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Hey guys,

(I may have posted this last night, but don't see the message in the group archives. So if it shows up twice, please forgive the duplication.)

Just a quick reminder that voting ends at 11:59 PM (GMT) on SATURDAY DECEMBER 31. Please make sure you enter your votes and change any draft ones over to hidden or final, if you want them counted.

Please note, this is GMT/UST, not your local time zone. You can see how much time you have left before the end of the awards by visiting www.mefawards.org and checking out the countdown clock in the upper-right corner.

Hopefully now that you have survived Christmas and perhaps have some time off work for the holidays, you will have the time to review a few MEFA stories. Consider it a pre-New Year's resolution to review a few stories this upcoming week. It's really not too late to get involved. :-)

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Also, I am always looking for a few good artists who want to make banners for MEFA winners. I'll be sending out an email to the current banner-makers (and yes, Ellynn, answering your email as well! - I haven't forgotten). This year's banners are available at

http://mefa-banners.livejournal.com/

and I will be setting up appropriate tags over the next few days. But in the meantime you can make banners and share them as a post to that LJ community. Banners for MEFA winners need to include the phrases "MEFA" (or "Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards"); "2011"; and need to either be tailored to a specific place and subcategory, or else have space where that can be entered. They can either use movie screencaps, your own fanart, art by other artists if you have the original artists' permission; or also use stock images like scenic ruins, landscapes, old books, or whatever.

We need people to make banners that can be customized as well as banners that are ready to be used. Also, don't forget we have the new awards, Smaug's Treasures. So don't forget about banners for that, either.

Marta

Hi Marta,

I noticed that the MEFA site does not mention "Smaug's Treasures" anywhere that I can find. Don't you think a description of this should be found somewhere on the site? Even us oldies don't necessary know what is meant by it and I've forgotten what it's supposed to be for and how it's determined.

Or maybe the information is on the site and I'm just looking at the wrong place. It seems to me the most logical places would be under "What's New for 2011?" and/or the description of how the first/second/third/honorable mention places are awarded.

Just a thought.

Fiondil

Hi Fiondil,

It's a good idea to make sure this is described on the MEFA website
somewhere. I will poke around tonight or tomorrow and see what I can
find about getting it added, or perhaps posted more prominently if need
be. :-)

For the record, now is probably a decent idea to discuss the new shiny
that is "Smaug's Treasures." (We had this conversation over at the LJ
site as well, so you're not alone!) The thinking is basically that in
any given year, some subcategories are more competitive than others. We
(the categorizers) try to make the subcategories as fair as possible
through making them the same side, but of course we don't know what
groups will have stories that receive a lot of votes, and which won't
have that.

So Smaug's Treasures is supposed to address that. We will give it to all
the stories that ranked in the top third of the awards, across all the
categories. So basically if there are 600 nominations in a given year,
the 200 pieces with the most points will receive a Smaug's Treasures -
no matter what place (or no place) they receive in their subcategory.
This is in addition to the same old 1st-2nd-3rd-Hon. Mention that we
always award, and if a piece gets more than one award, we'll let the
author choose which banner to choose.

Hope that helps! And I'll look into tweaking the FAQ as well.

Marta

On 12/27/2011 12:41 PM, elhanan_austin wrote:
>
> Hi Marta,
>
> I noticed that the MEFA site does not mention "Smaug's Treasures"
> anywhere that I can find. Don't you think a description of this should
> be found somewhere on the site? Even us oldies don't necessary know
> what is meant by it and I've forgotten what it's supposed to be for
> and how it's determined.
>
> Or maybe the information is on the site and I'm just looking at the
> wrong place. It seems to me the most logical places would be under
> "What's New for 2011?" and/or the description of how the
> first/second/third/honorable mention places are awarded.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Fiondil
>
>



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