EVENT: Summer 2018 Awards Winners!

[AetherX]

It's been a long and arduous judging period, but the results are finally in! It was a tough round of discussion, with some close calls. Thanks to everyone who voted and judged, without you this would not have been possible.

For those who aren't familiar with our system, one fic or character from each category is chosen. When there's an exceptionally close choice, we sometimes give out a second place prize.

Without further ado, the final winners:

STORY CATEGORIES​

Best Journey Fic:

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guidance by @Persephone

Best Speculative Fic:

Spoiler: First Place

Different Eyes by @unrepentantAuthor

Spoiler: Second Place

some rise by sin by @kintsugi

Best Character-Driven Fic:

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Phantom Project by @diamondpearl876

Best Expansion Fic:

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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light by @Ambyssin

Best Crossover/Non-Pokémon Fic:

Spoiler: First Place

Any World You Want by @Ghostsoul

Spoiler: Second Place

United We Stand by @AceTrainer14

Best Alternate Fic:

Spoiler: First Place

The Deprogramming by @Arkadelphiak

Spoiler: Second Place

Dreams That You Dreamed by @AceTrainer14

CHARACTER CATEGORIES​

Best Protagonist:

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Pua Kealoha from Dreams That You Dreamed by @AceTrainer14

Best Deuteragonist:

Spoiler: First Place

Wren from spectra by @kintsugi

Spoiler: Second Place

Tessa from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light by @Ambyssin

Best Antagonist:

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The Monster from The Deprogramming by @Arkadelphiak

Best Character Interaction:

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Shane and Tessa from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Guiding Light by @Ambyssin

USER CATEGORIES​

Best Newcomer:

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@Ambyssin

Best Reviewer:

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@diamondpearl876

@kintsugi

Best Written Word Contributor:

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@unrepentantAuthor

Congrats to all of you! Special thanks to @diamondpearl876 for the banners.

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All of the banners are available in the Hall of Fame. This includes the Honorable Mentions, so go check 'em out!

All nominees, regardless of whether or not you won, should be receiving two reviews from the people who judged your work. If you don't get those in the next couple weeks then let me know and I'll go hunt 'em down.

Thanks again to everyone who helped out along the way and a big congratulations to our winners! Be proud of what you've accomplished, you are all really quite amazing. Until next time~

 

[kintsugi]

realistically, I don't say this enough, but I wanted to get two things off my chest:

1) lmfao aether thank you for herding cats for two months this year + putting up with my lackadaisical reading schedule for the trillionth time <3

2) thank you WW for once again being a lovely place of competition + community + growth alliteration what's that. my excitement, pride, and love to all of you! Reading for this season was a genuine pleasure, and I'm so very thankful for all the new and old faces I got to find along the way.

 

[LightningTopaz]

Congratulations to all the winners! It was not easy choosing some of them, but I'm very pleased with the work you guys put out every season!

 

[diamondpearl876]

Congrats to all! <3 Thanks to everyone who nominated and judged, thanks @AetherX for hosting, and thanks writers for just doing what you all do best - writing! - and choosing to share your work with the WW. I agree you should all be proud.

 

[AceTrainer14]

I am honoured and a little flummoxed by the wins - I've long thought my winning days were behind me, so this is a nice surprise. The win for Pua is especially nice given how close I feel to the character, so thank you all who judged and debated.

It's been amazing reading the sheer quality of work on the site at the moment, and even if it was a little stressful, I am glad I took on multiple categories so I could sample it all. The perfect encouragement to be more active around here again! Thanks mod team for putting together another great season!

 

[unrepentantAuthor]

My thanks to everyone involved in this. I'm sincerely glad to be part of a community like this one.

In particular, thanks to @canisaries, @Beth Pavell, @diamondpearl876, @Ambyssin, and @kintsugi for being so kind as to honour me with their votes for Best Written Word Contributor. I always put in a genuine effort and it warms my heart to feel acknowledged for it. It means a lot to me. All the best to all of you. x

 

[WanderingKalosan]

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to everyone who participated in organising and judging!

 

[Ambyssin]

I'm... really not what sure what to say here, to be honest. I had no real idea of what to expect going into this, both as a judge and an entrant. There was only one category where I was familiar with most of the stories and I... didn't get put on that one. And then, against better judgment (heh) I volunteered for a second category. I was expecting to get brushed off given I've never judged anything before. But that didn't end up happening. I thought the judging conversations I took part in went well and I'm grateful to @AetherX and @diamondpearl876 for being so willing to address all my questions and concerns. I don't think I'll be able to commit to quite the same volume next time unless life circumstances change drastically, but thanks for trusting me to do this in my first go around.

To say nothing of the results. This is... really unexpected. I was dealing with a health insurance crisis today, so I didn't really have time to process things until now. It really took me by surprise. Since, prior to today, dp had been my lone source of feedback here for, like, the last three months. (@LightningTopaz I promise I'll get to your feedback once I post all of mine and am not totally beat from work.) All I can say is that I'm honestly shocked. Congrats to all the category winners, but also to all the entrants because I definitely experienced some very unique writing and it was great seeing what you all had to offer. ^^

 

[Juliko]

Congrats to all the winners! You all deserve it!

 

[Persephone]

Congrats to the other winners, thank you for the new (!!!) badge, props to the mods for running the whole show.

 

[AetherX]

All banners have now been added to the Hall of Fame! There were quite a lot of Honorable Mentions, so uploading them here would cause some technical difficulties. Go check them out in the Hall of Fame!

 

[AceTrainer14]

@AetherX, has the leaderboard been updated?

 

[AetherX]

@AetherX, has the leaderboard been updated?

We're still working on integrating awards changes into the badge system. And given that there's a good chance the awards are going to change again, we're probably not going to update the leaderboard until after post-awards discussion, which is coming soon(tm).