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Hey everyone!

Voting is over, and that means it's time for the Kerth Ceremony!

For easy reference, here are the categories. I'll update this thread as categories are claimed.

BEST SUPER SHORT
BEST SHORT
BEST MID-LENGTH
BEST WAFFY
BEST COMEDY
BEST REVELATION
BEST EPISODE ADAPTATION
BEST DRAMA
BEST RELATIONSHIP
BEST ALTERNATE UNIVERSE/ELSEWORLDS/NEXT GENERATION
BEST ORIGINAL/SUPPORTING CHARACTER
BEST NEW AUTHOR
BEST OVERALL

Thank you in advance for volunteering! It's no fun without you!

Amber

Yep - I would love to present BNA. Thanks!

So far, we have one category spoken for - Best New Author.

We need more volunteers to make this happen!

Thanks!
Amber

If no one has offered privately, I'm willing to do the SUPER SHORT. Anyone who can write a good story in so few words deserves a Kerth.

Corrina.

Could you post a brief description of what a presenter does?

Sold, Female Hawk! You've got Best New Author and Best Super Short. That just leaves...everything else.

IolantheAlias (and anyone else interested), here's a brief description of a presenter's job. (It's painless, I promise! It might even be fun!)

1. Explain what the category you're presenting is all about. This is where you can be creative if you want, or you can just set it out straight. "The Best Short Story category covers any story from 11-50k in length." If you need help with the category descriptions, just let me know!

2. List the nominees. "This year's nominees for Best Short Story are *** by ***, *** by ***," etc.

3. Name the winner! The IRC gurus (i.e., Karen) will let you know who the winner is, you announce it. "And the winner is..."

4. That's it!

Any other questions? It's coming down to the wire now!

Does anyone have a link to previous ceremonies? I don't, otherwise I'd put it up for an example.

Thanks!
Amber

In the past year, my hard drive died, so I no longer have links to the IRC on my computer.

For anyone else needing help getting onto the IRC, here's the link

Instructions for IRC

I haven't used it yet this year, but my memory is that I used these instructions last year and they worked fine.

If they are out of date, could someone more knowledgable post updated instructions? Thanks.

Corrina.

It's on the Kerth Award site. Past Kerth Awards . The ceremony transcript links seem to be working for years 2007 - 2010.

Amber, I sent you a PM, but I can present a category or two. I'll take Best Relationship and Best AU/Elseworld, unless anyone else wants them. If that's case, I guess we can flip for it, alternate categories, or share. It's a big ceremony, after all.

B

Hope I'm not too late to participate... RL has been busy lately! I wouldn't mind presenting, but would like to do an early category since I'm in Germany and the awards will start at midnight my time. Any idea about how long they usually run? I'm assuming the IRC instructions posted by Female Hawk (thanks!) are still the relevant ones? Is there any way to do a test run beforehand?

Thank you BJ and mozartmaid! BJ, your quote adaptation made me laugh. And thank you for posting the link to previous ceremonies.

Mozartmaid, could you do Best Short Story? It will be the 2nd category presented. Also, if you'd like to test IRC, come visit the #loisclark channel on undernet. There will probably be someone there to talk to you.

That leaves the following categories unclaimed:
BEST MID-LENGTH
BEST WAFFY
BEST COMEDY
BEST REVELATION
BEST EPISODE ADAPTATION
BEST DRAMA
BEST ORIGINAL/SUPPORTING CHARACTER
BEST OVERALL

Thanks!
Amber

I could do Best Mid-Length and Best Comedy if no one else wants to!

Also, I wanted to be sure about the mIRC stuff because I haven't used it since last year's Kerths!

I got mIRC, got it set up, etc.

I use a "Random US Server" for the Undernet.

The channels are #KerthAwards and #KerthChat.

Is all this right?

The awards tend to run 2-3 hours, depending on netsplits, lag and such.

IolantheAlias, that's all correct. And if anyone would like to test out their IRC settings before the awards, as Amber mentioned, you can visit us in #loisclark any time. Just don't mind if we're idle. :-)

I'll open up the channels on Saturday well before the awards as well, if anyone wants to test there, as well.

IolantheAlias, thank you for picking up those two categories! Only 6 left, who wants one?

Thanks!
Amber

Ok, I think I got the IRC thing working... which server in Undernet do we need to connect to? NY? Also, please PM me about presenting! Not sure how this all works, but I'm game to participate!!

MM - it shouldn't matter which Undernet server - if one doesn't work for whatever reason it'll flip to another.

Karen and I are usually in #loisclark - say something if you come in and if one of us is around but quiet we'll pop over . Lisa's there fairly often too. [If you join but don't say anything, we don't know that you're there unless we're in the IRC window - mine flashes at me when you say something but not when you join/leave].

Carol

Don't know if I got the IRC working or not. Or maybe there really isn't anyone there. I used /join #loisclark. Is that still correct? (I know that's not for the kerths.) We quit using a password, didn't we?

Yes, that's correct. If you want to do it command-line, like I do, it's...


/server us.undernet.org (or /server eu.undernet.org, or pick a server from their website, undernet.org)

/join #loisclark


For the Kerths, it's

/join #kerthawards
/join #kerthchat

And, of course, /nick yourfavnamehere to change your name.

#lanekent is open every night with someone usually present from 6pm PST for anyone who would like to chat.

Nancy - I don't see where you logged in, but I had hiccups in the internet. You do need to make sure you're on an undernet server though. That could be it or if you happened to hit a netsplit karen and i weren't in or something...