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LMFA: Rules
Any questions regarding these Rules
should be directed to:
LMFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Eligibility |
Nomination |
Voting
Story Eligibility
- Any person who enjoys reading Sentinel fanfiction
online is eligible to nominate and vote in the LMFA.
- Nominated stories must contain characters and
concepts from The Sentinel.
- Nominated stories must be readily available to be
read on the Internet, and must remain online throughout the period from
the opening of nomination to the announcement of the awards. All
stories are eligible regardless of when they were first posted or
published.
- Nominated authors (for author categories) must
have written at least one eligible story.
- Nominations must be made according to criteria
set forth in the current Divisions
and Categories.
- The length of a story is its size in kilobytes
(K) when converted into a text file. Nominations for stories in the
wrong
length category will be shifted to the proper category.
Artwork Eligibility
- All Sentinel-related artwork that is made
available online, in its entirety, is eligible under this section.
- Thumbnails and watermarked art will not be
eligible. Thumbnails are defined as reduced version of a picture, often
(though not always) of poorer resolution.
- Art that is only available offline in its
entirety is not considered eligible due to the nature of the LMFA being
an
internet-based award. If there is sufficient demand for including
offline
art, the Committee will consider including this for next year.
Website Eligibility
- All websites made by a fan(s) of The Sentinel,
and are significantly dedicated to The Sentinel or its characters or
actors, are eligible under this section of the Awards.
- Websites may contain fanfiction, artwork, or
information.
- There is no restriction on the rating of the
website content.
- The major Sentinel archives (852 Prospect and
Cascade Library) are not eligible for this section of the Awards.
Previous Winners
- A story that has won an LMFA may not be nominated
again for the same award. It may be nominated in any
other category that the story qualifies for.
- An author who has previously been awarded the
LMFA for "Outstanding Author" may not be nominated again for that
award.
Eligibility |
Nomination |
Voting
Nominations
- All nominations must be submitted during the
nominating period as specified in the Awards Schedule.
- Any nominations submitted after the close of the
nominating period will be discarded and not included in the final
nomination tally.
- All nominations must be made through the LMFA Online
Nominations Forms.
- Participants may choose to nominate only in the
divisions and categories of their choice.
- You may nominate as many different stories as you
like in each category.
Tallying Nominations
- After the close of the nominating period,
nominations will be tallied by LMFA Committee members and by additional
volunteers, if needed.
- No one will tally nominations for divisions they
may qualify for. Alternately, those involved in tallying nominations
will not accept any nominations in the divisions they tally.
- For each division, there will be two tallying
teams working independently of each other. Once both teams complete
their
tallies, the results will be compared against each other to check for
accuracy.
- If a category does not receive enough nominations
to result in at least three clear nominees for the ballot, that
category will be dropped from the awards for that year.
- The top five (5) nominated stories or authors in
each category will qualify for placement on the LMFA Ballot. In cases
of ties that lead to more than five entries qualifying for placement on
the ballot, all qualifying entries will be placed on the ballot.
- After compiling the list of nominees qualifying
for the ballot, the Committee will attempt to contact the nominated
authors and notify them of their nomination in the LMFA.
- Should an author notify the Committee that they
do not wish to participate, the nomination objected to will be
withdrawn
from consideration and not appear on the ballot.
- Authors who accept an LMFA nomination will be
presented with a graphics icon representing their nomination, which may
be
displayed on their websites.
- In the event that a nomination is removed from
consideration, the next highest nominated entry in that category will
replace it on the ballot.
- In the event that an author or artist retracts
their permission to appear on the ballot once voting has begun, the
Committee will remove the author or artist as requested, but will not
replace
that entry with the next highest nominated one. Note that although the
Committee will honour all such requests, the Committee strongly
discourages this behaviour, due to its unfairness to other potential
nominees.
Limits on Number of Nominations on Ballot
- A story may be nominated (placed on the ballot)
in a maximum of three (3) categories. If a story is nominated in more
than three categories, the Committee will ask the author to specify
which
three nominations they choose to accept.
- Authors are allowed a maximum of ten (10)
nominations (including both story/art and author nominations) placed on the
ballot per year. In addition to those ten, an author or artist is allowed
up to two (2) nominations in the website division. If an author
receives more than ten nominations (plus two website nominations), the
Committee will ask the author to specify which nominations they choose to
accept.
- An individual author may not be nominated (placed
on the ballot) for more than half of the stories in any specific
category. If an author receives more than half of the nominations in
any one
category, the Committee will ask the author to specify which
nominations they choose to accept.
Announcement of Nominees
- The finalized list of nominations will be posted
in the LMFA Voting Ballot, with
links to the nominated stories or the author's website.
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Nomination |
Voting
Voting
- All votes must be submitted during the voting
period as specified in the Awards
Schedule.
- Any votes submitted after the close of the voting
period will be discarded and not included in the final votes count.
- All votes must be submitted through the LMFA
Online
Ballots.
- Each voter may submit one vote per category in
each division.
- A voter may choose to vote only in the divisions
and categories of their choice.
- Anyone submitting more than one (1) vote per
category in each division, or submitting more than one (1) Gen Email
Ballot
and one (1) Slash Email Ballot will be disqualified from participating
in the awards. All their votes will be discarded without being counted
towards the final vote count.
- Any nominated author submitting more than one (1)
vote per category in each division, or submitting more than one (1) Gen
Email Ballot and one (1) Slash Email Ballot will be disqualified from
participation in the awards. In addition to having their votes
discarded
without being counted, any and all nominations that the offending
author has listed on the Ballot will be voided and removed from
consideration in the awards.
Tallying Votes
- After the close of the voting period, the votes
will be tallied by LMFA Committee members and by additional volunteers,
if needed.
- No one will tally votes for divisions in which
they are a nominee.
- For each division, there will be two tallying
teams working independently of each other. Once both teams complete
their
tallies, the results will be compared against each other to check for
accuracy.
Award Announcement
- The LMFA Committee will notify the authors of the
winning entries in each category and present them with a graphics icon
representing their award, which may be displayed on their
websites.
- The LMFA winners will be posted on the website on
the date specified in
the Awards Schedule.
Announcement of the posting will also be made on various Sentinel
mailing
lists and LiveJournal communities.
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