The Roleplay Awards
The East Pacific’s roleplaying universe is a collection of stories and an anthology of poems that stem from our experiences, gifted imaginations and wisdom that we use to frame an entire world. The enthusiasm with which players approach it, the frequency with which they participate, the emotion they evoke, the precision and technical knowledge that they display, the power with which they write and the thoughtfulness with which they report, are worthy of recognition. Each person has something different to contribute.
The Roleplay Awards are made with great purpose in mind, intended to recognise roleplayers and the work that they have devoted their time to. With that in mind, the Roleplay Awards will comprise of the following categories; Roleplayer, Roleplay, Character, Broadcast, Wiki and Design.
When you have won a category, you will begin a tally of trophies that you may accrue; for each category, 1st is awarded three trophies, whilst 2nd is awarded two trophies and 3rd is awarded one trophy. These awards are held in January and July each year to celebrate the previous sixth months. There are four tiers: Bronze (3+ trophies), Silver (8+ trophies), Gold (13+ trophies), and Platinum (18+ trophies), each time you reach a new tier you will be granted a special banner for your signature and special recognition in our Discord servers and the East Pacific News Service. Also, don’t forget to check out our Trophy Tally room!
Once you reach Platinum, your honour, love and devotion will be forever remembered in the Hall of Roleplaying Heroes with a special write up of your works.
Goodluck!
Voting, Eligibility, Other
Voting:
Entities in each category that has not seen any activity since before the designated period started are not eligible during the voting period (check below for variability on this rule per category). At some point in the aforementioned months of the awards, there will be a 7 day nomination period, followed by a 7 day voting period, followed by up to a 7 day processing period.
You can NOT vote for your own roleplay, characters and et cetera. Any votes cast for their own works wont be accepted and will be null.
Eligibility:
Only members of TEP’s forum roleplaying universe have the rights to vote, and only members of TEP’s forum roleplaying universe that have posted during the designated period may cast a vote. Therefore if a member of TEP’s forum roleplaying universe hasn’t posted in the designated period their vote will not be acknowledged.
Roleplay
Roleplays in the six month period must have at least three posts made in that period. Roleplays created in the month period leading up to the RP Awards do not need to conform to a three post cap. So new threads, go for it.
Multiple posters to a “Roleplay” category winner
Under the circumstances that a roleplay thread with multiple posters wins the “Roleplay” category of voting, then any poster who has contributed 10% or more of the posts, or who is in the top 20% of contributors by post count, will win a trophy.
Characters
Each time a post with a character has been made in a thread during the designated period, the character will be added to a list of characters to vote from during the voting period at the end of each designated. Characters that have not seen any activity since before the designated period started are not eligible during the voting period.
Wiki
TEPWiki pages eligible for nomination must have an edit, or edits consisting of over 1,000 bytes in the six month period. This is to try and eliminate TEPWiki pages which have been “resurrected” for the purpose of trying to win awards, if they have not seen significant editing. TEPWiki pages created in the month period leading up to the RP Awards do not need to conform to a 1,000 byte cap. So new pages, go for it.
Design
The Design category will encompass any flags, emblems, logos, signatures, or any other creative element nominated by either yourself or someone else, created in the designated period. If a design was created in June and it’s the January awards, no can do!
Roleplayer
Roleplayers eligible for vote can have been active in any form of RPing for the designated period, except if their activity is Discord exclusive since it is hard to moderate.
Limit on nominations
To limit the amount of nominations we will have, please only submit a maximum of five nominations per category.
Award conducting
The Roleplay Admin, Roleplay Moderator or a member of Discord Staff as designated by the aforementioned roles shall conduct the Roleplay Awards.
