Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26485526-20160803165229

So, the community was pretty much decided with their nominations, so most if not all categories have about three to five nominations for it. We're going to move to the rating stage, which will only apply for categories that have more then three representing it to decide which will make the final cut for the official voting stage.

''The nominees that you will have to rate are listed below. Take some time to check them out and rate them on a scale of one to six, you have plenty of time!''

 Fanon Seasons 
 * Outstanding Finished Fanon Season - Down Under - All Stars, Jamaica - Second Chances, Laos, Monterrey - Brain vs Brawn vs Beauty vs Bad, Montserrat, Upolu, World Invasion and Yucatan!
 * Outstanding On-Going Fanon Season - Finland, Oman - Heroes vs Villains, Sazan, Sulawesi, and Tasmania - Vengeance!
 * Outstanding Upcoming Fanon Season - Belize, Romania - Good vs Evil, Saudi Arabia, and Uruguay!
 * Most Dramatic Season - Laos, Sazan, Sulawesi, Tasmania, and Upolu!
 * Most Comedia Fanon Season - All Stars - Heroes vs Villains, Oman - Heroes vs Villains, Sazan, Sulawesi, Tasmania - Vengeance, and Upolu!

 Fanon Character 
 * Best Female Character - Anna Lee Walker (Falkland Islands), Ashley Smith (Finland), Betty-May Atkinson (Ivory Coast), Deanne Arbuthnot (Oman), Jada Moya (Laos), Joan Zdrill (Montserrat), Jocelyn McArdle (Tasmania), Kelsie Mandock (Sazan), Nikki Patterson (Sulawesi), Phoebe Tonkin (World Invasion), Sasha Hayes (Upolu), Selina Millville (Tasmania), and Skanda Fox (Upolu)!
 * Best Male Character - Brian Spurlock (Sulawesi), Cameron Shugg (Tasmania), Fernando Herrera (Laos), Giancarlo Ricci (Sri Lanka), Ivan Zalinsky (Peru), Jasper Cartwright (Sazan), Johannes Wilkins (Upolu), Kerry Baker (Peru), Ruben Arkley (Upolu), and Tucker Andrews (Monterrey)!
 * Best Hero Characther - Andrew Ng (Finland), Fran Xie (Laos), Jasper Cartwright (Sazan), Johannes Wilkins (Upolu), and Vanessa Saluk (Montserrat & Oman)!
 * Best Villain Character - Carlos Shannon (Finland), Colleen Hodges (Monterrey), Deanne Arbuthnot (Oman), Desiree King (Upolu), Hershey Trudel (Tasmania), Jada Moya (Laos), Kelsie Mandock (Sazan), and Nikki Patterson (Sulawesi)!
 * Most Needing Redemption - Alfonso Clarke (Upolu), Cooper James (Sulawesi), Fernando Herrera (Laos), Kacey Longley (Laos), Kim Mi-Na (Sazan), Phoenix Redsky (Tasmania), Sheila Feigenbaum (Tasmania), and Vicktor Hernandez (Tasmania)!
 * Best All-Star Character - Brian Spurlock (Sulawesi), Dianne Dickerson (Peru), Fran Xie (Laos), Megan Rios (Tasmania), Regan Blakely (Sulawesi), and Stephanie Guia (Sazan)!

 Fanon Episode 
 * Most Dramatic Episode - Better Than the Business (Sulawesi), Hatred Only Runs Skin Deep (Laos), If Hating Him Was an Olympic Sport, I'd Have the Gold Medal (Upolu), Maximum Insanity (Sulawesi), The Lillian Morris That Wins (Tasmania), The Ultimate Gambit (Cuba), Wonder If You Can Get Voted Off For Even Existing (Sazan), and You Can't Forget to Wipe! (Tasmania)
 * Best Written Episode - Better Than the Business (Sulawesi), Hatred Only Runs Skin Deep (Laos), I Didn't Come Out Here to Eat Fried Chicken (Sulawesi), I'm the Boogeyman (Tasmania), The Ultimate Gambit (Cuba), Wonder If You Can Get Voted Off For Even Existing (Sazan)
 * Best Elimination - Audrey Pearce (Oman), Braiden Phipps (Sulawesi), Desiree King (Upolu), Glenn Ryans (Russia), Janice DeRosario (Goa), Jocelyn McArdle (Tasmania), Sasha Hayes (Upolu), Shelby Phillips (The Carribean)
 * Best Episode Title - Deux Ex Machina (The Carribean), Holy Potatoes (Sulawesi), I Didn't Come Out Here to Eat Fried Chicken (Sulawesi), Salad is Not Food (Tasmania), That Delicious Mexican (Tasmania), The Car Chitty Chitties and Bang Bangs (World Invasion), We Can All Travel on Pie! (Sazan), Your Brain Must Be on Long Service Leave (Upolu)
 * Best Quote - Give me Sex on the Beach! (Hershey Trudel), (screaming) Go blow up a building, you terrorist! (Ruben Arkley), I saw naked boobs today. HUGE boobs! (Ruben Arkley), Salad is not food! (Tamara Oakenwald), and (Vanessa is drunk in the confessional) What? I'm allowed to a drunk confessional! (glares to the right) Don't LOOK at me like that! Anyway... I'm drunk! Did you know that? Oh, oh, and I also came up with the merged tribe name! It's called (dramatic pause) MELLOW YELLOW! AFTER THE SONG! Get it? (cackles) I... oh, my goodness. (giggles) Hey, cameraman? I love you. You know that, right? I love you. You're the most awesome cameraman ever! You know, they should give you a raise! You deserve a raise! (burps, then pauses) Oh dear... that will NOT smell good! Um... let's blame that on someone else! (looks around for something to blame it) It was that bird! (pointing at random bird that has flown to sit down beside her) It was TOTALLY that bird! You saw that, right, cameraman? It was the bird! (giggles) I love you, cameraman. You know that, right?" (Vanessa Saluk)!

 Fanon Other 
 * Best Fanon Moment - Hershey Trudel's Elimination (Tasmania), Josephine's jury speech (Upolu), Kelsie Crying (Sazan), Ruben calls Josephine a terrorist (Upolu), Sasha yells at Ruben (Upolu), Shelby Phillips Elimination (The Carribean), Talon quitting (Sulawesi), Vengeance Tribal Council (Tasmania), and Wet palm frond falls on Hershey (Tasmania)!


 * Best Fanon Logo - Cuba, Finland, Laos, Oman - Heroes vs Villains, Ranong, The Carribean


 * Best Rivalry - Audrey Pearce vs Yolanda Marquis (Oman), Desiree King vs Skanda Fox (Upolu), Kel Bronder vs Jada Moya (Laos), Kris Nightingale vs Itsuki Takenawa (Eyre Peninsula), Josephine Murray vs Ruben Arkley (Upolu)

 Fanon Users 
 * Outstanding Author - Coolio15, MightyUke416, Winxclubfan1, and Tanglefrost!


 * Outstanding Editor - Jonghyun408, Just323, Tanglefrost, and Winxclubfan1!


 * Outstanding New Author - Crazybone5000, Nathan Shultz, Tozza6, and Winxclubfan1!


 * Outstanding Illustrator - Coolio15, Just323, LoverOfAllTheTurtles, MightyUke416, Yyaku

Here is the process that will be followed for the next part:
 * 1) The community will rate the nominations from a scale of 1 to 6 before August 24th in this thread.
 * 2) The community will then vote from the three highest rated nominations before September 1st and the results will be posted the day after.
 * 3) In order to rate a fanon, a user must have made a minimum of fifty (50) edits.
 * 4) Previous winners of a given category may not be nominated again.
 * 5) Rating of own's work is NOT allowed.
 * 6)  DO NOT SOCKPUPPET TO NOMINATE. If you are caught sockpuppeting, you will be disqualified from the Fanon Awards and you will be banned.
 * 7) The rating process shall take place through commenting.
 * 8) Winners receive the corresponding template on their fanon pages and/or user pages.

That's all. Happy voting! Good luck! 