Double Gamma nominations close March 31st

CALL FOR PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS FOR AUSTRALIAN DOCTOR WHO FAN AWARDS
The four Australian Doctor Who fan clubs request public submission into a new Australian/Australasian fan awards. It is suggested these are to be judged by one member from each club. The awards will cover the calendar year's productions, nominations will be accepted prior to March 31st of the following year. Suggested categories include Best Fanzine, Best Fiction, Best Non-Fiction, Best Fan Writer, Best Fan Art, Best Editor, Best Doctor, Best Assistant, Best Villain, Best Australian Website, Best Doctor Who-related podcast, Best Review/Critique, Special Award (Best Filk?, Best Drabble?, Best Video? Best Hair? Loudest Scream? Shortest Skirt? Best Package?). All submissions to secretary@sfsa.org.au. -----------------------------------------

Double Gamma Awards

1. Time
1.1 The awards will cover the preceding calendar year, with nominations accepted until March 31st of the present year.
1.2 Nominations are public, with call for nominating submissions to be made by each fan club (4.1) via word of mouth, publications and/or electronic means.

2. Judge
2.1 The awards will be judged by one non-interested party (3.1) appointed by each fan club (4.3).
2.2 In the event of a tie, the collator will hold the tie breaking vote, interested or not (3.1).

3. Interest
3.1 Interest is held be any person eligible for an award nomination; if any person is not eligible for an award by reason of no contribution then they will be deemed not-interested and eligible for nomination as a judge.

4. Clubs
4.1 The awards are to administered jointly by recognised (4.2) Australian clubs (4.3).
4.2 A club is deemed to be recognised if the balance (including tie breaker if need be) of existing clubs acknowledge them as a bona fide entity.
4.3 A club is to include any fan group, club (social or incorporated), collective or body as recognised (4.2).

5. Collator
5.1 In addition to a judge, one club will supply a collator.
5.2 The collator will present the judges with the voting options following March 31st (1.1), tally the votes, cast any tie breaking votes, resolve any differences, author/approve the certificates and present the certificates if possible.

6. Awards
6.1 The “Australian Doctor Who Fan” Award is to represented by a certificate, to be authored or approved by the collator.

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Contributors:
Martin Dunne <secretary@sfsa.org.au>.
Jamie Stidiford
Tim Aslat
Romana Branden
Tammy Vogel
Trevor Gensch

Double Gammas 2008

Best Artist: Neal Powell
Best Article: "5 Things", in SFSA 21/22
Best Editor: David Saunders
Best Fanzine: Strange Matter
Best Newsletter: The Wall of Lies
Best Issue: Sonic Screwdriver 163, October 2007

So, do we get a prize?


Thanks to all who contributed to Sonic Screwdriver during my tenure as editor. Without you, this award would not have been possible!

Special thanks for those who nominated and voted for this issue. I really didn't think I would win anything!

Andrew Saunders
Former Sonic Editor

You do indeed: certificates were handed out to winners who attended our AGM at Adelaide High School on Saturday; yours/Sonics/Sian's will be mailed out (the same DWCV address for the former two I trust?).

Part of the assumption behind the rules (public nominations with club judges) is that other clubs conform to our model--the copy of SS 167 we've just received goes to our public meetings where it gets read by as many members and even visitors to the club as possible, otherwise the call for public nominations is pointless through lack of comparison. If DWCV/DWCA/West Lodge don't do this then it defeats the democratic aim of the nomination process.

What's particularly adroit about this is the nominations for you and Sonic were not made in light of your resignation; the nominators were sufficiently ignorant of club politics that it was irrelevant. You won 'cos you deserved it on the merit of the issues alone.

If you do send it to the clubs address, I fear I will never see it. Could you please send it to the editorial address listed in that issue of Sonic. If you are unsure, please e-mail me.

I do not wish to advertise my address on this forum!

The Double Gammas were a qualified success this year, which I'm expecting to feed into next year's. Sian's sent me a bunch of info, reflected in the Wikipedia entry I've started <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Gammas>, if anyone has more information then please append! As that's fluid, here's the same list again on the SFSA site: <http://sfsa.org.au/news.php?cod=398>.

One thing I learned from the experience was that you need to define the categories. Traditionally there are awards for fanzine, editor, writer, artist, and one for special achievement. In the last years of the Supreme Council of Time Lords administering them (1998--2000) they added website. I suggested fanzine, fiction, non-fiction, writer, art, editor, Doctor, assistant, villain, Australian website, Doctor Who-related podcast, review/critique and achievement. I ended up with artist, article, editor, fanzine, newsletter and issue -- not a regular standard! I suggest dropping the best Doctor and such -- more of a poll really -- going back to fanzine, editor, writer, artist, achievement and adding website and newsletter (as WoL and Sonic Screwdriver both identify as such). A write in category would be acceptable.

It is now three years since I decided to attempt to reactivate these awards. My intention was that after one successful award I'd hand over collation to someone else. The obvious thing would be to seek DWCV's supply of a replacement. Either you guys can take it on for 2009, or I can do it one more year.

No they won't (end on the 31st), we're extending it to April 30 for 2009.

The SA club has performed its distribution today. Please consider our publications for nomination; they should be available at DWCV events.
Also sent out were certificates for 2008 winners.

Thanks to the DWCA, my lame design for the nominations form is available to download here: http://dwca.org.au/dg2009.pdf. Simply emailing the nominations, preferably within the categories, is quite acceptable.