2012 Unown Awards: Nominations
Oh shoot, it's October already? Wait, October's almost over?! Better get this started...
So for those of you who already know how this works, feel free to go ahead and nominate already! For those of you who don't, well you know those Unown trophy things some members (such as me) have in their sigs? Ever wonder how we get them? Well this is where that goes down.
We start by nominating a member for each letter and punctuation mark. For each letter, you nominate someone who displays a trait beginning with that letter, and for the punctuation marks, the trait ends with that punctuation mark. Don't feel pressured to come up with nominations for every Unown. Posting only a few nominations is better than not posting at all because you couldn't think of one for each Unown. Of course, if you have the creative juices for it, by all means, post nominations for all 28!
Nominations go on for two weeks, then I compile a list of them and we vote for each letter, picking the nomination we like the best. Since voting requires much less creativity, this round only lasts one week. If there is a tie, a one-week tiebreaker round will be held.
If there is another tie, a sudden-death tiebreaker round will be held, where the first vote decides it all! (In the event that more than one Unown needs to be decided in the sudden death round, each voter will only be allowed to cast a single deciding vote, so I guess that's not really "deciding it all", but you know what I mean). Sudden death lasts as long as it takes for a deciding vote (or votes) to be cast. For reference, the only sudden death round that's ever been held lasted less than a minute. The final portion is the announcement of the winners, where after careful tallying of the votes, I'll... well... announce the winners.
And we're off!
Of course the usual thanks go out to:
-Kevin, for creating TPM, and to the rest of the forum staff
-Lady Vulpix and The_Missing_Link, for originally approving the Unown Awards
-Dark-San and Number1ChanseyFan, for hosting the annual Unown Awards in past years.
-Everyone who has participated in the past years' Unown Awards and have made them a success!
By request, nominations will be extended a week due to some members still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
Remember: nominations will now end on the evening of Friday, November 16, 2012 (my time).
To kick this thing off, here are some of my nominations (more may be added later):
A - Arguing with myself - seannymac96, need I say more?
B - Back Again - mr_pikachu, It's always good to see you in here again!
E - Engaged - Kuro Espeon, Congrats!
F - Friendly - Asilynne, Speaks for itself
H - Hopes and Dreams - Magmar, Because someone had to do it
I - I come from a land down under - Mystic Clown,
U - UnBEARlieveable - Bear, Can you BEAR another pun?
W - World Traveler - Lady Vulpix - For her many travels
