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Golden Joystick Ceremony Follows Public Voting

The audience vote and awards show happen at different times.

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Source: Future Events; PC Gamer, 2026-11-09.

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In this lesson: Separate completed public voting from the later broadcast.

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Read and understand · 1/2Where is the ceremony scheduled?

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Troxy in London. The opening paragraph gives London’s Troxy.

Clue: Organiser Future lists the Golden Joystick Awards for November 11 at London’s Troxy. Alix Wilton Regan is scheduled to host.

Read and understand · 2/2Which stage was complete at the time of the report?

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Public voting. The second paragraph says voting has closed and the ceremony will reveal the winners later.

Clue: Public voting has closed. The ceremony is set to reveal the winners later today, with a broadcast beginning at 18:00 GMT according to PC Gamer.

Grammar in this story: A planned reveal

is set to reveal

Is set to describes a scheduled future action, rather than an announcement already made.

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Put the voting and broadcast in order.

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Public voting closed before the ceremony. The broadcast is scheduled to begin at 18:00 GMT, with the winners to be revealed later that day.

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