User blog comment:Herald of meridian/Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi 2014 Ranking Results Revealed!/@comment-1430834-20131120123240

Lemon Ice and Silent Psycho Gamer: I think the "Best of 10 Years" is the category for the greatest light novel series of the ten years passed, from 2004-2014 (or 2003-2013), with the year determined by release date of the novel's first volume.

Yeah, it's a bit unfair for those series who have long ended.