Welcome to the very first Rio Academy Awards for the year 2012!
This has been brought to you by the combined efforts of many distinguished authors on this site, such as therobotchicken, holospartoi258, and Rapture at Sea. Three additional authors also contributed to this project, BlitzerStar, WordsPark37, and AgtMulder99.
Our goal is to use the system and ideals of the real life Academy Awards and re-create it in FanFiction. In other words, to bring the Oscars to Rio.
This is how this would work. Voters would be able to vote for almost ANY story on the Rio FanFiction section for any award out of the 50 total. (See Categories) The votes would then be counted, and the top five for each category will be announced. The voters would then have a second chance to vote, out of the five, and the votes for those will be counted. The final winners would then be announced in a chat room LIVE, on this story, and on this profile. (See Voting for more info)
The award for winning a Jesse is more bragging rights than an actual award. However, if possible, we will create ACII banters that a winner could post on their profile. If not, we may use Photoshop and give links to the pictures. The winners will also be announced to the public, giving more publicity to the authors and their stories.
I hear you ask, when is this starting? Actually, right now! Voting has February 4th, and will end on February 22th.
So what are you waiting for? Go to the next chapter to see how to vote for your favorite stories!
The above information and more can be found on our profile, The Jesse Academy Awards, as well.