Awards Before the Saga Awards Nominations Thread! Nominations Now Closed- Qualifying List Last Post!

Welcome and salutations! This is Lt_Jaina_Solo and RK_Striker_JK_5 and we are co-hosting the Before Fanfiction Awards for the Summer of 2005. More information on the Summer 2005 Fanfiction Awards can be found here, in the Official Thread. This thread is the Official Nomination Thread for the Summer 2005 Before Awards.

Important Dates
Nomination period begins June 10th
Nomination period ends June 22nd, midnight
Excerpts posted by July 6th, midnight
Voting period begins July 10th
Voting period ends July 24th, midnight
Awards will take place the weekend of August 12-14th

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The following are [color=red][b]THE RULES FOR NOMINATIONS[/b]:

1. Any story that has won in a previous awards ceremony is ineligible for the category/ies it has been awarded in for this and future awards.

2. Any author who has won in the "Author" or "New Author" category cannot win in that category again. "New Author" is anyone who has posted their first story between November 30, 2004 and June 9th 2005.

3. Hosts are ineligible for nomination within the era they are hosting.

4. Any story posted on, begun, or completed within the eligibility period is eligible for nomination unless it is an on-going story that has won in a category before (see rule #1). The eligibility period is December 1st, 2004 to June 9th, 2005.

5. Stories that have been reposted from "Classic", especially finished and moved ones, are not eligible unless the story is ongoing/completed within the era reposted to and not in "Classic". Stories that have been finished in "Classic" and then reposted to one of the eras are not eligible. Please do not repost a story completed in "Classic" in an attempt to make it eligible again.

6. If a story from "Classic" is still going, it is eligible for nomination in any category it is eligible for, in the era it would be posted in if reposted. However, reposted stories are not eligible if they were completed in "Classic" and then posted in one of the eras. They are only eligible if finished in "Classic" within the eligibility period, or "moved" from "Classic" before completion and have been posted on or completed in one of the eras within the eligibility period.

7. All nominated stories ("Potentials") will be listed in a "Master List". Once they have reached the requisite three nominations, they will be pulled from the "master list" and put into a "Qualifying Nominees" list.

8. If, by the close of nominations, a category has only one Qualifying nominee and several Potentials, all stories in that category are taken to the voting round.

9. No self-nominations. No nominating with socks. Nominating with a sock will result in a short-term ban and all of your nominations not counted.

10. With the PM of nominations, please include links to stories as well as name of story and author names.

Please remember to PM your nominations to[/color] [link=http://boards.theforce.net/user.asp?usr=1153281][color=white][b][hl=red][u]this sock[/u][/hl][/b][/color][/link].

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The following are the stories that won in Winter 2005 FFA and are [hl=darkblue][color=white]therefore ineligible to win or even be nominated[/color][/hl] in the categories they previous won in.

[b][i]Reader?s Choice Alternate Universe[/i][/b]
?To Serve My Master-a Story of the Sith-Dark Obi Wan? by VaderLVR64

[b][i]Reader?s Choice Canon[/i][/b]
?Darkness of Temptation? by Layren and Kynstar

[b][i]Reader?s Choice Action[/i][/b]
?An Improbable Mission? by Knight_Dilettante

[b][i]Reader?s Choice Drama[/i][/b]
?One Lesson Too Many? by Kynst

 

I thought the noms started tomarrow.

-The Scummy-

 

They do...

I am such an idiot...

 

Why don't you lock it until tomorrow then and then unlock it.

 

See no reason why to lock it. We'll just start tallying the noms tomorrow.

 

So, do we start sending in today?

 

Ah, no.

Please start sending in your noms tomorrow.

 

Will do.

 

Hey, at midnight, can we send them in?

 

Just one question--what if someone is posting a story under a sock? How do we know if that person has won best author or not before?

And what are the criteria for "All-Round" again?

 

Mr/Ms Sock,

I've been diving into the Before the Saga stories and although, after so short a time, I certainly don't have the same cultured tastes others will, I think my eye's keen enough to pick out a good yarn or two.

Just want to make sure that's kosher before I go mucking something up. Any tenure or post count minimums?

 

There are multiple categories in which you can nominate the fic you want. Just make sur it's the right one... if it's really short, it belongs in drabble/viggie, ect. As long as it hasn't won that particular category before, there are no qualifications as to what you can nom.

 

Well, I've sent mine in. Wonder if I was close to being the first geek to jump on the bandwagon.

 

Yes, Ish you were the first.

Hopefully you won't be the last or this'll be really anti-climactic.

 

This is just a suggestion, but how about listing the award winners on each thread (Before, Saga, Beyond) so that those sending in their nominations will have a quick reference as to what is not eligible?

 

Good idea, AnakinsHeir. There it is.

 

Striker, it's really hard to read the nominations. Could you please post them somewhere else in the thread? Or at least bold them?

 

Also shouldn't the category names be changed from Reader's Choice to Best?


Thanks so much for my nominations!!

 

Gee, couldn't you have posted when you had more than one set of votes? Make it a little less obvious?

 

Here is a list of all the New Story Index threads for the eligible period.

June New Story Index

May New Story Index

April New Story Index

March New Story Index

February New Story Index

January New Story Index

December New Story Index

 

Thanks for posting that VaderLVR.

 

Master List of Stories Being Nominated (and Haven't Qualified Yet For the Voting Round):

Genres

Best Underrated:
Two of a Kind by Layren (Qualified for Voting Round)
Kynstar and the Count by MysteriousRaven13 (Qualified for Voting Round)
The Green Hand Rebellion by Cantador (Qualified for Voting)
Obi-Wan?s Journal by jacen20015 (Qualified for Voting)

Best Alternate Universe:
The Unchosen by maychorian (Qualified For Voting Round)
Misplaced Perceptions by Bekah-K (Qualified for Voting)
Lost and Found by GkilKenny (Qualified for Voting)
The SITH Shall Rise Again by Drabbo_Fett (Qualified for Voting)
Destiny by tangled-sphere (Qualified for Voting)

Best Canon:
Decisions of Darkness by Layren and Kynstar (Qualified for Voting Round)
Home- a young Yoda story by jodiwent (Qualified for Voting)
The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise by AdmiralNeeda (Qualified for Voting)

Best Action:
Decisions of Darkness by Layren and Kynstar (Qualified for Voting Round)
Home- a young Yoda story by jodiwent (Qualified for Voting)

Best Drama:
Jemmy's Diary by Jemmiah (Qualified for Voting)
Candles Against the Sea by maychorian (Qualified for Voting Round)
Far From Home by VaderLVR64 (Qualified for Voting)
Exile?s End by Frostfyre (Qualified for Voting)
Tomorrow Can Wait by Jemmiah (2 noms)
Crash Course 2: Imperfect by LilithDemodae

Best Romance:
Jemmy's Diary by Jemmiah (Qualified for Voting)
Kynstar and the Count by MysteriousRaven13 (Qualified for Voting
Far From Home by VaderLVR64 (Qualified for Voting Round)
Tomorrow Can Wait by Jemmiah (Qual

 

*scratches head trying to figure out how my vignette got nominated for the poem category*