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Fic Talk => Felix Awards => Topic started by: mare on October 10, 2007, 06:26:30 PM

Title: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mare on October 10, 2007, 06:26:30 PM
The Felix Awards were designed to showcase the best of the best on the Absolute Chaos website in a variety of categories.

Please read the rules very carefully before you fill out the nomination form and take your time and really consider stories before you nominate them.

Rules

Don't stuff the ballot boxes!! That means do not beg and plead for people to nominate you or vote for you.

Do not make a thousand email addresses just so you can nominate yourself a thousand times. In fact you cannot nominate yourself at all. The three of us all agree that nominations just like reviews, should come from other sources so have some faith in your readers. If they feel like your story is worth a nomination then i'm sure you will get one.

No soliciting for any of the nominated stories. For instance we don't want to see threads saying "If you don't nominate this story/vote for this story there's something wrong with you."

Judges may not be nominated in categories they are judging.

Try not to go overboard with nominating one story for everything. In fact, you cannot nominate a story for more then 3 categories.

All nominated stories really should be complete unless it's nominated for 'unfinished' story. We do realize there are  a lot of great stories out there in varying degrees of doneness, but when it comes time for judging, it'll be very hard for the judges to form a solid opinion on a piece that is not complete.

When nominating make sure you answer the questions at the bottom of every category you are filling out. If they are left blank the nomination will not count.

There will be no more than 6 stories per category. We will leaf through all the nominations to determine those stories.

Most importantly... have fun!

The nomination period will start soon, but I am going to start another thread with the list of possible categories so you will know what to expect. Once Chaos is done with the form we'll start taking nominations.

Thanks a lot and we hope you guys enjoy this!

~ Your humble moderators
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: MellzBellz on October 10, 2007, 09:52:33 PM
 I just have a question. What if a story is like basically a few chapters away from completion?
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mare on October 11, 2007, 03:28:46 PM
You can nominate it, but it's really up to the judges to decide if it's complete enough to get an award. Hopefully if the authors see themselves nominated tey'll get in gear and finish it off lol
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mers on October 16, 2007, 03:15:10 AM
i have a question and am feeling really stupid about this. I've searched the threads and cant find it anywhere...

Is there a thread to find out which judge is judging which category? I want to avoid nominating them in said categories they're judging and making life difficult for judges :p sorry if this has been posted and my eyes missed it :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: RokofAges75 on October 16, 2007, 05:38:53 AM
I think they're waiting to assign judges categories until the nominations are done for just that reason... so you can nominate first, and if you're nominating one of the judges, they just won't be judging in the categories you nominate them for. :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on October 16, 2007, 05:58:45 AM
Julie is correct! We are assigning that after the nominations come in, that way no one has to be like 'oh well I wanted to nominate so-and-so here but I can't'. This way you can go ahead and do so and afterwards we will give them something they're not in.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mers on October 18, 2007, 10:37:23 PM
thanks for clearing that up ladies :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: LenniluvsBrian on October 22, 2007, 10:50:47 PM
When does nominations end again? Lol.

~Lenni~
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on October 22, 2007, 11:07:58 PM
When does nominations end again? Lol.

~Lenni~

When there's actually enough nominations to run the competition lol
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: starbeamz on October 22, 2007, 11:08:29 PM
When there's actually enough nominations to run the competition lol

how close (or far) are we from that happening?
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on October 22, 2007, 11:09:30 PM
how close (or far) are we from that happening?

We're more far than close! November 11th is the official end date though!
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: starbeamz on October 22, 2007, 11:10:59 PM
i figured as much. well, I'm trying really hard, when i'm procrastinatin g on my paper, to go through all the stories i can remember to try to pick good ones for each category. it's just hard work!
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: LenniluvsBrian on October 22, 2007, 11:15:06 PM
Thanks y'all! Lol. I just found where it was posted too - haha.

~Lenni~
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mare on October 23, 2007, 02:06:23 PM
We have some noms for almost every category but not nearly enough to have them count for awards at this point. lol

The only category that has 4 noms is best author.  Some have three but the majority have 1 or 2. Quite a few have zippo though.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: LenniluvsBrian on October 24, 2007, 12:10:51 AM
Oye. Some people I think, want to nominate, but then forget to do it - lol.

~Lenni~
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mare on October 25, 2007, 06:04:40 PM
I'm bugging everyone again! Since I am not only the queen of fanfiction but also the queen of deadline giving, I am reminding you that the deadline is coming up for sending in your nominations. We are really lacking in the noms guys.

You all said you wanted awards now it's time for you to take action!!

If you've already sent in nominations and think of more for the same category you have already nominated, just send in another form. Everyone else, all of you who do nothing but talk about how great your favorite authors are, show them the love by nominating them!!


lol Don't make me come over there people! Too much planning has gone into these awards to have them just die on us!! And you all made the mistake of having me involved so get moving!!

Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on October 25, 2007, 06:40:59 PM
Don't make her bring in the muscle *cracks knuckles*
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: nicksgal on October 25, 2007, 10:18:51 PM
My problem is that there's a lot of unfinished stories I would nominate.....

And you said they had to be complete.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on October 25, 2007, 10:23:29 PM
My problem is that there's a lot of unfinished stories I would nominate.....

And you said they had to be complete.

Well we'd prefer for them to have enough to make a fair judgement off of. So if they're relatively close to being finished I imagine we could make the exception
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: nicksgal on October 25, 2007, 10:28:01 PM
Well, I can only nominate for the voted awards anyway. :D

I'm sure the readers don't care if they're finished or not.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on October 25, 2007, 10:36:50 PM
Well, I can only nominate for the voted awards anyway. :D

I'm sure the readers don't care if they're finished or not.

thar ye go lassy, send 'em in!
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: nicksgal on October 25, 2007, 10:41:52 PM
thar ye go lassy, send 'em in!

After my exam tomorrow. :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: LokiNickFan8467 on October 25, 2007, 11:08:59 PM
great just great i cant remember if i followed all of the rules now *hand on chin* well just do the best you can with what i sent then i hope i didnt nominate too much for mare and i didnt see the best author category guess i missed in the copy and paste.... hope some of my stuff counts and sorry i should have read this earlier
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on October 26, 2007, 11:06:10 AM
great just great i cant remember if i followed all of the rules now *hand on chin* well just do the best you can with what i sent then i hope i didnt nominate too much for mare and i didnt see the best author category guess i missed in the copy and paste.... hope some of my stuff counts and sorry i should have read this earlier

Anita, I never recieved your nominations. Did you sent them to myself, mare, and Chaos through the forum? I got the email you sent me this morning, but other than that, I haven't gotten anything else from you.

Also, don't worry about Mare, she's not a judge.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mare on October 26, 2007, 10:15:44 PM
Anita, I never recieved your nominations. Did you sent them to myself, mare, and Chaos through the forum? I got the email you sent me this morning, but other than that, I haven't gotten anything else from you.

Also, don't worry about Mare, she's not a judge.

She sent them to my email address but I forwareded them to you guys :)

And Anita, one of your noms isn't on the AC site lol but other than that everything else was all good.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: starbeamz on October 31, 2007, 09:03:29 PM
So I was thinking...if there aren't enough nominations for some of the categories, couldn't we have another awards "show"? I mean, there are a good number of categories up, and I think it might be easier to get more noms in if there's a smaller number of categories...B ut that's just my opinion LOL I was just trying to find some more nominations, but i keep getting mixed up with what I want to nominate a story for because there are so many categories. Anyhoo, that was my two cents. I could be totally wrong and not know anything at all since this is the first awards thingy I've ever seen/been a part of.
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mare on October 31, 2007, 09:09:57 PM
Actually we are doing pretty good now with the awards. There are only a few categories that arer pretty much dead in the water.

I'll list those if that helps.

These have either no noms or less than three

Best cliffhanger (2 noms)
Best Novella (1 nom)
Best series (2 noms)
Best collaboration (1 nom)

plot twist (1)
dialogue (1)
best out of character (0)

All the others have at least three or more.

If those numbers stay for the above categories they will most likely be ditched lol
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: starbeamz on October 31, 2007, 09:48:55 PM
Hmm, maybe I'll try to come up with some for those categories...

I have a question...wha t do you do when you have more than one nomination for the same story in the same category? Do you just count it as one nom? I know, I'm feeling very questioning today LOL Just wondering....
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: honey on October 31, 2007, 11:23:16 PM
Hmm, maybe I'll try to come up with some for those categories...

I have a question...wha t do you do when you have more than one nomination for the same story in the same category? Do you just count it as one nom? I know, I'm feeling very questioning today LOL Just wondering....


how in the world does that work? the same story for the sam category?  You mean like 2 different cliff hangers? Or too bet villains or something?
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: starbeamz on October 31, 2007, 11:57:00 PM
how in the world does that work? the same story for the sam category?  You mean like 2 different cliff hangers? Or too bet villains or something?

Clarification: I just meant, what would happen if three of us nominated "The Thirteenth Step" for Best Suspense or something? Does that count as 3 noms or just one?

Hmm...writing that out, I sorta got my answer. Never mind LOL
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: mare on November 01, 2007, 02:56:40 PM
oh I understand you now lol that would only count as one nomination. lol

That has happened for a few noms so far
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: kristy_05_88 on November 02, 2007, 05:15:52 PM
Does it matter how old a story is?
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: julilly on November 02, 2007, 07:09:53 PM
Does it matter how old a story is?

Not at all!

Basically the story just has to be posted on AC, and either be finished or close to it!
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: kristy_05_88 on November 02, 2007, 08:21:54 PM
OKAY! Cool, I'll have to think about this, though. I have so many favorites. LOL
Title: Re: Welcome to the Felix Awards!
Post by: LenniluvsBrian on November 03, 2007, 09:27:39 PM
Well, lots of favourites is always good! I've lots of favourites too, but can never remember them - lol. And I couldn't even vote for most the categories! Haha. Gotta love being a judge!

~Lenni~