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Welcome

28 July 2010

Nomination period has ended! Normally, this would be a "voting period has ended!" post, but due to a massive amount of nominations coming in last minute, the judges have not had enough time to get through them all. However, there have been a good number of nominees already put up. On Monday, voting will officially be open. (For real this time.)

Notice About Challenge Submissions: Challenges submitted after this point will not be eligible for Reader Voting. The voting form has already been made for the Challenge Response category. To submit a challenge, please send your submission to skowawards[at]gmail.com with the author, title, URL, and the challenge.

Some accepted e-mails have already been sent out, as well as rejections. Come Monday, nominees will be final. Please note that acceptance letters go to the author, not the nominator. Rejection letters go to the nominator. If you wish to see if your nomination was accepted, keep checking the nomination page as I update it.

As always, if you have any questions or any other feedback, drop us a line in the cbox or send an e-mail. My contact information is located on the "Contact Us" page. The judges' information are located on the Staff page.

23 July 2010

As you can see, the nomination period has been extended. The dates have been changed, as you can see on the sidebar.Whew! Thank goodness. There are a good number of categories that still desperately need nominations. They are as follows: Best Love Triangle (Incomplete), Best Lovers' Spat, Punk'd Award. The following categories have been closed for nominations: Best Chemistry, Best Series, and Best International. Most Humorous, Amazing Wordsmith, and Best Awkward Moment still need a few more nominees.

In addition, I am extending the deadline for challenge responses to be submitted as I will be putting up new challenges within the next few days. You may submit challenge responses until August 8. So get working! :)

16 July 2010

Best Chemistry has temporarily been closed for nominations. It may open again, but LilyAnna is currently bogged down with nominations. The other categories would like some love, however. Redirect your nominations to the mentioned categories below!

If you're having any issues with the nomination forms, please state your problem CLEARLY and state which category you were trying to nominate for.

13 July 2010

Woohoo! A bunch of new updates. :)

1. New layout! This one was again made by Nic, featuring the country of Japan. It's different from our usual site layout. Hope you can get used to it. :) Give her some mad props for this, yeah?

2. Nominees page updated! There are a few nominees already confirmed for this round. Hooray! PLEASE keep sending in your nominations. The judges are absolutely craving nominations. With the exception of the Most Memorable and Best M-Rated, the other categories are sorely lacking nominations. The following categories don't even have 10 nominations: Punk'd Award, Best Awkward Moment, Most Humorous, Best International. The other categories are sorely lacking as well. Focus your energy! Search through FictionPress! Give my judges some work to do!

3. Nomination forms are back up! After a brief switch-over to new forms, they are finally back up. If you experience any problems, drop me a line in the Cbox and I'll see what I can do. :)

More updates to come! Keep a look out! Tell your friends to drop by SKoW and nominate, yeah?

3 July 2010

Yes, there is a new category. I forgot to announce it last update! The Sweetest Treat Award has been replaced by the Best International category. Here is the description for it:

This award celebrates Round 10's theme of Around the World, which celebrates the FIFA World Cup 2010! It is for the story that best portrays the country that the story is set in. (For example: A story set in Japan -- story with really good and realistic descriptions of Japanese life, culture, and setting.)

I did a good amount of updating today! You may notice that the staff page, categories page, and About Us page has finally been updated. I've also done some minor fixes all over the site. If you see anything else off, please don't hesitate to let me know!

As you may notice, I've uploaded a new layout! For this round, I will be cycling through layouts very frequently so that we can cover as many countries as possible. Some layouts may only be up for three days, some may be up for five. Either way, no layout should be up for longer than a week and a half. :) At least, that's the plan. This layout is by the wonderful Nic once again, featuring the Netherlands. We thought it would be ironic that the Netherlands layout would be up after the Brazil layout. Heh. ;)

The winners' graphics have been moved to the Yahoo! Group. All of the winners' graphics from Round 1 onward are located in the Photos section of the group, so please check that out. The nominees page has also been updated to reflect our current nominees. Don't get too excited -- there hasn't been many nominations coming in. There's one official nominee on there, and it's a challenge submission. Speaking of which, send in your challenge responses as soon as possible! The one you see on the nominees page is the only one that I've had submitted for this round. There should be a slew of challenges appearing within the next few days to get you inspired and writing!

There will be new staff openings very soon. If you've been wanting to be involved in SKoW for some time now, get ready! (It won't be judges or graphics specialists, but new positions!) The applications should be coming out within the next few days. We want to welcome you into the Circle of Trust! Are you ready?

A good number of authors and stories will be entering the Hall of Fame this round! Please keep an eye out for those as well. Have a wonderful weekend! (And Happy [early] Fourth of July for you Americans out there!) ♥

29 June 2010

So. It's taking me hours to even upload this one update. :/ I'm going to be leaving my laptop to upload the files tonight (they're pretty big), so come morning tomorrow, the nomination forms should be ready, and the layout should be updated too! At this point, the upload should take about 6 hours or so. (This was posted at 10pm EST.) I should be awake for the next 6 hours and I'll be constantly updating the cbox with the uploading progress. Come keep me company!

Nomination Period Begins: June 30, 2010 (officially)

Update (11:22 PM EST): The nomination forms are now ready and uploaded. These are temporary forms as the site I was previously using has changed their policies. As a result, I am on the hunt for a different site to suit my needs. In the meantime, these forms will suffice. If you spot any problems, please report them immediately!

New layout to be uploaded within the next hour or so. Keep a look out!

Update (11:40 PM EST): It turns out my brother was hogging the internet and doing some heavy-duty downloading on his laptop AND the desktop. :| Silly brother. Internet is mine. :D Anyway. New layout! Hurray! Please give some mad props and crazy love to Nic, who is the maker of this wonderful layout. Our theme, as you may have guessed from the sidebar, is Around the World. In celebration of the World Cup (and because it's cool), the different layouts this round will be featuring different countries and displaying the beauty in those countries. Hurray!

I'm still working dilligently on some things (formatting the nominees page, for one). Keep a look out for more updates!

15 June 2010

Hey everyone! It's been a while, huh? A good two months since I officially updated the site. Not to worry! The site is still, in fact, alive, contrary to the rumors that have been floating around. The site is dead when I say it is. And I haven't said it. So. There. :)

I'm looking for new judges! That's right, our pre-round judge hunt is on right now. The application is located here (.doc format) and here (.txt format). Do not, I repeat, do not download the one off of the Yahoo! Group. That one is old. I will know if you did -- there are some slight differences. :) Use these links only! Send your completed applications to skowawards[at]gmail.com as an attachment. Do not put it in the body of the e-mail. Make your subject be this exact phrase: "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." I will not read it otherwise. Make sure that you have the Judges' Duties and Responsibilities located here. They have changed from previous rounds, so if you've applied before, or you think you know what's going on, you may want to check again. Applications are due by June 24, so get crackin'!

As you may know, I started prompts in between Rounds 9 and 10 as a sort of experiment. Prompts will not be going on during rounds. They are strictly an in-between activity that will occur with more frequency. The past few ones have been experiments of mine. Challenges are still ongoing. There will be a slew of new ones to come, this I promise. :)

The theme is to be announced. I have decided to consult my graphics specialists instead of going with the popular vote this time, but I will pass on your ideas to them to see if there are any that they like, so keep sending those in! (I have also grown accustomed to using Twitter, so that and instant messaging is probably the quickest way to contact me at this point.)

Tentative dates for Round 10 have been posted to the right. Are you excited, or what? Not only is it World Cup Summer, but it's also SKoW Summer Round! Hooray! :D

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