The BBC has denied fans the chance to campaign for their favourite sports star by concealing the shortlist for Sport Personality of the Year until tonight's live show.
For the first time in its 65-year history, names of athletes in the running for the prize won't be made public in advance.
Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said it will add another level of excitement to the awards show, which sees 12,000 paying spectators gather at the Genting Arena in Birmingham.
Gabby Logan, Gary Lineker and Clare Balding will present the 65th Sports Personality show
She added that the change meant stars from the most popular sport don't always scoop the prize.
But critics say it denies fans the chance to co-ordinate voting campaigns for their favourites.
Boxer Tyson Fury's chances could be harmed by the alteration. He's one of this year's favourites after coming back from the brink of suicide to fighting a thrilling contest against US heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.
Chances of winning for Tyson Fury (left after his heavyweight bout against Deontay Wilder) could be hampered following the change
But a string of sexist and homophobic comments in 2015 damaged his public image.
Without knowing whether Fury is on the shortlist, his fans have been unable to co-ordinate a campaign to win the public back over.
The new change could also see lesser-known sports stars miss out on the opportunity to win the gong.
Last year the relatively unknown Superbike World champion Jonathan Rea finished runner-up for the award after his fans lobbied for him online.
Slater told The Times: 'If you are going to put a vote out to the public, you run that in the most robust way you can.
Harry Kane is the favourite to take home this year's award after captaining England to a World Cup semi-final
'It can simply be there are more fans of one sport than another or somebody plays for a club with a big fanbase.
'But the vote on the night is something very dear to the show. It's an opportunity for the British public to vote and that won't change.'
Favourites to win the award this year include England captain Harry Kane, whose goals help take the country to the semi-final of the World Cup; Dina Asher-Smith, the female sprinter who won gold at this year's Commonwealth Games; Geraint Thomas, the first Welshman to win the Tour de France; and Lizzy Yarnold, skeleton racer and Winter Olympian.
Sports Personality of the Year tonight, BBC1, from 7pm Thomas should leave rivals in his slipstream, Sport, Page 16.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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