--- title: "Gaming awards and industry recognition directory" url: https://internationalgamingawards.com/ description: "A subject directory covering how award categories, judging criteria, industry sectors and regional circuits across the gaming trade are organised and described." --- # Gaming awards and industry recognition directory A subject index of how recognition programmes across the gaming trade are organised, judged and described. - [Award Categories](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/) (6)How recognition slates are divided, and what each division normally covers. - [Judging and Criteria](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/) (6)Criteria documents, panel composition, scoring scales and verification steps. - [Industry Sectors](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/) (6)Sector groupings used to organise entries across the wider gaming trade. - [Regions and Circuits](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/) (4)How regional circuits are commonly delimited and why the boundaries move. 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[Award Categories](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/) (6) - [Operator divisions](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/#operator-divisions) - [Supplier and platform divisions](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/#supplier-and-platform-divisions) - [Product and title divisions](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/#product-and-title-divisions) - [Individual recognition](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/#individual-recognition) - [Compliance and player-protection divisions](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/#compliance-and-player-protection-divisions) - [Special and discretionary divisions](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/#special-and-discretionary-divisions) - [Judging and Criteria](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/) (6) - [Criteria publication](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/#criteria-publication) - [Panel composition](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/#panel-composition) - [Scoring scales](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/#scoring-scales) - [Conflict-of-interest handling](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/#conflict-of-interest-handling) - [Evidence verification](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/#evidence-verification) - [Result confidentiality](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/#result-confidentiality) - [Industry Sectors](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/) (6) - [Land-based venues](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/#land-based-venues) - [Online operators](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/#online-operators) - [Platform and content suppliers](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/#platform-and-content-suppliers) - [Payments and compliance services](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/#payments-and-compliance-services) - [Affiliates and trade media](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/#affiliates-and-trade-media) - [Esports and skill formats](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/#esports-and-skill-formats) - [Regions and Circuits](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/) (4) - [European circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#european-circuit) - [North American circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#north-american-circuit) - [Asia-Pacific circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#asia-pacific-circuit) - [Latin American circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#latin-american-circuit) - [Terminology and Process](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/) (15) - [Category slate](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/#category-slate) - [Ceremony cycle](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/#ceremony-cycle) - [Criteria document](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/#criteria-document) - [Discretionary division](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/#discretionary-division) - [Eligibility window](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/#eligibility-window) - [Embargo](https://internationalgamingawards.com/glossary/#embargo) ## Selected entries from the index - [Operator divisions](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/award-categories/#operator-divisions)Award CategoriesDivisions covering businesses that run gaming activity directly, and how they are usually split. - [Evidence verification](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/judging-and-criteria/#evidence-verification)Judging and CriteriaThe stage at which claims made in a submission are checked before a shortlist is settled. - [Entry and submission process](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/entry-and-submission-process/)Resource recordThe ordinary sequence of an award cycle, from slate publication through to announcement. - [Platform and content suppliers](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/industry-sectors/#platform-and-content-suppliers)Industry SectorsStudios and platform vendors supplying titles, engines and integration layers to operators. - [European circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#european-circuit)Regions and CircuitsA dense set of separately licensed markets, and what that does to the shape of a slate. ## By region - [European circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#european-circuit) - [North American circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#north-american-circuit) - [Asia-Pacific circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#asia-pacific-circuit) - [Latin American circuit](https://internationalgamingawards.com/categories/regions/#latin-american-circuit) ## Record of note [**Judging panel structures**](https://internationalgamingawards.com/records/judging-panel-structures/) **Branch**: Judging and Criteria **Record**: records/judging-panel-structures **Scope**: Common ways a jury is composed, balanced and rotated **Format**: Reference record with sectioned notes