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So here's a couple of interesting historical notes about this year's winners.
Azul is only the seventh game to get more than 50% of the votes of the second place game. Here are the previous instances:
1998: Through the Desert over Elfenland (36-23)
2000: Princes of Florence over Carcassonne (41-26)
2002: Puerto Rico over Age of Steam (129-49)
2005: Caylus over Louis XIV (92-42)
2010: 7 Wonders over Innovation (54-27)
2013: Russian Railroads over Bora Bora (28-18)
2017: Azul over Heaven & Ale (21-13)
So not true dominance, as we saw with PR, Caylus, and 7 Wonders, each of which at least doubled the vote of the second place game, but still pretty impressive.
The other achievement is that Kiesling becomes the first designer to have games in the top 2 spots. When Knizia also got two MCA's in '98 and '99, his games finished first and third in both years. Interestingly, Alan Moon got the second place game each year. The games:
1998: Through the Desert; Elfenland; Samurai
1999: Ra; Union Pacific; Lost Cities
So it was the Reiner and Alan show for consecutive years! But Kiesling's achievement is truly impressive.
Larry