herb Levy: United States; Founder of the Gamers Alliance
Mike Siggins: Great Britain; Review Editor of G3 magazine; Reviewer for Counter magazine and The Games Cabinet website
Stuart Dagger: Great Britain; Editor of Counter Magazine
Alan How: Great Britain; Contributing Editor of Counter Magazine
Andreas Keirat: Germany; Experienced game reviewer for Luding
Greg Aleknevicus: Canada; Experienced game reviewer
Steffan O'Sullivan: United States; Experienced game reviewer
Ronald Hoekstra: Netherlands; Editor of Spelmagazijn games international website
Ben Baldanza: United States; Experienced game reviewer
Peter Sarrett: United States; Editor of The Game Report magazine
Mike Clifford: Great Britain; Contributing Editor, Counter Magazine
Frank Branham: United States; Editor of The Games Dumpster
Greg Schloesser: United States; Editor of The Westbank Gamers
Doug Adams: Australia; Editor of the Billabong Gamers
Frank Kulkmann: Germany; Editor of Kulkmann's Gamebox

Serving on the Historical Simulation Games committee are:

Alan Poulter: Great Britain; Editor of Web-Grognards website
Eric Pass: Canada; Experienced Reviewer and Designer
Jim Werbaneth: United States; Editor of Line of Departure
Walt O'Hara: United States; Experienced Game Reviewer and Designer
Dr. Peter Perla: United States; Contributing Editor of Fire and Movement
Danny Holte: United States; Experienced Game Reviewer
Allan Rothberg: United States; Experienced Game Reviewer
Elias Nordling: Sweden; Experienced Game Reviewer

For a detailed look at Committee members, see the SGS website: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/~sgs The Gamers' Choice Awards page can be found here: pages.about.com/strategygames/wizze.html