I think taking this as a reliable source of info is a mistake, as it was probably all designed around how much TV time they had and worked backwards from there.

I think taking this as a reliable source of info is a mistake, as it was probably all designed around how much TV time they had and worked backwards from there. There's no transparency around how finalists were picked. Hopefully, anyone really interested in the history of videogame classification will take this TV show with a grain of salt and weigh it less compared to something like EGM, Game Informer or even how the publishers describe it. Although, this is free on youtube and it might take some legwork to track down the more reliable primary sources, so I dunno... No matter what the subject, distinguishing the reliability of sources is one thing that separates blogspam from real research though.