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User's Choice Awards Nominations: Best New Work

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    Hello!

    Nominations will open tonight at , and will remain open until .

    For those of you who are looking for more information about the Users' Choice Awards generally, you can find it in this thread!

    In short, the Users' Choice Awards are where we come together as a community to chose our favourite creative works on SV. It is a time for our most popular and beloved quests and stories to come up and take a bow.

    The Awards take place in two phases. The Nomination Phase allows any user to nominate up to five quests or stories hosted on SV, across eight categories including this one.

    The five most-nominated threads in each category will then go forward to the Voting Phase, where one will be selected as the winner!

    Eligibility for Nomination to New Work
    In order to be eligible for nomination, a thread must:
    • Be hosted on Sufficient Velocity.
    • Have begun on or after January 1st, 2024.
    • Be a quest, user fic, or other work of fiction.
    • Not have declined nomination by the author or QM.
    • Not have won the Award in a previous year.
    If you are still unsure about whether something meets the eligibility criteria, refer to the main announcement thread FAQ for clarification.

    How to Nominate
    You make your nominations by making a post in this thread. The rules are as follows:
    • You may nominate up to five threads.
    • You may edit your post up to the closing date, when the nominations will be counted. This is .
    • Each nomination must consist of only the copy-pasted titles of the threads you wish to nominate, formatted like Quest votes, for example:

    • If your nomination is not formatted correctly, there is a risk it may not be counted.

    Where to Discuss Nominations
    Discussion in the thread is welcome! This includes within your nominations post, just please try to keep any discussion separated from your nominations with a paragraph break or linebreak, as you would in a Quest vote. This makes it easier for the Holiday Elves we will be kidnapping volunteering to help us tally at the end. Thanks so much, and we look forward to seeing your nominations!
     
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    • [X] Fluid Pestilence (Sci-Fi, LitRPG)
    [X] Arsonist's Lullaby: An Azula Timeloop Quest
    [X] Asphodel in Mourning: A Disco Elysium-Inspired Pokémon Quest
    [X] Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)
     
    [X] My Loyalty Is To The Republic (No SV, You are the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic)
    [X] O, Child of Liberty! – An American Revolution Quest
     
    [X] Vox Vitae: Warhammer AI quest

    My latest kick. It's a new quest from a new QM, but well written and particularly impressive to me is that has already taken advantage of forum questing as a medium - the way it blurs the line between what the author writes and the playerbase's experience around it into a single work.

    Not in a meta way or anything, it just occasionally feels like the beat of the narrative capitalizes on the tone of the thread in a really polished way.

    In particular I quite recommend after turn 6 reading the thread from the "turn 6 vote closed" voting threadmark rather than going straight to turn 7 - one of the jokes just lands so much sweeter when you come into it steeped in the reaction to the voting results.

    Just nice writing in general and currently updating at a great clip.



    [X] Asphodel in Mourning: A Disco Elysium-Inspired Pokémon Quest

    Wish it was more active, but it's Pokemon as portrayed by the best fight writer in the SB-sphere. I will take and be thankful for every scrap of it I get.
     
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    [X] My Loyalty Is To The Republic (No SV, You are the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic)
    [X] Vox Vitae: Warhammer AI quest
     
    [X] Arsonist's Lullaby: An Azula Timeloop Quest
    [X] Asphodel in Mourning: A Disco Elysium-Inspired Pokémon Quest
    [X] Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)
     
    Not to derail, but the previous best new works award had lopsided votes in favor of fanfics over quests, likely do to a wider fanfiction voter and viewer base overall in comparison to quests. The imbalanced means new quests have somewhat low odds of winning the award overall. It should really be split back into the new quest and new fic awards like it was back in 22.
     
    Randino Treviani said:
    Not to derail, but the previous best new works award had lopsided votes in favor of fanfics over quests, likely do to a wider fanfiction voter and viewer base overall in comparison to quests. The imbalanced means new quests have somewhat low odds of winning the award overall. It should really be split back into the new quest and new fic awards like it was back in 22.
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    That may be true (I didn't check out who won the UCA's last year), but as of now, every single new work in the top five is a quest. Mine included. :D
     
    Duke William of said:
    That may be true (I didn't check out who won the UCA's last year), but as of now, every single new work in the top five is a quest. Mine included. :D
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    Ironic, given all of the winning nominees last time were fanfics.
    Derpmind said:
    An imbalance like that, regardless of which way it falls, still sucks. And would be easily fixed by splitting the category back up again.
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    Precisely. Giving each a chance to shine separately as different forms of fanworks is just fairer to both all around.
     
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    @Skippy Would you please consider splitting the Best New Work award between fics and quests? (See above.) You wouldn't even need a new Nomination thread; just split the results of the nominations here into two categories for the voting phase.
     
    Derpmind said:
    @Skippy Would you please consider splitting the Best New Work award between fics and quests? (See above.) You wouldn't even need a new Nomination thread; just split the results of the nominations here into two categories for the voting phase.
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    We look at feedback each year and take it into consideration when tweaking or redesigning the Awards for the following year. Changing or adding categories mid-Awards is not something we would ever realistically do under basically any circumstances.

    There are a number of considerations going into why "New Work" became a single broad category after 2022. But it gets a bit out of scope given that discussions here are meant to focus on the nominees, and might be better placed in the main UCA thread itself, which is for discussing the Awards as a whole.
     
    Skippy said:
    We look at feedback each year and take it into consideration when tweaking or redesigning the Awards for the following year. Changing or adding categories mid-Awards is not something we would ever realistically do under basically any circumstances.

    There are a number of considerations going into why "New Work" became a single broad category after 2022. But it gets a bit out of scope given that discussions here are meant to focus on the nominees, and might be better placed in the main UCA thread itself, which is for discussing the Awards as a whole.
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    Alright. I made a post over here. (And so did Randino.)
     
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