2014 Winter Awards: Official Nominees and User Voting

[AceTrainer14]

Hello everyone!

After a week of voting, we have narrowed down the fifty or so nominees to craft a slightly smaller but equally grand list! Firstly, thank you to everyone who voted and helped get all this work on to the next round. It is great to see so many people taking part and helping celebrate the work of their peers.

Without any further ado, here is the official nominees list!

Journey
The Long Walk by @Beth Pavell
Unpredictable by @AetherX
But Thou Must! by @VTP-Dawkins93
Vaira: The Legacy of Cyrus by @Rediamond
How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps by @AceTrainer14

Dark
Survival Project by @diamondpearl876
Galactic by AceTrainer14
Poison Touch v2.0 by @Life

Expansion
Dawn of Darkness by AceTrainer14
Deep Space by @yugoslavia

Non-Pokémon
Origin: The Rising by @Barfing Ogres
{some of its hearts} by @kintsugi

Alternate
Vivillon Writes Poems by @Vivillon
Storm Island by @Caitlin and @Andrea Prescott
Pokemon Academy Year II: Second Year Rhapsody by @Flaze
Communication by @Sike Saner
Hard Reset by Rediamond

Protagonist
Joshua Cook from The Long Walk
Evelina Joy from The Long Walk
Scar from {some of its hearts}
Andrea Dennison from Storm Island
Viktor Fischer from Dawn of Darkness
Cynthia Carter from Dawn of Darkness
Kelli from The Legend of Zelda: The Ancient Power by @Kelleo

Antagonist
Kevin Samuels from Pokemon Academy Year II: Second Year
Gideon from How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps
Arnold Adiem from Dawn of Darkness
Reese Walker from Unpredictable

Supporting
Evyrus from Vaira: The Legacy of Cyrus by Rediamond
Miko from Pokemon Academy Year II: Second Year Rhapsody
Senori from Survival Project
Criss from Unpredictable
Charlotte from Dawn of Darkness
Sandy Samson from How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps

Pokémon
Screwball from The Long Walk
Paige the Pidgeotto from How to Conquer Kanto in Eight Easy Steps
Solonn the Snorunt from Communication
Square from Poison Touch
Kephi from Love and Other Nightmares by diamondpearl876
Geoffry from A New Life - For Better or Worse by @The Roach


Congratulations to everyone whose work has moved on! It is all well deserved and I look forward to judging some new categories and new pieces of work! The judging round begins in a few days while we sort out the assignment of categories and such, but with the inclusion of several new members, we are all looking forward to the next month of reading.

While we judges get to work, the rest of you can take part by voting in the User Voted categories! These three awards celebrate the users directly and reward them for their work around the Fairground and Written Word. Over the next few weeks, you can vote for one user from each category, and whoever has the most votes in the end wins!
Your nominees are:
Best Reviewer: @Beth Pavell @Rediamond @Flaze @AetherX
Best Newcomer: @Airt @VTP-Dawkins93 @Sike Saner @FullMoon
Best Contributor to the Written Word: @LightningTopaz @AceTrainer14 @Rediamond @Beth Pavell @Andrea Prescott
I will let you know after Christmas when voting on this will close. You can change your vote at any time as I will not count them up until the competition closes.

Good luck to everyone nominated, and will see you in the New Year with the winners!

(BTW, doing mentions takes ages. They really need a button for this -_-)

 

[AceTrainer14]

All of those people who have moved on, you now have the option to submit your recommend chapters. For those not in the know, these chapters help the judges with reading the longer stories on offer. The judges will read the first few and most recent chapters, but they cannot possibly read every chapter as they are volunteers, so your chapter submissions will help make it easier for us to read your work. In order to submit, simply PM me the links to your chosen chapters

- Please submit no more than four chapters if these chapters are of a reasonable length, and no more than two if your chapters exceed over 20,000 words (use your own common sense here, but you will not win any favours with the judges if you submit four overly long chapters. Just be smart about it, submit what your feel is necessary.)

- You do not need to submit any chapters if your story is a one shot, consists only one chapter or has a small amount of chapters of a reasonable length (for example, would not need any due to its length).

- You do not need to submit your first chapter/prologue or your latest/last chapter as judges should read these. Unlike last time though I will not chase you up over them so you will ned to use your own merits and decide on the other stories.

- Please message these to me within the next three days, even if the chapters are the same as last time. Chapters not in within three days will risk judging beginning and being done without them.

- If you have characters only, can you please point out if there are any chapters without the character as well?

A point of advice for choosing your chapters: find the ones that best convey the things that make your story shine. If you excel at plot, character or style the most, try your best to highlight those areas with the work you select. Try your best to find the chapters that will make the judges want to read more, to learn more about your story and why it deserves an award. It may seem a given, but you will be surprised by what some people submit.

Please note that this time, if you do not submit recommend chapters and win your category, your story cannot be taken into consideration for Best Story. We had difficulty with this last time when one story did not have recommended chapters, making it hard for the judges outside of that category to make a call. It is easier for a small group judging just one category to read over another story, but asking a dozen or so people to read one story in a few days is asking far too much.

 

[Persephone]

Best Reviewer: Beth Pavell
Best Newcomer: FullMoon
Best Written Word Contributor: LightningTopaz

 

[FullMoon]

Best Reviewer: Beth Pavell

Best Newcomer: Airt

Best Written Word Contributor: LightningTopaz

I don't think I can really vote for best newcomer since I'm one myself so I'll just leave that for you guys =P

 

[AceTrainer14]

Best Reviewer: Beth Pavell

Best Written Word Contributor: LightningTopaz

I don't think I can really vote for best newcomer since I'm one myself so I'll just leave that for you guys =P

You can vote for Best Newcomer, just not yourself, obviously.

 

[BlitzTrain]

Best Newcomer: FullMoon

Best Written Word Contributor: AceTrainer14

I haven't actually READ any reviews (and barely of the fics), so I'll skip that part. Feels kinda weird trying to vote for anything since I'm still getting used to the site and people here =)

 

[Arkadelphiak]

Best Reviewer: Rediamond


Best Newcomer: Sike Saner


Best Contributor to the Written Word: LightningTopaz

 

[GoneGuy]

Time to vote

Best Reviewer: Beth Pavell

Best Newcomer: VTP - Dawkins93

Best Written Word Contributor: LightningTopaz

 

[Vivillon]

Best Reviewer - Rediamond

Best Newcomer - FullMoon

Best Written Word Contributor: Beth Pavell

 

[AceTrainer14]

Now that I have sorted out the banners, it is probably time we wrap this part of the Awards up. So I will set the end date for Monday at about 9M my time, meaning that you have three days and nine hours to get your votes in!

 

[Beth Pavell]

Reviewer - AetherX

Newcomer - Sike Saner

Contributor - Lightning Topaz

 

[diamondpearl876]

Best Reviewer: @Flaze - is reliably prompt and gets to most everyone's fics, also offers a good balance of negative+positive criticism
Best Newcomer: @Sike Saner - if she posted more, that'd be great (she's hilarious)
Best Contributor to the Written Word: @AceTrainer14 - he pretty much sets everything up, so why not

 

[chaos_Leader]

Newcomer: Fullmoon
Reviewer: Rediamond
Contributor: Beth Pavel

 

[Life]

I don't know how much this will change things but here are my votes.

Best Reviewer: AetherX
Best Newcomer: Sike Sanner
Best Contributor: I don't pay enough attention here so I'll leave it to the more informed.

 

[FullMoon]

So... What happens when there's a draw?

 

[AetherX]

Best Reviewer - Rediamond

Best Newcomer - Airt

Best Written Word Contributor - Beth Pavell

 

[AceTrainer14]

It is closed now. Thanks for those that did vote.