Awards 2008 Fanfic Awards Information Thread & FAQ

Ahhh, summer. Sunny days, warm nights, and....fanfic awards!

Yes, it is awards season again. And they're going to be great. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming our wonderful Lt. Overseer and lovely hostesses:

Lt. Overseer: BigFatty

Before the Saga: Lola64
Saga: KrystalBlaze
Beyond the Saga: LilyHobbitJedi
Entertainment Host: NYCitygurl

After discussion with the hostesses about schedules, the 2008 Awards Order of Events will be as follows:

Saga Awards
Nominations: June 8-June 18
Excerpt Submission: June 22-July 2
Voting: July 6-July 15
Ceremony: July 19

Beyond the Saga Awards
Nominations: June 15-June 25
Excerpt Submission: June 29-July 9
Voting: July 13-July 22
Ceremony: July 26

Before the Saga Awards
Nominations: June 22-July 2
Excerpt Submission: July 6-July 16
Voting: July 20-July 29
Ceremony: August 2

Important Information

Eligibility Dates

Stories eligible for nomination include:

- stories begun between June 1, 2007 and May 31, 2008
- stories with a new post falling between June 1, 2007 and May 31, 2008

New Authors:

To be eligible for the New Author award, authors must have posted their first story post in any era between June 1, 2007 and May 31, 2008.

Stories/authors ineligible for nomination include:

- Stories that have won the same award in a previous awards season, for the same story or the same character (see the Fanfic Index for a detailed list of all previous winners)
- Reposts of any story beginning outside the eligibility dates
- Authors who have already won the "Best Author" award

Award Categories

The following is the list of eligible awards for the 2008 Awards season.

Genre

Best Alternate Universe
Best Canon
Best Action
Best Drama
Best Romance
Best Humour
Best All Around (at least one scene of each genre - romance, action, drama, humor)

Style

Most Underrated (a story that averages 6 or less readers per post)
Best Response To A Challenge
Best Songfic
Best Poem
Best Crossover (a story that mixes Star Wars with another movie, tv series or book)
Best Short Story (multiple posts and 30,000 words or less)
Best Epic (over 30,000 words)
Best Vignette (1 post only)
Best Series

Character

Best Canon Interpretation, Male
Best Canon Interpretation, Female
Best Original Character, Male
Best Original Character, Female
Best Non-Human
Best Child (for characters under the age of thirteen, either canon or original)
Best Villain
Best Ensemble Cast

Author

Best Author
Best New Author (must have started first story in any era between June 1, 2007 to May 31, 2008. Does not include socks of a different, established user.)
Best Collaborative (Multi-author or round-robin)

Voter Registration

To prevent sock voting, we require that everyone register to participate. If you registered last year, you DO NOT need to register again. If you have not registered before, go to The Voter Registration Thread for easy instructions on how to do it.

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[b][hl=tan][color=darkorchid]Noms, Excerpts, & Voting: The Rules[/hl][/color][/b]

The following are the detailed rules for nominating, sending excerpts, and voting.

[b]Rules For Nomination[/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. Please see the [link=http://boards.theforce.net/f/b1/27588770]Fan Fiction Index[/link] for a list of past winners.

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 (begun) their first story between June 1, 2007 through May 31, 2008.

3. Hosts are ineligible for

 

Oooh...

Ahhhh...

Big thanks to everyone volunteering this year!

 

Yes!
And I will even manage to get the last votes in before I go on my two-week holiday!
This will be SO much fun. can't wait.
Already, big thanks to everybody helping. You're the best.

 

For best canon male and canon female, can the male or female be from a different universe if it's a cross-over? For example, if it was SW/ST, could Captain Kirk be considered a canon male?

 

Also, this was a question that was answered in a different forum by VaderLVR64, but I don't know if it's still the same answer:

Pink 5 is a fanfilm character who appeared in a canon book by Timothy Zahn. So Stacey is technically some level of a canon character and MamaV said that she would be considered as such come awards.

So if Stacey were nominated as Best Interpretation of a Canon Character, Female, she would be eligible, right?

 

However, Stacey is still in the SW universe where Captain Kirk is not. I'd understand about Stacey.... but not so sure about Kirk, hence my question.

 

Diane: For best canon male and canon female, can the male or female be from a different universe if it's a cross-over? For example, if it was SW/ST, could Captain Kirk be considered a canon male?

No, sorry. Only Star Wars characters are eligible for canon male/female.

Ish: Pink 5 is a fanfilm character who appeared in a canon book by Timothy Zahn. So Stacey is technically some level of a canon character and MamaV said that she would be considered as such come awards.

So if Stacey were nominated as Best Interpretation of a Canon Character, Female, she would be eligible, right?

Yes. Since she was in Allegiance, she is considered canon.

 

Also, if we volunteered and haven't heard back yet, should we assume we were rejected?

 

Saga noms start today, right?

Do we send them to KrystalBlaze or there will be a special sock for that, like past years?

 

Yes, Saga noms begin today. As long as you're registered to participate (if you're not, or are unsure, click here) you can send your noms to SagaFanficAwards. Noms, excerpts and votes should always be sent to the awards sock, not to any of the volunteers personally.

 

Great. Thanks for the answer.

 

For those of you who didn't see this, Lazy came up with a very helpful tool to make nominating easier.

 

FYI -

1) - #11 for nominations contradicts using Knight_Dilletante's templete. It might be a good idea to change #11 to reflect how you want the noms sent - using the { or using a break after the [.

2) I think we need a link for sending the noms. I know you said to use SagaFanficAwards for the Saga noms but there's no link to PM.

 

2) -- Does this help?

I sent in my noms today. I used the {link] format.

 

LOL, I finally figured out how to send them but it took me a while.

 

Thanks!

 

1) - #11 for nominations contradicts using Knight_Dilletante's templete. It might be a good idea to change #11 to reflect how you want the noms sent - using the { or using a break after the [.

I've fixed that. I don't know how I missed it; thank you for pointing that out.

Thank you to Alexis and Idrelle for posting those links! I have added links for all 3 era socks, and also the link for the Help Desk.

 

Saga is now up and running! Come send in your noms!

 

Will there be stickies in each of the eras alerting everyone to the awards nominations and voting? Just a thought from previous years.

 

Will there be stickies in each of the eras alerting everyone to the awards nominations and voting?

I was just thinking about that. Yes, there probably will be.

 

Uppy, 'cause I had trouble finding this.

 

Beyond is now accepting your noms!

 

Is there going to be a sticky in Beyond to help notify people about noms and the awards, like there is in Saga?

 

Yes. I meant to do that today, actually.

EDIT: It's posted now.

 

I've been around for about 2.5 years now and still don't understand the award category for most underrated. I understand that the story has to have six or fewer responses, but how is it possible that withing a day or two of noms opening that the 4-5 stories qualify immediately. If a story is so little known, how does it qualify so fast?

I guess I just don't get the the category.