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User Choice Awards Voting: Best Completed Quest
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Rules and Procedures for Voting
Hello!
Voting for Best Completed Quest opens , and will remain open until . For those of you who are looking for more information on the Users' Choice Awards generally, you can find it in this thread!
In short, the Users' Choice Awards are about celebrating the best and most beloved quests, stories, and other creative wonderfulness on SV, as decided by SV users. The Awards take place in two phases. During the Nomination Phase, almost four hundred nominations were made across nine categories. These have been narrowed down to only five* in each category.
Now, in the Voting Phase, you get to vote to see which is crowned as champion!
*(In the event of multiple nominees tying, then the tied nominees will all go through to voting so long as the total number of nominees does not exceed ten. In this case tied or excess nominees will not be counted. We will adjudicate this so that no tied nominees are ever privileged any other tied nominees, and nominees with the lowest number of votes are always discounted first.)
Please try to take the time to read the nominees before voting. Each of them had to fight really hard to get here, and they are worth giving a chance!
At , the poll will be closed, and the thread with the highest number of votes will be the winner!
In the event of a tie, we will have joint winners.
This thread will serve as a discussion thread for the voting.
Please feel free to discuss the threads you are voting for, and why. Whether it's an impassioned argument for why people should vote for your favourite work, or just some great commentary and analysis, we love to see it, and this is the place for it!
Voting for Best Completed Quest opens , and will remain open until . For those of you who are looking for more information on the Users' Choice Awards generally, you can find it in this thread!
In short, the Users' Choice Awards are about celebrating the best and most beloved quests, stories, and other creative wonderfulness on SV, as decided by SV users. The Awards take place in two phases. During the Nomination Phase, almost four hundred nominations were made across nine categories. These have been narrowed down to only five* in each category.
Now, in the Voting Phase, you get to vote to see which is crowned as champion!
*(In the event of multiple nominees tying, then the tied nominees will all go through to voting so long as the total number of nominees does not exceed ten. In this case tied or excess nominees will not be counted. We will adjudicate this so that no tied nominees are ever privileged any other tied nominees, and nominees with the lowest number of votes are always discounted first.)
How Voting Works
Voting will be done via the poll you see right at the top of this thread. You can vote for as many or as few of the nominees as you like, and you can also change your vote if you wish, up until the close of voting. It's just that simple!Please try to take the time to read the nominees before voting. Each of them had to fight really hard to get here, and they are worth giving a chance!
At , the poll will be closed, and the thread with the highest number of votes will be the winner!
In the event of a tie, we will have joint winners.
Nominees
And now, without further ado, the 2023 User Choice Awards Nominees for Best Completed Quest:Article:
By the Homeworld I'll Someday be Banned From, by @Erien
Suffer Not ≡][≡ 40k Inquisition Quest, by @open_sketch
Spartacus Rising 1919: An Alt-TL Revolution Quest, by @The Laurent
Of Wizards and Winter (WHF Wizard Quest), by @Maugan Ra
The Practice War, by @Snowfire
Petals of Titanium -- My Life as a Mecha Setting Bridge Bunny Quest, by @Gazetteer
Kingdom of God: A Quest of Holy Revolution, by @Cetashwayo
This thread will serve as a discussion thread for the voting.
Please feel free to discuss the threads you are voting for, and why. Whether it's an impassioned argument for why people should vote for your favourite work, or just some great commentary and analysis, we love to see it, and this is the place for it!
⭐ Voting is Open ⭐
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[]By the Homeworld I'll Someday be Banned From
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Did you also vote in the poll at the top of the page?
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... I plead my title.
But for anyone still thinking about which one to pick, By The Homeworld is something that takes many of the most dynamic and emotional parts of Mass Effect's characters and throws them onto even more dysfunctional, quirky people who are very good at what they do. It's a running gun battle through the Citadel traffic one moment, the next the heroine reflecting on her life's path. It's high octane in every respect: Actions, emotions, and consequences. It also has some minor shuffling of the canon characters and the pre-ME1 status quo if you're also looking for that itch getting scratched.
My vote goes to Spartacus Rising. My brain is a sieve and thus there are multiple examples in that list up there that I only remember having read with barely any additional details coming to mind, but seeing that title immediately conjures a ton of - mostly dark and haunting - scenes. Like, the entire Battle for Berlin was just a giant depressing gruesome banger.
It also depicts such an interesting underappreciated slice of history. It genuinely felt educational. I never knew about Anarchist Bavaria, for example, despite living quite close to that region.
It also depicts such an interesting underappreciated slice of history. It genuinely felt educational. I never knew about Anarchist Bavaria, for example, despite living quite close to that region.
Thank you for letting me know! Will fix this presently.
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I'll be making my pitch for petals of titanium. It's a well paced drama which stands out for it's original setting, and the interesting choice of protagonist. The choices made feel particularly impactful and far reaching, blending excellently with classic twists and multiple perspectives to tell an emotional tale you have to experience for yourself. Thanks again for one of my absolute favorites @Gazetteer.
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It's very flattering that people are still nominating my quest for this vote, I'm sure there are many excellent newer quests for them to consider as well.
Dragontrapper
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Why is a quest that finished in 2019 in a 2023 Completed Quests contest though...?
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its completed and never won before?
Dragontrapper
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Still wierd for a 2019 Quest to be in a 2023 contest
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It's only four out of seven of the nominees up there that were actually completed in 2023. One of the others also finished in 2019, and another in 2022. I feel like for this category in particular, you'd have some trouble filling out this many nominees people are excited to vote for if you restricted it to quests that finished during the calendar year the vote takes place on. Most quests, even most popular ones, don't finish.
I am a bit surprised that people are still enthusiastic enough about Petals of Titanium to keep nominating it, but I always feel that way when people care any my writing.
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Maybe we should give badges out for that? : p
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Petals of Titanium is an easy vote for me. It's one of the first things I read on SV and hooked me on the concepts of quests. I also think it is just really good.
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Because people nominated it? There is no specification that a quest has to be one that has finished recently. One of the other nominees also finished in 2019 and of the 4 nominees for best completed fic one of them was completed in 2020. It also has never won before and a sequel kept it in the hearts and minds of voters for several years past it's completion.
I'd love to be able to nominate Undoomed a magical girl original for that badge. Team made to last for life.
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Dragontrapper
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Still seems wierd for old quests to be allowed in a 2023 contest, but okay. I don't get to make the rules.
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Well might as well shill a quest after giving my two cents on the rules..
By The Homeworld is a ME quest where you don't play as Shephard, or with them really it explores the setting as a setting and thats novel compared to alot of ME works ive seen.. also i think the MC channels the collective anger of every IT support rep in the world
By The Homeworld is a ME quest where you don't play as Shephard, or with them really it explores the setting as a setting and thats novel compared to alot of ME works ive seen.. also i think the MC channels the collective anger of every IT support rep in the world
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I am honoured to accept my victory and...
(Look just... don't look at the graveyard alright)