User blog comment:Kaeghan-is-a-Tribute/Tribute Awards Discussion Page/@comment-24692847-20140815170350

1. The categories should be something like this:


 * Best Male/Female Backstory (However, there should be a required amount of words in the backstory, so it's not like someone's nominating a tribute with a 20 word backstory.)


 * Most Detailed Male/Female Tribute (While backstory may be what most people look at, this will be for tributes who have extra categories (habits, token, etymology), and have more detail to their template.)

Now, I only have two right now because I think that the "Best Lunaii" award and like the "Most Interesting Tribute" award could all be fit into these categories, since I assume by "Most Interesting Tribute" they mean interesting backstory. As for the lunaii, I have no idea what a lunaii really has to do for a tribute, except maybe an appearance, so yeah, maybe "Best Appearance" could work, but does that just mean hansome/beautiful tributes win?

I think that we should start off with ten nominees in each category. This way, there's a lot of tributes to vote for, and only two tributes from each user should be allowed in the same category (so they could have three if two are in one category and the other is in another, etc.). From here, the voters get to choose their two favorite in each category that should advance to the final, third round. (The first round will be figuring out the nominees, but we have to determine whether the hosts choose them or if the participants suggest them and vote on them.) In the third round, there should only be four/five (or half the people, if there are more/less than ten nominees) which the hosts select the winners of each category, so there's no bribery involved (i.e. participants trying to get their tribute to win a category by helping another person have their tribute win, in return for them voting on the tribute . . . okay, that was a little confusing, but you get it) and it's fair, so people don't feel guilty about not voting for another tribute.

As I stated before, we do have to figure out how we will determine who the nominees are, and how we're going to get this going.

2. The hosts should be only three people, with one of them sort of leading the Tribute Awards while the others help with determining the winner or by helping choose the nominees. This will help make sure that nobody's favoring a friend's tributes and so that nobody is purposely making their enemy's lose. Also, the hosts should be in similar time zones, so that they can communicate via chat in order to choose.

3. I say we do ten nominees per category so there's more options available. The only reason why I don't want something like two or three is because there isn't enough. There's a lot of great tributes out there, and some of them could be nominated for two categories, but I think that we should just give ourself some time with this and have more than necessary.

4. Every other month. Now, the reason why I say this is because, with TOTM, it was starting shortly after the next and was just getting too confusing. If we give ourselves some time with this, it's less likely to fail and more time to recuperate before the next.

Now, if we do my idea of the rounds, we could arrange it like this:


 * Days 1 through 7 (Week 1): Participant/Voters suggest possible nominees


 * Days 8 through 10 (Dependent on amount of suggestions): Hosts use the suggestions and select the nominees for each cateogry.


 * Days 11 through 21 (Mid-Week 2 through Week 3): Voters vote for each tribute in the categories, although it cannot be their own tribute.


 * Days 22 through 23 (Dependent on amount of votes): Hosts tally up the votes and reveal the remaining five tributes in each category.


 * Days 24 to 32 (Mid-Week 4 through Week 5): Hosts go over each remaining tribute, determining who they select as the winner. The amount of time allows them to have their choices sink in so they don't regret the decision they made and they have the chance to fully analyze each tribute.

Now, I truly think that, in order for this to work, we have to give it time. The hosts cannot have their own tributes in these, as well, so rotating hosts could come in handy if the hosts want to have their tributes selected. I'm willing to help with the hosting if needed. I also would be perfectly willing to make the template for the banner on the top of the winning tributes page, since I enjoy making templates. But, in any way possible, I'd like to help.