...the question becomes: does he want the event to be his playground, or his legacy? Because it can't be both, and now that it's such an opulent, shiny-status Thing To Attend, he's treating it as the former at the expense of the latter, and thus of the Hugos themselves.
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Alternately, he could take his ball and go home, leaving worldcon to fill the void with an event and budget of their own design; because frankly, an awards ceremony SHOULD have a party! But there would be no legacy in this for him; just an angry end.
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Or he could just... keep doing what he's doing, and worldcon can keep letting him: having the singular event associated with the awards run by someone who isn't part of the con every single year, so that the concom can only shrug apologetically whenever there's a cockup.
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I appreciate the love GRRM has for the Hugos as an institution, but the institution is not the same as the people who comprise it, who appear on the ballots each year, and when his parties and nostalgic speechifying alienate those people... who or what is he serving, really?
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If GRRM and worldcon want the Hugos to both retain the legacy they already have while continuing to have a future, then the issue of how the ceremony is handled, who runs the parties and who is included in both will need to be dealt with sooner rather than later.
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minor correction - I somehow typed that GoT was in its first season in 2014 instead of its third. d'oh!
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When rich men don't do the sensible thing with their charitible giving, one has to wonder about their motivations for their seeming largesse. A trust is an excellent idea & would save him money on his taxes (and this whole thread is very well said).
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