HOF awards for writing?

[Mount Suribachi]

This has also been posted in the Throne Room here. It would be good if we could keep the comments all in one thread so mods, could you please close this topic when you read this so we're all posting in the same thread. Thankyou

I know the HOF awards are a while off, but I've been thinking that we should have some new categories for rewarding all the creative effort that goes on in the Mead Hall & Throne Room. Over on the EU2 forums, their AAR (after action report) forum is chockablock full of outstanding writing. The best get rewarded with an oscAAR, a most suitable prize methinks. BTW, if you haven't already, I suggest you head on over there and check some of them out here . An excellent one to start with is History Park: Who Wants To Be Napoleon


So I was thinking that we should do something similar here, with the following categories

Best account of a PBEM reign. Ones that spring to mind are SeljukSinans Yusuf I and Maniacs Umarian mushrooms (both in the Almohad VI thread).

Best PBEM thread Pretty self explanatory really, I would only include completed dynsties

Best short story

Best Story The difference between the two being length, obviously

I would have the relevant mods - KukriKahn, Shadeswolf, Demon of Light and frogbeastegg nominate 3 or 5 of what they regarded as the best from 2003 for us to choose from.

Whaddya think? Mods, I guess you need to be involved in this too, cos if you don't agree it won't happen

[frogbeastegg]

It sounds like a good idea and I think the two forums would benefit from the event. I would recommend just a couple of alterations:

-Instead of the mods nominating candidates why not let the patrons decide? After all they are the main audience and there will be more participation. AFAIK this is how the HOF 2002 worked.

-What about limiting entries? If the mods choose candidates then they should not be allowed to enter for the sake of fairness. This needs to be decided and set in stone early on.

Anyway if this did go ahead we might be able to get a couple of special icons for the winners, something like the ones for HOF 2002 would be good. Speaking of HOF is story writing going to be a category in this years HOF? If it is then maybe this event should be postponed until then, otherwise the event will happen twice this year and people will be able to grab two awards for the same thing However if this event morphed into the golden quill (or similar) awards this wouldn't be a problem.

What do the other mods (and patrons) think?