Another option to me seemed to simply reduce the votes to 5 major ones.
4 main, 1 neutral (everyone else), and this way if the votes are low/high, the majority will compensate. However, I would say it should be a minimum of 3 votes for each, else it can't really be called a land vote. The total score would then be based upon the average.
We might want to change categories as well though...not sure if we want to keep the old ones 100%.
EDIT:
Okay, I finished writing my thoughts, so here the suggested changes:
Superior Orlator seems hard to determine for me, and ultimately based upon forum? I never was sure how this category was determined, but I think we might want to change that..how, not sure. Maybe just keep it.
Most influential- I suggest changing to most informed.
Influence seems very subjective, but it is really funny to notice how many people never get informed properly, or overlook things. Information is power or so one says. This is also not a very sure option, we might just keep it as it is.
Best quote- how are we going to determine this even, has anyone kept ANY? I think we will miss many nice ones if we hold it, and lack them amountwise. If not, keep it, I am however inclined to believe we will lack some.
Best Artist- sorry to all the artists out there, but namely I can think about a handful of artists. Will we even fill the requirements? I suggest we merge this with the best papers and create best improvements to display (rename to something better), because of the art and papers provided.
Best Spellcaster- to me, this always would be based upon Inner Magic. Since we somehow always were basing it off outer magic, fine, but...should we really reward it? (I'm saying this as someone who won it once, I never felt it was that great)