Popular Post Jordan aka FltAdmlWolf Posted June 25, 2016 Popular Post Posted June 25, 2016 (edited) Welcome to our first June ceremony, marking our 20th anniversary of this awards ceremony tradition. While our group was founded in 1994, our first ceremony was held in 1996, bringing together the whole fleet for an In Character celebration. Since then, we’ve seen the addition of dozens of new awards, a transition to Out Of Character presentations, and in this latest change, a move from the traditional December presentation to June, to coincide with the yearly anniversary of our founding. It’s time to turn your heads to the red carpet as we begin this week-long event, where we’ll present to the fleet six categories of awards: Duty Post: Honoring the best simmer from each duty post Special: Honoring specific aspects of simming or OOC work Length of Service: Honoring members who have been with us for a year, all the way up to 10 years and more Staff: Honoring the work of our fleet’s staff members General/Ship awards: Honoring the members who won this year’s General, or ship-based awards Featured missions: Honoring the best missions and sims from this past year Also, in this thread, I want to introduce this year's Award's Facilitator, Fleet Captain Renos! The job of the Awards Facilitator is one that involves an incredible amount of work, from helping to pull together an Awards Committee (which reviews all the Duty Post, and Special nominees and selects the winners), to compiling all of the nominations and making sure they get to the right people, and then helping to manage all of the materials and assets required to make this ceremony a success! It's hard to imagine just how much copying, pasting, and collating is involved until you've got the mantle on your shoulders Renos (OOC: James) has been working tirelessly over the past few weeks to help bring everything together. 1,000 thanks to him for all that! 👏👏👏👏👏 We hope you've all donned your fanciest outfits – it's time to celebrate Edited June 28, 2016 by FltAdml. Wolf Adding featured missions day! 5
Renos Posted June 25, 2016 Posted June 25, 2016 To the community of UFOP: StarBase 118, Welcome to the fleetwide awards ceremony for 2016, or (as our characters know it) 2393! As the veterans among you will know, the award ceremony recognizes some of the most talented people in the history of the organization. With the annual awards having been moved from the end of the year to coincide with the fleet's 'birthday', we're celebrating 22 years of simming with style! Among this year's notables with respect to duty post awards includes the first time an Ensign has received The Order of the Valiant Heart (the counselor of the year), and recognition of a strategic operations officer with a duty post award. Our finest simmers continue to show that they can take unusual positions, posts outside the traditional rank structure, and more, and create memorable, award-winning characters when they do so! Here is a glimpse of some of the excitement to come... The special and staff awards, which are coming in the next few days also recognize a talented group of simmers and includes two new special awards. The first is The Luminary Award, which recognizes members between the rank of ensign to lieutenant, who show great promise in their future endeavours in the fleet. The second is Quark's Bar, which recognizes members who are regularly active on the forums, have been supportive and involved in conversations enhancing the overall forum experience. The Shuvalis Diamond of Recognition is a staff award for long-term achievement in leading the Publicity Team and before 2016, it also was awarded for achievement in leading the Training Team. This year, the T'Pau Cluster of Distinction was created to recognize achievement with the Training Team separately. For the first time since 2010 the Kathryn Janeway award will be presented to a very hardworking and deserving former captain, who was an absolute powerhouse and left an indelible legacy on our community history before retirement. The member service awards continue to grow, recognizing membership lengths of one, three, five, and ten years! A remarkable number of simmers have been around for such extended periods. Congratulations to everyone recognized in this ceremony, and a great many heartfelt thanks to all our members who submitted nominations and assisted with the awards process. -- James (Fleet Captain Renos)
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