Welcome to the AARland Choice AwAARds! This is the first AARland Choice AwAARds, well, ever, so it will be restricted only to the Vicky forums.
What AARe the AARland Choice AwAARds, you AARsk? Well, it is an awAARd system that is voted upon by the public, i.e. you, that occupies a spot below the OscAAR/ReadAAR's Choice AwAARd/VictAARian Cross and...well...nothing, because the OscAARs/ReadAAR's Choice AwAARds/VictAARian Crosses are the only voted-upon awAARd system. This AARland Choice AwAARd will differ from those due to its lack of nomination process, and its blinding regularity. If all goes as planned, an AARland Choice AwAARds will be held at the beginning of every quarter of the year. Oct 1 is the beginning of the 4th Quarter of 2005.
The voting will last until Oct 31, when the votes will be tallied and a winner declared in each category. Voting can be either public, by posting your vote in this very thread, or private, by sending a PM to me with your vote. One poster, one vote.
The categories to vote upon are:
Best AAR, Victoria
Best Comedy AAR, Victoria (Note: For this quarter, this category will not be offered)
Best Expositional AAR, Victoria
Best Narrative AAR, Victoria
Special Category: Best Character in an AAR, Victoria
Category Explanations:
Best AAR: What defines 'Best' is completely up to you. Completely. The 'Best' AAR need not even be your favourite for the other 4 categories. Just what you think is the 'Best'. Could be serious. Could be funny. Could be dramatic. Could be light-hearted. All up to you.
Comedy AAR: Self-explanatory. Any AAR that is intentionally or unintentionally humourous.
Examples of Comedy AARs:
Haba's Take London - A Swiss AAR (The great thing about the Comedy Category is that AARs that they are darned difficult to classify on the Narrative-Expositional scale sometimes, due to them 'breaking the rules' as it were of conventional writing. This AAR might qualify as a Narrative AAR, but its humour qualities so far surpass its mere meeting the requirements of narrativeness that you should only consider this for the comedy category)
Expositional AAR: 'Tell', not 'Show'. Included in this category are as diverse genres as non-fanfic AARs that bury the gameplay only lightly (i.e., 'I did this, then I conquered that, then I did this' format) and history-book style AARs where the gameplay is buried and the alternate world is fleshed out, but the AAR keeps its distance from the characters by not 'going in more closely')
Examples of Expositional AARs:
Peter Ebbeson's Blood to the Ankles - And Rising (While written with the great wit of Peter Ebbesen, the gameplay is too thinly buried to make it a 'Narrative' AAR. This AAR would also count for comedy.)
Syt's All quiet on the Western Front - Germany 1914 (Fairly straightforward expository style. While it does include little paragraphs of quotes, they are not large enough to make it count as a 'Narrative' AAR.)
IEX Totalview's Greek Empire: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (Very straightforward non-fanfic style)
Narrative AAR: 'Tell', not 'Show'. Into this would fall the novel-like AARs with characterisation, plot, and all that good stuff. But the AAR need not be 'novel-like' itself.
Examples of Narrative AARs:
Estonianzulu's War Without End (Most excellent. Very clearly is a narrative-style AAR, no question.)
Examples of AARs that are both 'Narrative' and 'Expositional':
coz1's For the Glory of Persia (Literally contains elements of both, as there are history-book segments and narrative segments alike.)
Special Category: Best Character in an AAR Basically, the best character in an AAR. Your favourite character, the most well-developed character, whatever. However, this category will be counted a bit differently than the others, due to its oddity.
If voting for an AAR that can fit into more than one category, please vote according to the AAR's strength in the category you're placing it in. For example, if I vote for The Glory of Persia in the Narrative section, that means that I think that its narrative sections are excellent enough to beat out all of its competitors (which I do ) but its expository sections need not be the best.
Also, remember, the category is in the eye of the beholder. You may disagree with me in my classification. But I hope my words have gotten across the gist of what these categories are supposed to represent, and that you readers will make wise choices when classifying the AARs you consider.
Also, I ask voters not to vote on a category if they feel that they have not read enough, or indeed any at all, AARs in that category to make a good judgment. Any AAR that has been updated within the 3rd Quarter, that is between July 1 and Sep 30 2005, will be eligible. However, if the AAR in question is updated only once or twice in that period, it is up to your judgment if you really think that the work during that period is worthy of your vote.
Also, you cannot vote for your own AARs.
That means you, Sir Humphrey
Example of voting post:
Best AAR: For the Glory of Persia by coz1
Best Comedy AAR: Take London - A Swiss AAR by Haba
Best Expositional AAR: Greek Empire: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by IEX Totalview
Best Narrative AAR: War Without End by Estonianzulu
Best Character in an AAR: For the Glory of Persia by coz1 - Henry Strachen
(Note: All AARs were completed before 2005 Q3, so they are not eligible anyways)
So get out and vote. I also encourage authors to advertise this in their AARs and whatnot. Please advertise this in your AARs.
What AARe the AARland Choice AwAARds, you AARsk? Well, it is an awAARd system that is voted upon by the public, i.e. you, that occupies a spot below the OscAAR/ReadAAR's Choice AwAARd/VictAARian Cross and...well...nothing, because the OscAARs/ReadAAR's Choice AwAARds/VictAARian Crosses are the only voted-upon awAARd system. This AARland Choice AwAARd will differ from those due to its lack of nomination process, and its blinding regularity. If all goes as planned, an AARland Choice AwAARds will be held at the beginning of every quarter of the year. Oct 1 is the beginning of the 4th Quarter of 2005.
The voting will last until Oct 31, when the votes will be tallied and a winner declared in each category. Voting can be either public, by posting your vote in this very thread, or private, by sending a PM to me with your vote. One poster, one vote.
The categories to vote upon are:
Best AAR, Victoria
Best Comedy AAR, Victoria (Note: For this quarter, this category will not be offered)
Best Expositional AAR, Victoria
Best Narrative AAR, Victoria
Special Category: Best Character in an AAR, Victoria
Category Explanations:
Best AAR: What defines 'Best' is completely up to you. Completely. The 'Best' AAR need not even be your favourite for the other 4 categories. Just what you think is the 'Best'. Could be serious. Could be funny. Could be dramatic. Could be light-hearted. All up to you.
Comedy AAR: Self-explanatory. Any AAR that is intentionally or unintentionally humourous.
Examples of Comedy AARs:
Haba's Take London - A Swiss AAR (The great thing about the Comedy Category is that AARs that they are darned difficult to classify on the Narrative-Expositional scale sometimes, due to them 'breaking the rules' as it were of conventional writing. This AAR might qualify as a Narrative AAR, but its humour qualities so far surpass its mere meeting the requirements of narrativeness that you should only consider this for the comedy category)
Expositional AAR: 'Tell', not 'Show'. Included in this category are as diverse genres as non-fanfic AARs that bury the gameplay only lightly (i.e., 'I did this, then I conquered that, then I did this' format) and history-book style AARs where the gameplay is buried and the alternate world is fleshed out, but the AAR keeps its distance from the characters by not 'going in more closely')
Examples of Expositional AARs:
Peter Ebbeson's Blood to the Ankles - And Rising (While written with the great wit of Peter Ebbesen, the gameplay is too thinly buried to make it a 'Narrative' AAR. This AAR would also count for comedy.)
Syt's All quiet on the Western Front - Germany 1914 (Fairly straightforward expository style. While it does include little paragraphs of quotes, they are not large enough to make it count as a 'Narrative' AAR.)
IEX Totalview's Greek Empire: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (Very straightforward non-fanfic style)
Narrative AAR: 'Tell', not 'Show'. Into this would fall the novel-like AARs with characterisation, plot, and all that good stuff. But the AAR need not be 'novel-like' itself.
Examples of Narrative AARs:
Estonianzulu's War Without End (Most excellent. Very clearly is a narrative-style AAR, no question.)
Examples of AARs that are both 'Narrative' and 'Expositional':
coz1's For the Glory of Persia (Literally contains elements of both, as there are history-book segments and narrative segments alike.)
Special Category: Best Character in an AAR Basically, the best character in an AAR. Your favourite character, the most well-developed character, whatever. However, this category will be counted a bit differently than the others, due to its oddity.
If voting for an AAR that can fit into more than one category, please vote according to the AAR's strength in the category you're placing it in. For example, if I vote for The Glory of Persia in the Narrative section, that means that I think that its narrative sections are excellent enough to beat out all of its competitors (which I do ) but its expository sections need not be the best.
Also, remember, the category is in the eye of the beholder. You may disagree with me in my classification. But I hope my words have gotten across the gist of what these categories are supposed to represent, and that you readers will make wise choices when classifying the AARs you consider.
Also, I ask voters not to vote on a category if they feel that they have not read enough, or indeed any at all, AARs in that category to make a good judgment. Any AAR that has been updated within the 3rd Quarter, that is between July 1 and Sep 30 2005, will be eligible. However, if the AAR in question is updated only once or twice in that period, it is up to your judgment if you really think that the work during that period is worthy of your vote.
Also, you cannot vote for your own AARs.
That means you, Sir Humphrey
Example of voting post:
Best AAR: For the Glory of Persia by coz1
Best Comedy AAR: Take London - A Swiss AAR by Haba
Best Expositional AAR: Greek Empire: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by IEX Totalview
Best Narrative AAR: War Without End by Estonianzulu
Best Character in an AAR: For the Glory of Persia by coz1 - Henry Strachen
(Note: All AARs were completed before 2005 Q3, so they are not eligible anyways)
So get out and vote. I also encourage authors to advertise this in their AARs and whatnot. Please advertise this in your AARs.
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