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Greetings Workshop; Come one, come all, witness the grand spectacle that is our first batch of Awards for the year – the Spring Awards 2014!
It is Awards season in Hollywood right now, with all the little golden men, golden faces and golden balls on staffs being handed out all around the world to all the actresses and actors from the past year. While our Awards may not get 15 million viewers and star studded celebrity guests, we are still going to celebrate all the works published and updated over the past three months, all for another amazing banner and a prestigious spot in our Hall of Fame!
Of course, in order for there to be an Awards ceremony, we need to have some nominees, so let’s kick this mother off with the Nomination Process! You shall have a week (February 9th NZT) to message AceTrainer14 with your nominations, which MUST include a link to the work.
Also, due to requests, I will now allow anyone to nominate another persons character or story; however, you still can only nominate one story/character per category and only three stories/characters maximum. This is because we do not want people to simply nominate stories they will then just vote for.
For other mildly stern faced rules and a list of what categories you can nominate in and , please read the spoiler below, preferably whilst humming elevator music to yourself as I did whilst writing this.
Once the nominations are in place, we will have the Voting Round which will determine the works that make it into the Judging Round. Whatever you do, PLEASE do not let the thought of this scare you off submitting your work; the voter’s mind is an unpredictable thing, so your story and/or characters could just the right number to let them move on! We only have the voting round cause our lovely judges do have this thing called ‘a life’ (well, some of them do. I personally spend all on the computer thinking of insults for my fictional characters to snap at each other – such fun!), so most of them do not have the time to read every fic that is submitted and we need some help to decide which ones are truly worthy on moving on.
So get nominating and lets make this one of the best Awards yet
Follow us on twitter ( @bulbawriters ) for more regular updates on the process!
Also, if anyone wants to be a Judge, please PM Ace ASAP as we are down a few this round and can always do with an extra pair of hands!
It is Awards season in Hollywood right now, with all the little golden men, golden faces and golden balls on staffs being handed out all around the world to all the actresses and actors from the past year. While our Awards may not get 15 million viewers and star studded celebrity guests, we are still going to celebrate all the works published and updated over the past three months, all for another amazing banner and a prestigious spot in our Hall of Fame!
Of course, in order for there to be an Awards ceremony, we need to have some nominees, so let’s kick this mother off with the Nomination Process! You shall have a week (February 9th NZT) to message AceTrainer14 with your nominations, which MUST include a link to the work.
Also, due to requests, I will now allow anyone to nominate another persons character or story; however, you still can only nominate one story/character per category and only three stories/characters maximum. This is because we do not want people to simply nominate stories they will then just vote for.
For other mildly stern faced rules and a list of what categories you can nominate in and , please read the spoiler below, preferably whilst humming elevator music to yourself as I did whilst writing this.
The categories:
-Best Journey Fic (for stories that follow a gym or contest storyline or something of a similar theme)
-Best Dark Fic (for stories that have dark themes/a dark or mature storylines at the core of the story)
-Best Crossover/Non Pokemon Fic (for stories that cross over Pokemon with another franchise or a story that is either from a different fandom or is completely original)
-Best Expansion (for stories that expand on canon characters and concepts)
-Best Alternate (for all stories that don’t go anywhere else – IE )
-Best Protagonist (the lead of your story)
-Best Antagonist (the villain of your story)
-Best Supporting Character (any other character in your story)
-Best Pokemon Character (for Pokemon characters that have been written exceptionally well. Pokemon that speak human/English are allowed here.)
The rules:
- You may have two nominations per category, but there is a limit of four nominations for the story categories and seven nominations for the character categories. To reiterate, if you are nominating someone elses work, you can nominate three stories and three characters and only one per category. If you are nominating your own work, you can still nominate other peoples but put it underneath your nominations.
- A link to each story must be provided just for ease of checking your work. Your entry will be void if you do not submit a link and I will not be reminding you.
- Fics that have been updated since October 8th NZ Time are eligible for these Awards. Work updated during this nomination week is allowed but any chapters posted after the Voting Thread is up will not be counted.
- Do not try and slip your stories/characters into other categories in order to get them in (ie if you have three Journey fics and you try to get one of them nominated under Alternate). If we catch you out the story will be made void and it may hamper for your Awards chances.
- Do not ask people to nominate your work, as there is no point since you can just do it yourself.
-Best Journey Fic (for stories that follow a gym or contest storyline or something of a similar theme)
-Best Dark Fic (for stories that have dark themes/a dark or mature storylines at the core of the story)
-Best Crossover/Non Pokemon Fic (for stories that cross over Pokemon with another franchise or a story that is either from a different fandom or is completely original)
-Best Expansion (for stories that expand on canon characters and concepts)
-Best Alternate (for all stories that don’t go anywhere else – IE )
-Best Protagonist (the lead of your story)
-Best Antagonist (the villain of your story)
-Best Supporting Character (any other character in your story)
-Best Pokemon Character (for Pokemon characters that have been written exceptionally well. Pokemon that speak human/English are allowed here.)
The rules:
- You may have two nominations per category, but there is a limit of four nominations for the story categories and seven nominations for the character categories. To reiterate, if you are nominating someone elses work, you can nominate three stories and three characters and only one per category. If you are nominating your own work, you can still nominate other peoples but put it underneath your nominations.
- A link to each story must be provided just for ease of checking your work. Your entry will be void if you do not submit a link and I will not be reminding you.
- Fics that have been updated since October 8th NZ Time are eligible for these Awards. Work updated during this nomination week is allowed but any chapters posted after the Voting Thread is up will not be counted.
- Do not try and slip your stories/characters into other categories in order to get them in (ie if you have three Journey fics and you try to get one of them nominated under Alternate). If we catch you out the story will be made void and it may hamper for your Awards chances.
- Do not ask people to nominate your work, as there is no point since you can just do it yourself.
Once the nominations are in place, we will have the Voting Round which will determine the works that make it into the Judging Round. Whatever you do, PLEASE do not let the thought of this scare you off submitting your work; the voter’s mind is an unpredictable thing, so your story and/or characters could just the right number to let them move on! We only have the voting round cause our lovely judges do have this thing called ‘a life’ (well, some of them do. I personally spend all on the computer thinking of insults for my fictional characters to snap at each other – such fun!), so most of them do not have the time to read every fic that is submitted and we need some help to decide which ones are truly worthy on moving on.
So get nominating and lets make this one of the best Awards yet
Follow us on twitter ( @bulbawriters ) for more regular updates on the process! Also, if anyone wants to be a Judge, please PM Ace ASAP as we are down a few this round and can always do with an extra pair of hands!
