Joe, you have to be nominated before it closes first off
second they take the sites with the most nomintaions and those go thru for judging. judges are not divulged until the judging has been finished and judges are not allowed to judge in a category they are nominated for.
other than that i dont know fuck all about it, only found we got a nomination 2 days after they closed and seeing as we never get nominated for stuff like this lol i checked into it a bit to see how it was that we squeezed in.