Ok someone here please help me figure this one out as I’m completely baffled!

WWE’12 won Game of the Year for the Mashable Awards 2011. The only problem is that it was released on November 22, 2011 in North America and on November 25 in the United Kingdom.

The rules, taken directly from Mashable’s site:

Readers can nominate their favorite companies, people, sites and gadgets once a day for each category between Oct. 11 and Nov. 18. Mashable’s editors will select the seven finalists for each category. The final nominees will be announced on Nov. 21, at which time readers will vote for the winners.

Does anyone else see the problem? People nominated a game which was not even out in the publics hands. How can you nominate something for GOTY without ever playing it? Then the judges just blindly miss this huge discrepancy? Something smells extremely fishy.