Rules & Dates
Dates:
Nominations: August 1 - August 31
Judging: September 1 - October 15
Winners Announced: TBA
Rules:
About Cascading Categories:
Cascading categories are ones that might be split into further sub-categories, depending on the number and type of nominees. For example: the Best Pairing category might split into Best Willow Slash, Best Buffy/Faith and Best Rare Pairing, again, depending on the number and type of nominees.
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Nominations: August 1 - August 31
Judging: September 1 - October 15
Winners Announced: TBA
Rules:
- What types of fics are eligible?
- With the exception of two categories, all fanfiction must be based on the BtVS/Ats fandom. No RPF is allowed. Dollhouse fics are only eligible in the Dollhouse category and Firefly/Serenity fics are only allowed in the Firefly/Serenity category.
- All fanfiction must focus on a femmeslash or female/female pairing or multiple. All persons in a femmeslash couple should be canonically female or original female characters. Fics centered on canonically male characters that have been transformed into female do not count.
- A WIP (Work-in-Progress) is eligible, but it must have at least three parts, and must have been updated within two months of the beginning of the judging period.
- Fics less than 500 words are only eligible in the drabble/ficlet category.
- Fics centered around a platonic female-female relationship (friendship or family) are only eligible to be nominated in the Platonic category.
- Crossovers are allowed; however, we cannot guarantee the judges will be familiar with the crossover fandom. If nominating a crossover between Buffyverse and Dollhouse or Firefly, use your best judgment.
- Any fiction that received a "win" in the previous round is not eligible for nomination. Ineligible fics can be found here.
- Who can nominate/be nominated?
- Judges may be nominated, but they cannot judge a category they've been nominated in.
- Mods can be nominated, but they cannot nominate themselves.
- Self-nominations are accepted; however, it is preferred that for every time you nominate yourself, you nominate someone else as well. This is not a hard-and-fast rule, and I won't be checking, but the best part of an awards site is spreading the love around.
- How many times can I be nominated?
- Authors may be nominated no more than once per category.
- A single work of fiction can be nominated in no more than two categories.
- Nominations will be discarded if:
- A valid email address or LJ username is not provided.
- It is riddled with spelling, punctuation & grammar errors.
- It is friends-locked or password-protected.
- It is not nominated in the correct category.
- The author declines the nomination.
- What else do I need to know?
- Categories must have a minimum of three entries to go to judging/voting. Categories will contain no more than ten nominees.
- Nominations will be taken in the order of author acceptance. First come, first served.
- Categories that become full before the nominations process is over may cascade* at the mods's discretion.
About Cascading Categories:
Cascading categories are ones that might be split into further sub-categories, depending on the number and type of nominees. For example: the Best Pairing category might split into Best Willow Slash, Best Buffy/Faith and Best Rare Pairing, again, depending on the number and type of nominees.
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