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[UFO Awards] Round Two Open!

Today at 12:08:57 AM by Dejana

Hello again, folks.  

Voting for the 2008 Best Overall round of the UFO Awards is now open! This round pits the first-place story of each fandom category against each other to determine the best fanfics written last year. There's a fantastic batch this year, so I hope everyone will check out the nominees! I eased up a bit on the verification questions this time around, so you should be able to get to the ballot without too much trouble. Please give it a try.

Our competing stories are:

"Stormbenders" by Fandomme
"Epilogue" by Snowpuppies
"Song of the Stars" by shiiki
"Poison Apple" by RobinRocks and Narroch
"How we take what we're given" by jannikajade  
"Under Conveniently Inconvenient Circumstances" by Neko-Chan in Wonderland
"Divergence" by Lyra Ngalia  
"What Could Have Been (And What Was)" by amanuensis1
"Boy Disease" by Jenwyn  
"Point & Click" by Mizufae  
"Sacrifice" by whitem
"The Weekly Hyrule News" by BatNeko
"Can’t Beat 'Em, Join 'Em" by TheBucketWoman
"Silver Lining" by Cynchick
"A Traditional Ninja Romance" by Sinnatious
"Raison d’être" by Astrobright68
"The Last Night" by Lexie
"The Affairs of Wizards" by Gehayi  
"Porcelain" by one_go_alone
"Sexual Jealousy Issues" by annie_oakley
"Ravenous" by Tearlit
"The Woollen Monstrosity" by Anyjen

Voting will run through the end of August. Happy reading!

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*Planned Downtime 6/14/09*

June 09, 2009, 04:05:54 AM by Dejana

Since my hard drive crashed and I had to cancel the last maintenance window, we're extremely overdue for multiple upgrades to the SMF software at this point. x_x About time I got my rear in gear and did something about it, right?

.moon will be unavailable Sunday, June 14th, beginning around 11:00 PM CST and lasting until the upgrades are complete.

The upgrades themselves don't take long, but I have to reinstall all the modifications I've made to the code afterwards, and I can never guess how long that will take. During the upgrade period the site will be in maintenance mode, so it won't be down but you won't be able to do anything with it. The shoutbox will probably be working, but that's about it. It usually takes me a few hours to do these upgrades.

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[UFO Awards] Best of Fandom Winners for 2008!

June 08, 2009, 01:42:07 AM by Dejana

Hello all

After some delay, I'm finally ready to announce the winners for Best of Fandom in 2008! I haven't made the award graphics yet, but I'm going ahead with the announcement so we don't get any further behind schedule. I still need to get some things set up before the next round of voting, so the Best Overall voting round will begin on July 1st. Thanks for your patience, folks. ^_^

You'll notice we don't have a Members' Choice winner for every category this year. The UFOs are expanding into fandoms our members don't read, so this will probably be normal from now on. I figure it's better to let some fandoms go without a Members' Choice award than try to push people into voting in categories they're not familiar with.

Without further ado, here is our winners list!

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

First Place: "Stormbenders" by Fandomme
Second Place: "A Matter of Honor" by Adridere
Third Place: "Ozai’s Vengeance" by Fandomme

Members' Choice: "A Matter of Honor" by Adridere


Buffy the Vampire Slayer

First Place: "Epilogue" by Snowpuppies
Second Place: "Family Bonds" by kimalis 
Third Place: "Propriety" by Cobalt Mystic 

Members' Choice: "Gamble on Destiny" by Leni


Card Captor Sakura

First Place: "Song of the Stars" by shiiki
Second Place: "Symbolic" by fairymage
Third Place: "Points on a Map" by brandeee

Members' Choice: "Song of the Stars" by shiiki


Death Note

First Place: "Poison Apple" by RobinRocks and Narroch
Second Place: "Asylum" by bahari
Third Place: "The Art of Falling" by bahari

Members' Choice: N/A


Drake & Josh

First Place: "How we take what we're given" by jannikajade 
Second Place: "Unexpected Places" by secret_plasures 
Third Place: "Opposites Attract" by folkloric_feel

Members' Choice: N/A
 

Fruits Basket

First Place: "Under Conveniently Inconvenient Circumstances" by Neko-Chan in Wonderland
Second Place: "Embrace" by Spooky4ever
Third Place: "Frozen Hands" by ylana

Members' Choice: "Frozen Hands" by ylana


Fullmetal Alchemist

First Place: "Divergence" by Lyra Ngalia 
Second Place: "Rest for the Wicked" by metisket
Third Place: "Everything I’ve Ever Had" by Artemis Rae
 
Members' Choice: "A Better Fate" by D. M. Evans


Harry Potter

First Place: "What Could Have Been (And What Was)" by amanuensis1
Second Place: "Lamp in the Cooling Room" by sansa1970
Third Place: "Fool (Or, The Many Good Deeds of Draco Malfoy)" by Avocado_Love

Members' Choice: "What Could Have Been (And What Was)" by amanuensis1


High School Musical

First Place: "Boy Disease" by Jenwyn 
Second Place: "A Lot Like Love" by Stessa 
Third Place: "When You Love Someone" by Stessa

Members' Choice: N/A


iCarly

First Place: "Point & Click" by Mizufae 
Second Place: "Sacrifices" by jannikajade
Third Place: "Comparing Apples to Apples" by Mizufae
 
Members' Choice: "iMuse" by thatjamiegirl


Kim Possible

First Place: "Sacrifice" by whitem
Second Place: "Good Morning Kim Possible" by whitem
Third Place: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" by King in Yellow

Members' Choice: "Sacrifice" by whitem


Legend of Zelda

First Place: "The Weekly Hyrule News" by BatNeko
Second Place: "Zelda: A Fairytale" by Sakurelle 
Third Place: "Sweet Child O’ Mine" by Babykoalaprincess

Members' Choice: "The Weekly Hyrule News" by BatNeko


Life With Derek

First Place: "Can’t Beat 'Em, Join 'Em" by TheBucketWoman
Second Place: "When We Began" by pheobe p.
Third Place: "Through Darkness Comes The Light" by jeytonlover

Members' Choice: "Alternatives" by TheBucketWoman


Naruto

First Place: "Silver Lining" by Cynchick
Second Place: "When the house falls down" by sowell
Third Place: "Saying Goodbye" by FairyNiamh

Members' Choice: "When the house falls down" by sowell
 

Prince of Tennis

First Place: "A Traditional Ninja Romance" by Sinnatious 
Second Place: "And Here, We Meet Again" by a1y-puff 
Third Place: "The City of the Wind" by Iluxia

Members' Choice: N/A


Princess Tutu

First Place: "Raison d’être" by Astrobright68
Second Place: "Excerpt" by Seraphim Starlight
Third Place: "Came a Story" by EstelRaca

Members' Choice: "Excerpt" by Seraphim Starlight

 
Sailormoon

First Place: "The Last Night" by Lexie
Second Place: "Asanuma Itto and the Skeleton in the Closet" by superkate
Third Place: "Rubies in Zoisite" by Experimental

Members' Choice: "The Last Night" by Lexie


The Dresden Files

First Place: "The Affairs of Wizards" by Gehayi 
Second Place: "The Greatest of These" by Lyra Ngalia 
Third Place: "The Dresden Omens" by Shiplizard

Members' Choice: N/A


Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

First Place: "Porcelain" by one_go_alone 
Second Place: "Tunnel Flights" by Smoke 
Third Place: "Golden in the Mercy of His Means" by nebroadwe

Members' Choice: N/A


Veronica Mars

First Place: "Sexual Jealousy Issues" by annie_oakley
Second Place: "Any Love Is Good Love, Baby" by Jacqui
Third Place: "Resolution" by zaftig_darling
 
Members' Choice: "The Realization of a Lifetime" by love_is_epic


Witch Hunter Robin

First Place: "Ravenous" by Tearlit
Second Place: "Bird" by Catherine Grissom
Third Place: "Inhibitions" by teenelizabeth

Members' Choice: "Bird" by Catherine Grissom
 

xxxHOLiC

First Place: "The Woollen Monstrosity" by Anyjen 
Second Place: "In All Seasons" by angelofplottwists 
Third Place: "Mommy and Daddy Dearest" by Tsinoitulover 

Members' Choice: N/A


Works In Progress Honorable Mentions

"Mirrorworld" by Tramontana Keeper 
"Gardenia" by Babykoalaprincess 
"Damn, Damn the Circumstance" by invida
"May It Be" by reve_silencieux
"The Smiling Merman" by a1y-puff 
"Lotus Resiliens" by Misora
"Post Partum" by zaftig_darling
"Anthology" by angst_driven
"Come Around" by shangri__la
"Child of the Hunt" by Snapes Talon

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As indicated by the winners list, the stories on the Best Overall ballot this year will be:

"Stormbenders" by Fandomme
"Epilogue" by Snowpuppies
"Song of the Stars" by shiiki
"Poison Apple" by RobinRocks and Narroch
"How we take what we're given" by jannikajade 
"Under Conveniently Inconvenient Circumstances" by Neko-Chan in Wonderland
"Divergence" by Lyra Ngalia 
"What Could Have Been (And What Was)" by amanuensis1
"Boy Disease" by Jenwyn 
"Point & Click" by Mizufae 
"Sacrifice" by whitem
"The Weekly Hyrule News" by BatNeko
"Can’t Beat 'Em, Join 'Em" by TheBucketWoman
"Silver Lining" by Cynchick
"A Traditional Ninja Romance" by Sinnatious
"Raison d’être" by Astrobright68
"The Last Night" by Lexie
"The Affairs of Wizards" by Gehayi 
"Porcelain" by one_go_alone
"Sexual Jealousy Issues" by annie_oakley
"Ravenous" by Tearlit
"The Woollen Monstrosity" by Anyjen

There's still time to join the special panel of judges for the Best Overall round if you would like to do so. (See this thread.) You can still vote without being a member of the panel, of course.

Congrats to all the Best of Fandom winners!

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[UFO Awards] Update, and help wanted!

May 29, 2009, 05:03:58 PM by Dejana

As you've probably noticed, voting for the 2008 Best of Fandom round did not close on time. That was largely my fault, as May turned out to be a really busy month for me, but there are also a number of ties I've been working on getting broken. In addition, the revised process for the Best Overall round still needs to be ironed out.

I should have the results of the Best of Fandom round within a few days. This year, I'm going to go ahead and announce the results before the award graphics are done, so I don't hold things up any further. With everything else, though, the start of the Best Overall round will be pushed back to July 1st. I hate to do it when things had been going so well, but I don't want to rush and start things with rocks stuck in the gears.

Sorry for the delay, folks. The results for Best of Fandom will be announced sometime next week. I'll be needing help for the Best Overall round. Please read on for details.

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Help Wanted!

As you may remember from previous threads, we don't get many votes in the Best Overall round these days. I ask test questions of every voter to make sure they've read the stories on the ballot, since it's a multi-fandom set, and less and less people are getting through. I've decided on two courses of action to hopefully resolve this problem.

1) Easier test questions, to require voters to read an acceptable sample of each story instead of the entire thing.

2) A secondary score coming from a pre-selected panel of .moon members. I'm not sure yet how the votes of these judges would be weighed, but the presence of the panel would ensure we get some result, even if no one in the general public votes.

Item 2 is where you guys come in. I need volunteers from .moon to be on the judging panel. Your task would be to read each of the first-place Best of Fandom winners, in full, and decide on your top three choices before the Best Overall voting round ends. Essentially, you'd be doing exactly what any anonymous voter would be doing, but giving me the blessed peace of mind of knowing someone will be voting. Also, the votes of the judges will most likely be given more weight than those of the general public. 

This year, there will be 22 stories on the Best Overall ballot. The voting period will most likely run from July 1st to August 31st, so you'd have the rest of the summer to read the stories and make your choices. Other tasks may come up during the year that I might ask the judging panel's help with, but the Best Overall round will be its primary task. If you are interested in being on the panel, please send me a PM ASAP.

Feel free to post in this thread if you have questions or comments on the overall process or anything else associated with the UFOs.

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[UFO Awards] Voting and nominations now open!

March 03, 2009, 12:30:20 AM by Dejana

First my hard drive crashes, then I get food poisoning... 2008 is not a good year for me and the UFOs. x_x Buf finally, voting for the 2008 UFO Awards is now open!

For 2008 we had a total of 268 entries, of which 223 were seconded and accepted and became official contest entries. Categories have to have at least three entries to be voted on, which gives us 23 categories on the ballot this year!

• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Card Captor Sakura
• Death Note
• Drake & Josh
• Fruits Basket
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• Harry Potter
• High School Musical
• iCarly
• Kim Possible
• Legend of Zelda
• Life With Derek
• Naruto
• Prince of Tennis
• Princess Tutu
• Sailormoon
• The Dresden Files
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle
• Veronica Mars
• Witch Hunter Robin
• xxxHOLiC
• Works in Progress

We have a wide variety of categories this year, some new, some old. Big thanks to everyone who nominated and seconded stories! Now get over there and vote!

You can jump directly to the voting page via this URL:
http://www.dotmoon.net/awards/awards_vote.php

*Be aware that there is a Members' Choice tally running in addition to the regular tally. Members of .moon should make sure to login to the site before voting.*

The ballot will allow you to vote in as many or as few categories as you want, so don't worry if you're not familiar with them all. You can even go back later to vote in any category you didn't vote in the first time. You can only vote in a category one time, though, so make sure you're really set on your choices before submitting your ballots!

This is the first round of voting, to determine the top three stories of each fandom and the top ten stories of the WIPs. This voting stage will run through April 30th. We're finally fully on schedule!   

Don't forget, nominations for the 2009 UFOs are open as well. ^^

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