Actually, there's a fairly complicated mechanism in place to ensure that people get a random mix of games to try, and it's not a straight "BEST GAME" but a staggered point system. Unfortunately, there's no way to force every "judge" to play every game, but the system is designed to keep people from just downloading the games from authors they recognize.

I think what Bill is saying is that if the games were anonymous, then it'd be pretty easy for some unscrupulous type to put the game on his website and claim that he wrote it. That wouldn't be fair to the original author, who might have a time convincing everyone of the truth. If the name was in the game itself, it'd be harder to do that (though, granted, not impossible). I once had this problem with a "mod" contest I entered, though by "mod" I mean a music pro-tracker style module and not a game mod. Anyway, I had used some sound samples from another song and failed to change the names of these instruments, which were things like, "this tune composed by erick" (or the like). The mod musicians had learned to identify their works by changing instrument names to contain a message. Anyway, even though I just used the samples, and NOT the actual tune--a very common and accepted practice in the mod world--the guy hosting the contest was convinced I had stolen it and wouldn't let me enter the contest. The whole thing left a really sour taste in my mouth and destroyed our friendship.