You don’t pick the first, you pick 13 and hope to get the most points by the end of the year. If one of your picks is the first (Opening Kickoff Award), or the last (Final Hours Award), or a couple of other criteria you get an extra award. Adams was not the first 2026, he was the third. The first ones were Erich von Däniken and Bob Weir, both died three days before Adams.