Tech's Day Of Reckoning

Deciding the winners of the most prestigious awards in technology takes a crack team and a hearty free lunch. Here’s how it all went down...

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It’s nearly time for 2018’s T3 Awards. Next issue (with the event itself taking place on 27 September), we’ll crown the best gadgets of the year across a whopping 50 categories. That’s our biggest-ever list of gongs, reaching into more new areas of tech than ever before.

All these winners have to be chosen, of course, so we brought together a group of the sharpest minds in the world of technology journalism (and also some staff from T3) for a day of intense judging. There, we whittled our shortlists down from a group of nominees to a select few worthy winners.

Naturally, before the judging day could even begin, we needed to create those shortlists. In the weeks leading up to that morning, the