The Stalag 13 Gazette
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SPECIAL EDITION
Now announcing the winners of the Papa Bear Awards!
The Best of the Best of 10 Years Hogan's Heroes Fanfiction
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11 years of Papa Bear Awards is quite a feat in the history of Hogan's Heroes fanfiction. (Don't thank me – I didn't start it!)
A feat that merits being remembered.
For example by having the 10 winning stories from the past compete against each other, to see which of these 10 are our favourites today.
14 people joined in this quest, making sure that each story got rated by at least 6 people.
And I have to say, I found the outcome rather surprising!
But here you are: the Golden Oldies that we – anno 2013 – consider to be
The Best of the Best of Hogan's Heroes Fanfiction!
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Gold:
THE STALAG 13 GAZETTE
by Snooky-9093 (editor)
and a whole bunch of other contributors
PBA Winner of 2010
average grade: 8.87
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Silver:
Common Enemies, Uncommon Friends
by Hotcorner
PBA Winner of 2007
average grade: 8.62
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Bronze:
Return of the Informer
by Sgt. Moffitt
PBA Winner of 2012
average grade: 8.54
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Well, that's all for now, folks!
Congratulations to all the winners, as well as to all the nominees who put up such a good fight.
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A great thank you, too, to everyone who sent in their nominations and their votes – without you guys, there wouldn't be a PBA!
And it's great to see so much enthusiasm, year after year after year,
and every time with new people joining in!
Another great thank you to Sgt. Moffitt, mmwaveprincess, ColHogan, FloatingPizza, All-things,
and reserve crew Crystal Rose of Pollux,
who made this fun competition possible this year with their invaluable assistance.
And of course our helpful PBA committee:
Snooky-9093, jodm, Marie1964 and (sort of, unofficially) Sgt. Moffitt –
it's been fairly quiet this year, but you were there whenever I needed a soundboard!
Thank you so much for your input!
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Then an important request:
Can all the winners please report by email to papabearawards at yahoo dotcom
in order to get their award(s) sent out?
They will be designed this year by All-things and FloatingPizza,
and I for one am certainly looking forward to see what their creative minds come up with!
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The winning stories (gold, silver and bronze!) will shortly be included in the ffnet community with the PBA winners from the past years.
They will some time in the foreseeable future be listed on the PBA website as well, but I can't promise you when I'll get around to do that ;-)
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So now we're back to happily reading. And writing.
Thank you all for your infectious enthusiasm, and I hope to see your new stories, nominations and votes again next time around!
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Your librarian,
konarciq
(who would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who voted for her work!)
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And what happened to Klink and Schultz and Schwanzenstolz?
Well, Klink and Schultz obviously returned to Stalag 13 - wherever it may be - and took Hogan with them.
For if they didn't, what would we have to write about?
Fortunately, thanks to Sgt. Moffitt, Captain Gruber has finally gotten his own story,
so hopefully he won't be so nasty towards the prisoners anymore.
As for Schwanzenstolz - I really don't know.
But I'm inclined to believe that he, too, became a valuable asset to the Allied war effort in one way or another.
After all, eventually all the inherently good guys do - no matter their nationality :-)