I assume we're talking about the Spike TV Awards show (since I don't even know of any others). Not sure if you guys knew, but you can actually vote for them here: BEST FIGHTING GAME | Spike Video Game Awards 2009 | SPIKE

Some categories just reek of picking the ones they know will be popular. I won't argue that L4D2 deserves to be up for game of the year, but it also came out the day before voting started which is utterly stupid. And some categories are just plain stupid on their own like best soundtrack and the best human performances. If it weren't for the fact that best original score was there and that best voice included the voice talent that actually deserve an award it'd be a complete joke. And actually, on a side note, how are Claudia Black and Nolan North not included in the best human performance categories? They provided the voice and motion capture for their characters, oh wait, I forgot, they're not big name celebrities.

Still, as much as some categories are utter rubbish and pander to the games with the biggest marketing budgets, there are still quite a few jems in there that you wouldn't expect to get a nod. When I started going through the categories I definitely didn't expect to see BlazBlue under best fighting game or Demon's Souls under best RPG. So I guess they are making decent strides in the right direction.