The list of previous winners here (http://efanzines.com/DocWeir/index.htm) seems to me to contain very few fanzine fans, at least as regards the last couple of decades. (It also shows that there were four years during the 1980s when it wasn't awarded, which suggests either that I'm misremembering the date of the Eastercon which refused to allow a ballot, or that other Eastercons took the same line as well, or that the number of ballots cast in those years was too low for there to have been a meaningful result. Or any other reason, really; the organisation of the Doc Weir Award has always been rather opaque, at least up until the time we ceased regulat convention attendance.)

I can't disagree with your assertion that in recent years the Award has gone to "good people", because I have nothing against which to contextualise it. But I think there could be a problem for the future if it comes to be perceived solely as a means of rewarding those who do work behind the scenes at conventions.