Rules & Dates
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the_hellmouth_awardsDates:
Nominations: January 15 - February 15
Judging/Voting: February 15 - March 30
Winners Announced: April 15
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 Het category might split into Best Willow/Angel and Best Other Het, again, depending on the number and type of nominees.
About Collapsing Categories:
Collapsing categories is when two similar categories are combined for the sake of having more nominees in one category. For example: the Best Angst and Best Dark categories could be combined into one Best Angst/Dark category, again, depending on the number and type of nominees.
Nominations: January 15 - February 15
Judging/Voting: February 15 - March 30
Winners Announced: April 15
Rules:
- This site focuses on RARE PAIRINGS ONLY. Stories with primary pairings of the following may not be nominated: Buffy/Spike, Buffy/Angel, Willow/Tara, Willow/Kennedy, Willow/Oz, Xander/Spike, Xander/Angel, Xander/Anya, Xander/Cordelia, Spike/Willow, Spike/Angel, Angel/Cordy, Fred/Wes, Fred/Gunn, Giles/Buffy, Faith/Buffy, Angel/Darla, Spike/Drusilla, Wesley/Lilah
- Threesomes/Moresomes are ONLY allowed in the Threesome/Moresome category. Stories with primary groupings of the following are not allowed: Spike/Buffy/Angel, Spike/Xander/Angel, Spike/Drusilla/Angel.
- All fanfiction must be based on the BtVS/Ats fandom. No RPF or All-Human AU is allowed.
- 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.
- Crossovers are not allowed.
- Fiction based on the Buffy Season 8 or Angel:AtF comics is allowed, but keep in mind that the judges may not be reading the comics. It would be best that all comics!fics should be understandable to a reader with no comics knowledge.
What types of fics are eligible?
- Anyone can make nominations.
- Judges and Mods may be nominated, but they cannot judge a category they've been nominated in.
- 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.
Who can nominate/be nominated?
- Authors may be nominated in no more than 9 fiction categories. Authors may be nominated for no more than 2 best author categories.
- Authors can only be nominated once per category.
- A single work of fiction can be nominated in no more than three categories.
How many times can I be nominated?
- A valid email address or LJ/DW 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.
Nominations will be discarded if:
- Categories must have a minimum of three entries to go to judging/voting. Categories will contain no more than fifteen 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. Categories that are not full at the end of nominations may be collapsed* at the mod's discretion.
What else do I need to know?
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 Het category might split into Best Willow/Angel and Best Other Het, again, depending on the number and type of nominees.
About Collapsing Categories:
Collapsing categories is when two similar categories are combined for the sake of having more nominees in one category. For example: the Best Angst and Best Dark categories could be combined into one Best Angst/Dark category, again, depending on the number and type of nominees.