NIF EXCHANGE AWARDS 1st EDITION

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 THE 2019 NIF EXCHANGE AWARDS! 
Help us spread the word!

WHEN? 

UNTIL JANUARY 25th, 2020. Winners will be announced on February 5th, 2020. 

WHO CAN PLAY? 

Everyone and anyone at all. You do NOT have to have participated in the NIF exchange to nominate or vote for your favorite works. Creators, betas, treaters, pinch-hitters, cheerleaders, readers, lurkers, absolutely everyone is welcome to play!
We do however ask you to comment while signed into AO3. In the event you do not have an AO3 account, you can comment as a guest but please sign each comment with the same username/email, so that we may keep track of your participation and contact you if necessary. 

HOW DOES IT WORKS? 

All works, including treats, from the 2019 NIF exchange collection are eligible to be nominated for various award categories. (With the exception of any works tagged “NIFEX AWARDS OPT-OUT”.) 

 

Nominate your favorite works for an appropriate set award category, or make up your own free category. Other participants can agree with your nomination by adding votes for that work in said category. For each category, votes will be tallied at the end to see which work had collected the most, and be declared the winner of that category.
There are no limits on how many categories a single work can be nominated for. Simply put, go nuts. 

To nominate a work for a category, simply comment on a work. 

To help mods out, please include at the beginning of your comment this phrase:
“I nominate this work for (name of category) in the 2019 NIF exchange awards.” 

Once a work has been nominated, if you agree with this nomination, you can add your vote to that work in the specified category. To vote, comment on the work and include this phrase:
“I vote for this work in the (name of category) for the 2019 NIF exchange awards.”

Obviously, you are HIGHLY encouraged to elaborate in detail, in your comment, on why you have nominated or voted for the work for that category. 

OOOOH, WHAT DO WE WIN?

Love and appreciation and bragging rights!! Perhaps banners if mods can muster it. 

WHAT ARE THE CATEGORIES? 

You can nominate works using this list of set categories, or make up a free category of your own: 

SET CATEGORIES

1. Best Mei Chang Su/Lin Shu
2. Best Lin Chen
3. Best Jing Yan
4. Best Ni Huang
5. Best Jing mum
6. Best Zhan Ying
7. Best Xia Dong
8. Best Prince
9. Best Underappreciated Female Character 
10. Best JiangHu (pugilist world)
11. Best Courtly Shenanigans
12. Best Worldbuilding
13. Best Alternate Universe (crossover, fusion, modern, etc) 
14. Hurtiest Pining
15. Sharpest Knife
16. Crackiest Humour
17. Fluffiest Fluff
18. Kissiest Kiss
19. Hottest Smut 
20. Pun-tastic
21. Best use of Color (applicable for any medium) 
22. Best Line (applicable for any medium) 
23. Caused most screaming (either distressed or delighted)
24. Most original media work (only applicable to non-fic works)
25. Most original overall work (applicable to any medium) 

 

When votes and nominations are all tallied, works may also be eligible for: 

• Most overall nominations

• Most different category nominations

• Most overall votes, all categories confounded

FREE CATEGORIES

If these 25 set categories do not fit a work you wish to honour, or if you have something very specific you want to honour in a work, you are more than welcome to make up your own category, be it serious or completely silly. The exact same nominating and voting procedure applies. 

 

For example: “best use of the word shenanigans”, “most likely to be made into a podfic” “Most likely to cause dehydration” “Caused reader to stay up latest reading it” 

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TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND COME PLAY!! 

If you have any concerns/questions/suggestions, do not hesitate to communicate with mods at nifexchange@gmail.com