The winners of these awards will be nominated and voted on by you, the community members. Nominations will be held March 7 - 13. The top nominees for each category will be placed into polls on the forum, where you will be able to vote for your favorites. Voting will take place during the week of March 14 - 20. The winners will be officially announced on March 23, the third anniversary of the community.
We will have a number of categories for the awards. Each community member will be allowed to nominate up to 4 entries for each category. Details on how to nominate entries will be revealed later this week. To be eligible for nomination in any category, entries must be posted somewhere on the Fringes of Algo website before 12:00 am Eastern Time (GMT/UTC - 5) on March 7, 2010. Since this is our first Muskies ceremony, all content from the creation of the site until that time is eligible for an award.
The categories that will be available are listed below. Others categories may be announced when nominations are opened. I am still open to suggestions of additional categories.
- Best Single Chapter Fan Fiction
This award recognizes your top choice of any story posted in the Fan Fiction section that consists of only one chapter. - Best Multiple Chapter Fan Fiction
This award recognizes your top choice of any story posted in the Fan Fiction section that consists of more than one chapter (or post). This takes into account the entire story. - Best Fan Artwork
This award recognizes your top choice for a piece of outstanding fan artwork posted in the Fan Art section or the forums. A list of most fan artwork posted in the forums can be found here. - Best Forum Game
This award recognizes your choice for the top topic in the Forum Games section. - Best Introduction Topic
This award recognizes your choice for the top topic in the Introductions section. - Best Avatar
This award recognizes your choice for the member who has the most impressive avatar. - Best Signature
This award recognizes your choice for the member who has the most interesting signature. - Best Fan Game
This award recognizes games created or altered by Phantasy Star fans. Eligible Fan Games can be found in the Fan Games Downloads, Emulation Patches Downloads, and Fan Games Forum. - Best Download
Even though most of the downloads were posted via my account and have the name Thoul on them, a great many were created by other members of the community. This award recognizes the best work available in the Downloads section of the site. Fan Games and Emulation Patches are not eligible for this award, but all other downloads are eligible. - Most Successful Discussion
This award recognizes your choice for the best discussion topic on the forums. Non-discussion topics or topics that fit into another award category (such as Forum Games, Fan Fiction, or Fan Artwork topics) are not eligible for this award. - Fringer of Excellence
This award recognizes an outstanding member who you feel best illustrates the qualities that the community values. Kindness, sharing knowledge in a productive manner, things like that. You don't have to be a Phantasy Star expert to receive this award - just a great community member. (Site Staff - that being Thoul - is not eligible for this award.)
Anyone that would like to enter additional signatures or avatars for the Best Signature or Best Avatar categories can do so in a thread created for that purpose.
Winners will receive bragging rights, a notation of excellence on their member profile/topic/whatever, special Golden Muskies graphic (similar to that above), and maybe other prizes that have yet to be determined.