2020 Fanfiction Awards - NOMINATIONS

[The Great Butler]

The 2020 Serebii.net Forums Fan Fiction Awards
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It might be hard to believe, but 2020 is finally over, and now it's time to look back on something that was actually enjoyable in that year - it's time for the Fanfiction Awards again!

If you have participated in the past, not much has changed this year aside from some adjustments in the list of categories. If this is your first year, welcome! You are welcome and encouraged to take part.

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The Rules:

- The nomination phase of the awards lasts from January 1st, 2021 00:00 UTC to March 12, 2021, 23:59 UTC.

- Any member of the Serebii.net forums may nominate for the Fanfiction Awards. Nominations should be submitted through the special 2020 Fanfiction Awards website, located here; to nominate, go here. You will have to verify that you control a Serebii.net forums account in order to nominate or vote, either through an automated process involving editing your user profile or by PMing Dragonfree here on the forums. Further instructions can be found on the site.

- Broadly, anything posted in the Fan Fiction, Completed Fics or Non-Pokémon Fics forums in 2020, defined as the period from January 1st, 2020, 00:00 UTC to December 31st, 2020, 23:59 UTC according to the forum's post timestamps, is eligible for nomination. Specifically, for the "Fic Moments" awards, the nominated moment should be from an installment posted in 2020; for more general story awards, at least one installment of it must have been posted in 2020; and for author/reviewer awards, the member in question must have posted at least one fic/review in 2020. The site will automatically enforce this as far as possible.

- When nominating, you may place up to two nominations in each category. You must nominate at least four different authors or their works in all. You may not nominate the same story more than five times total, or the same author more than six times total. Additionally, you may not nominate yourself or your own works in any category. The awards site enforces these limits automatically.

- Asking other people to nominate your work is not allowed. It is up to your readers to decide whether they want to nominate you. The same goes for applying implicit pressure to nominate you (e.g. messaging your friends about how the awards are going on and linking to your fics, without saying in so many words that you want them to nominate you). You may call attention to the awards and encourage people to nominate their favorite fics in general, to boost participation, but attaching advertisements for your particular work to any such post is not appropriate. Failure to conform to these guidelines may result in disqualification from this year's awards.



Any questions, discussions of the nomination process and any necessary bug reports for the awards site are welcome in this thread.

 

[The Great Butler]

It has come to my attention that there was a glitch in the nominations site that was making it impossible to complete and submit a slate of nominations. We believe we have fixed the problems, so if there are any further issues, please let one of us know. If you have tried to submit nominations and been unable to, I encourage you to try again.

 

[The Great Butler]

As an update to the above: because of the aforementioned glitch, the deadline for submissions will be extended two weeks, to March 12, 2021. The original post has also been updated to reflect this.

 

[The Great Butler]

A reminder to get your nominations in, as only nine days remain.

 

[The Great Butler]

Today is March 7, reminder that nominating closes on March 12!

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Ok I gotta ask, what the HECK is going on? Why is there only one nominator? I don't feel qualified to nominate anything because I only came back here in November and hadn't read anything else, but that can't possibly be the case for everyone else.

 

[The Great Butler]

We are discussing what to do about this behind the scenes, but for now we do not have anything that is ready to be brought out.

It's gotten up to three nominators now, so I think most likely there is going to be another extension as the most immediate step. Please stand by for now, and if you can crunch through getting a slate together, that would be helpful.

 

[The Great Butler]

Nominations are planned to reopen for a short period of time. Please stand by and do not vote yet.

 

[The Great Butler]

Nominations will be open for the rest of this week, and voting will begin on March 21. This is the final extension.