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Hello everyone!
It is that time of year again! When the snow falls in America, when Home and Away goes on a break in Australia, and when the Winter Awards begin to consume our lives for the next month!
To kick things off, as always, is the nomination period. For the next week, you can PM me and nominate the stories and characters you have created, as well as those conjured up by your fellow writers. We got a record seventy plus nominations last time, so it will be interesting to see how things go this time.
In the spoiler is a brief run down of the categories as well as the updated rules:
Please feel free to ask for any further clarifications
You have a week, so get cracking and get nominating! Also, we currently only have ten definite judges this time around. While I am awaiting clarification from some people, I am wondering if anyone out there would like to join us and help with the judging: the more judges means the sooner the winners are revealed.
Thank you and good luck to all!
It is that time of year again! When the snow falls in America, when Home and Away goes on a break in Australia, and when the Winter Awards begin to consume our lives for the next month!
To kick things off, as always, is the nomination period. For the next week, you can PM me and nominate the stories and characters you have created, as well as those conjured up by your fellow writers. We got a record seventy plus nominations last time, so it will be interesting to see how things go this time.
In the spoiler is a brief run down of the categories as well as the updated rules:
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 either cross over Pokemon with another franchise, is 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)
-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.)
For more detailed blurbs, turn your attention towards the Hall of Fame.
The rules:
- When nominating your own work, you can nominate two stories/characters per category, but there is a limit of four nominations for the story categories and seven nominations for the character categories. When you are nominating someone else's work, you can nominate three stories and three characters and only one per category – this is so people do not just nominate what they will then vote for. If you are nominating your own work, you can still nominate other peoples but put it underneath your nominations.
Here is a run down of what that means:
- 4 of your own stories, two per category (eg 1 Journey, 1 Dark, 2 Alternate)
- 7 of your own characters, two per category (eg 2 protags, 2 antag, 1 supporting, 2 Pokemon)
- 3 stories written by other people, one per category (eg 1 Journey, 1 Expansion, 1 Non Pokemon)
- 3 characters written by other people, one per category (eg, 1 Protag, 1 Supporting, 1 Pokemon)
You are allowed seventeen nominations in total.
- 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. Any entries which are not properly filled out will be ignored. To make my life easier, plus submit links in the format of thread name[/ URL], which is achieved by using the globe icon.
- Fics that have been published or updated since June 8th NZ Time are eligible for these Awards. For the first time, you can now update your work up until the end of the voting period for it to be counted during judging. Any chapter published once judging commences will not be taken into consideration. Any character you nominate should have appeared in a chapter that has been posted during this period.
- You may only nominate your stories in one category: ie, you can't submit 'Generic Journey Story # 247 ' in Best Journey and Best Expansion, only choose one. 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 entry will be made void. If your character/story has won previously in one category, you cannot submit it in another just to get an extra badge without providing a solid reason for why it would now be different, and the moderators would decide if its allowed.
- 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 either cross over Pokemon with another franchise, is 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)
-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.)
For more detailed blurbs, turn your attention towards the Hall of Fame.
The rules:
- When nominating your own work, you can nominate two stories/characters per category, but there is a limit of four nominations for the story categories and seven nominations for the character categories. When you are nominating someone else's work, you can nominate three stories and three characters and only one per category – this is so people do not just nominate what they will then vote for. If you are nominating your own work, you can still nominate other peoples but put it underneath your nominations.
Here is a run down of what that means:
- 4 of your own stories, two per category (eg 1 Journey, 1 Dark, 2 Alternate)
- 7 of your own characters, two per category (eg 2 protags, 2 antag, 1 supporting, 2 Pokemon)
- 3 stories written by other people, one per category (eg 1 Journey, 1 Expansion, 1 Non Pokemon)
- 3 characters written by other people, one per category (eg, 1 Protag, 1 Supporting, 1 Pokemon)
You are allowed seventeen nominations in total.
- 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. Any entries which are not properly filled out will be ignored. To make my life easier, plus submit links in the format of thread name[/ URL], which is achieved by using the globe icon.
- Fics that have been published or updated since June 8th NZ Time are eligible for these Awards. For the first time, you can now update your work up until the end of the voting period for it to be counted during judging. Any chapter published once judging commences will not be taken into consideration. Any character you nominate should have appeared in a chapter that has been posted during this period.
- You may only nominate your stories in one category: ie, you can't submit 'Generic Journey Story # 247 ' in Best Journey and Best Expansion, only choose one. 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 entry will be made void. If your character/story has won previously in one category, you cannot submit it in another just to get an extra badge without providing a solid reason for why it would now be different, and the moderators would decide if its allowed.
- Do not ask people to nominate your work, as there is no point since you can just do it yourself.
Please feel free to ask for any further clarifications
You have a week, so get cracking and get nominating! Also, we currently only have ten definite judges this time around. While I am awaiting clarification from some people, I am wondering if anyone out there would like to join us and help with the judging: the more judges means the sooner the winners are revealed.
Thank you and good luck to all!
