"We Need A Hero"

Winners!

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:33:59 GMT

Yay, winners! Yay, everyone! Thanks for playing!

So many of these categories were so close (there was very nearly a four-way tie in the angst category), and there were a lot of ties.

Story info (rating, characters, etc.) can be found in the nominations post.

You'll notice that there are winners for categories that had no nominations. We accept write-in votes, apparently. This wasn't something that came up before the last day of voting, and hadn't occurred to either of us before that.

This is the announcement post. There will be banners coming in the next week or two (we hope).

Thank you everyone for participating! You've made this so much fun for us, and you've put together an amazing list of stories to choose from.

Best Mighty Morphin Story: Til Death by Cheryl Roberts **write in vote**

Best Zeo Story: Earthseige by Rain Fletcher

Best Turbo Story: Personality Conflicts by Ellen Brand **write in vote**

Best Space Story

1st Place: First Star by starandrea (Starhawk)

2nd Place: TIE!

1. A Mirror of Dark Glass by SilvorMoon

2. Scenes from a Mauling by NE Shaw

4th Place: Time by weirdweb

5th Place: TIE!

1. Flaws by yellowstar

2. Superhero by Just Jill

Best Lost Galaxy Story: The Blue-Haired Girl by Jeremy Ray Logsdon

Best Lightspeed Rescue Story: Crazy Is My Middle Name by Higuchimon (cynthia_harrell) **write in vote**

Best Time Force Story

1st Place: Red Fire by cmar_wingnut (cmar)

2nd Place: Rain by Satori Blackthorn

Best Wild Force Story

1st Place: Change of Hearts by cmar (cmar_wingnut)

2nd Place: Undeniable by Funky In Fishnet (funkyinfishnet)

Best Ninja Storm Story

1st Place: Building Family by EstiRose and tptigger

2nd Place: Hidden Love by Sreym

3rd Place: Shades of Red by MzDany

4th Place: Perfect Blue by Nalanzu

Best Dino Thunder Story: Fight After Fight by starandrea (Starhawk)

Best SPD Story

1st Place: Holidays at SPD by purplestripe66

2nd Place: Distorted Within by foggynite

3rd Place Restless Nights by Weesta

Best Mystic Force Story

1st Place: Soundtrack by SilverCaladan

2nd Place: Welcome Home by funkyinfishnet (Funky In Fishnet)

Best Operation Overdrive Story: Imitation of Life: Five Questions Mack Never Asked by cmar (cmar_wingnut)

Best Short Story

1st Place: Culture Shock by Daylight

2nd Place: Can't Change The Past by M.L. Shards

3rd Place: TIE!

1. Forged in Fire, Tempered in Ice by Ellen Brand

2. Rebirth by walutahanga

Best Incomplete Story

1st Place: Impending Darkness by o0-Key-0o

2nd Place: Down for the Count by JakiBlue

3rd Place: TIE!

1. Affirmations by Rachel Lynn

2. Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume

3. Journey On by Lady Kimiko

Best Long Form Chapter Story

1st Place: TIE!

1. Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume

2. Keys to the Universe by Didi

Best Short Form Chapter Story: Wolf AU by scifislasher **write in vote**

Best Alternate Universe Story

1st Place: Girls by starandrea

2nd Place: Constellations by Hagar

3rd Place: TIE!

1. Veritas by Sierra Nichole

2. Warlock AU by foggynite

Best Crossover Story (both inter-season PR crossovers and outside crossovers)

1st Place: TIE!

1. Heroes Don't Always Wear Spandex by wild_force71

2. Toasted by cmar (cmar_wingnut)

3rd Place: Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume

4th Place: Cube by MrQuinn

Best Original Character Story

1st Place: Superhero by Just Jill

2nd Place: TIE!

1. Echos of Evil by MzDany

2. Serenity by DarkHonda

Best Power Ranger/Original Character Couple: Ninjas and Heroes by MzDany

Best Power Ranger Couple

1st Place: First Blood by starandrea (Starhawk)

2nd Place: Courtship Rituals by Higuchimon (cynthia_harrell)

Best Portrayal of a Frienship

1st Place: TIE!

1. Forget Myself by Arrowned

2. Soundtrack by SilverCaladan (silvercaladan)

3rd Place: Lean On Me by silvergalaxysg

4th Place: Fear by Aria Fox

5th Place: Five ways Cole cheered Taylor up by wild_force71

Best Portrayal of a Power Ranger

1st Place: TIE!

1. Of Color Wheels and McDonald's by EvilSalmon1

2. Waves by MagpieDreamer (gnimaerd)

3rd Place: Crazy Is My Middle Name by Higuchimon (cynthia_harrell)

Best Author

1st Place: Starhawk (starandrea)

2nd Place: cmar (cmar_wingnut)

3rd Place: Tsukino Akume

4th Place: foggynite

5th Place: TIE!

1. Higuchimon (cynthia_harrell)

2. Mouse

3. tptigger

Best Romance

1st Place: Conversations at 3 am by Panache (cypanache)

2nd Place: First Blood by starandrea (Starhawk)

3rd Place: More Than Friends And Brothers by Dagmar Buse (germankitty)

4th Place: TIE!

1. Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume

2. Love Will Find a Way by Arwennicole

3. Undeniable by Funky In Fishnet (funkyinfishnet)

Best Adult Romance

1st Place: The Christmas Bondage Story by starandrea ( Starhawk)

2nd Place: The Long Journey Home by Dagmar Buse (germankitty)

3rd Place: Bonds that Last by Honour Nature

Best Humor

1st Place: Talk Like A Pirate Day by JDPhoenix

2nd Place: TIE!

1. Green Sheep by BlueNovember

2. Turbo: A Power Rangers Parody by Joe Rovang

4th Place: TIE!

1. Ailing Rangers by Daylight

2. Special Recipe by walutahanga

5th Place: The Might Silver Ranger by DarkHonda

Best Angst

1st Place: Hush by kikos_ai

2nd Place: Turn Around by Nalanzu

3rd Place: TIE!

1. The Glass by Hope Strong

2. Lean On Me by silvergalaxysg

Best Reviewer

1st Place: funkyinfishnet (Funky In Fishnet)

2nd Place: Jusea Peterson

3rd Place: purplestripe66

Voting is now over

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:00:39 GMT

Voting is now over. We'll announce the winners as soon as we have the votes counted, and banners will be available hopefully within a week.

Thanks so much to everyone who participated!

Deadline approaching

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:22:36 GMT

Don't forget, voting ends this Friday at midnight (PST). Please be sure to leave your votes in this post. Remember, every vote counts!

Thank you so much to those of you who have already participated, your votes are greatly appreciated!

Deadline to vote extended

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:50:45 GMT

Since there are a vast amount of stories to go through and catch up on and not nearly enough time to read on them all it seems (at least for me I know, school's keeping me extremely busy this week and next), we're giving you an extra week to catch up and submit your votes over in this post. The deadline for voting on the nominees is being extended to 11:59 PM PST, March 7, 2008.

Happy reading! And voting! ^_^

The nominees (and a few winners)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:32:19 GMT

Whew. Okay, a couple of things.

1. Please only vote once. How do you vote? You comment to this post with your selections. Comments to this post are screened. You may vote anon or not, whichever you prefer. Edit for clarification: "Please only vote once" in this case means one vote per category, and please send in all of your votes at one time. You can vote for as many or as few categories as you'd like.

2. Try to keep this post for voting only. If I've borked the links, the html, the character information, or forgotten to include something that should be there, please do tell me, but in some other post.

3. Some nominees were nominated under more than one name. I've tried to include both names throughout the post.

4. Voting ends at 11:59 PM PST, March 7, 2008.

5. You can start voting immediately if you'd like, but we encourage you to take the time to read as many of the nominated stories as you can. Some of them are absolutely beautiful.

6. Have fun!

General Categories

~~Best Mighty Morphin Story~~

Best Zeo Story: Earthseige by Rain Fletcher (T)

~~Best Turbo Story~~

Best Space Story

1. A Mirror of Dark Glass by SilvorMoon (K+)

2. Scenes from a Mauling by NE Shaw (T)

3. Superhero by Just Jill (T)

4. Time by weirdweb

5. Flaws by yellowstar (T)

6. First Star by starandrea (Starhawk) (T)

Best Lost Galaxy Story: The Blue-Haired Girl by Jeremy Ray Logsdon (Leo/OC, K+)

~~Best Lightspeed Rescue Story~~

Best Time Force Story

1. Rain by Satori Blackthorn (Wes/Jen, T)

2. Red Fire by cmar_wingnut (cmar) (Wes/Eric, M)

Best Wild Force Story

1. Undeniable by Funky In Fishnet (funkyinfishnet) (Merrick/Shayla, K)

2. Change of Hearts by cmar (cmar_wingnut) (K+)

Best Ninja Storm Story

1. Shades of Red by MzDany (T)

2. Building Family by EstiRose and tptigger (T)

3. Perfect Blue by Nalanzu

4. Hidden Love by Sreym (Hunter/Dustin, M)

Best Dino Thunder Story: Fight After Fight by starandrea (Starhawk)

Best SPD Story

1. Holidays at SPD by purplestripe66 (K)

2. Distorted Within by foggynite (Jack/Sky, T)

3. Restless Nights by Weesta (K+)

Best Mystic Force Story

1. Soundtrack by SilverCaladan (T)

2. Welcome Home by funkyinfishnet (Funky In Fishnet) (Madison/Nick, K)

Best Operation Overdrive Story: Imitation of Life: Five Questions Mack Never Asked by cmar (cmar_wingnut) (K+)

Additional Categories

Best Short Story

1. Can't Change The Past by M.L. Shards (K)

2. Rebirth by walutahanga (T)

3. Culture Shock by Daylight (K)

4. Forged in Fire, Tempered in Ice by Ellen Brand (K+)

Best Incomplete Story

1. Impending Darkness by o0-Key-0o (some Tommy/Kim, T)

2. Journey On by Lady Kimiko (T)

3. Down for the Count by JakiBlue (T)

4. Affirmations by Rachel Lynn (Cassie/Phantom, Andros/Ashley, T)

5. Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume (T)

Best Long Form Chapter Story

1. Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume (T)

2. Keys to the Universe by Didi (T)

~~Best Short Form Chapter Story:~~

Best Alternate Universe Story

1. Constellations by Hagar (some Shane/Hunter, T)

2. Veritas by Sierra Nichole (M)

3. Girls by starandrea (T)

4. Warlock AU by foggynite (Cam/Hunter, M)

Best Crossover Story (both inter-season PR crossovers and outside crossovers)

1. Cube by MrQuinn (K+)

2. Toasted by cmar (cmar_wingnut) (K+)

3. Heroes Don't Always Wear Spandex by wild_force71 (M)

4. Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume (T)

Best Original Character Story

1. Serenity by DarkHonda (T)

2. Echos of Evil by MzDany (T)

3. Superhero by Just Jill (T)

Best Power Ranger/Original Character Couple: Ninjas and Heroes by MzDany (Shane/OC, T)

Best Power Ranger Couple

1. Courtship Rituals by Higuchimon (cynthia_harrell) (Andros/Ashley, K+)

2. First Blood by starandrea (Starhawk) (Andros/Ashley/Zhane, T)

Best Portrayal of a Frienship

1. Forget Myself by Arrowned (Chip and Vida, K+)

2. Fear by Aria Fox (Jack and Z, K)

3. Lean On Me by silvergalaxysg (Andros and Zhane, K+)

4. Soundtrack by SilverCaladan (silvercaladan) (Vida and Maddie, T)

5. Five ways Cole cheered Taylor up by wild_force71 (Cole and Taylor, K+)

Best Portrayal of a Power Ranger

1. Of Color Wheels and McDonald's by EvilSalmon1 (Dustin, K)

2. Waves by MagpieDreamer (gnimaerd) (Kat and Boom, K)

3. Crazy Is My Middle Name by Higuchimon (cynthia_harrell) (Ryan and Kelsey, T)

Best Author

1. Mouse

2. tptigger

3. Starhawk (starandrea)

4. cmar (cmar_wingnut)

5. Higuchimon (cynthia_harrell)

6. Tsukino Akume

7. foggynite

Best Romance

1. Love Will Find a Way by Arwennicole (Andros/Ashley, T)

2. More Than Friends And Brothers by Dagmar Buse (germankitty) (Tommy/Jason, M)

3. First Blood by starandrea (Starhawk) (Andros/Ashley/Zhane/Kerone, T)

4. Undeniable by Funky In Fishnet (funkyinfishnet) (Merrick/Shayla, K)

5. Conversations at 3 am by Panache (cypanache) (Tommy/Kat/Billy, K+)

6. Fade to Darkness: Darkness Calling by Tsukino Akume (T)

Best Adult Romance

1. The Long Journey Home by Dagmar Buse (germankitty) (Tommy/Jason, NC-17)

2. The Christmas Bondage Story by starandrea ( Starhawk) (Cam/Hunter, R)

3. Bonds that Last by Honour Nature (Andros/Ashley/Zhane, M)

Best Humor

1. Special Recipe by walutahanga (K+)

2. Talk Like A Pirate Day by JDPhoenix (K)

3. Green Sheep by BlueNovember (K+)

4. Turbo: A Power Rangers Parody by Joe Rovang (T)

5. Ailing Rangers by Daylight (K)

6. The Might Silver Ranger by DarkHonda (K+)

Best Angst

1. The Glass by Hope Strong (K+)

2. Lean On Me by silvergalaxysg (K+)

3. Turn Around by Nalanzu (Cam/Hunter, K+)

4. Hush by kikos_ai

Best Reviewer

1. Jusea Peterson

2. funkyinfishnet (Funky In Fishnet)

3. purplestripe66

And that's it

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:03:16 GMT

Nominations are now closed. The nominees will be up sometime today. You can start voting immediately, but we'd encourage you to read as many stories as you can--there are some really good ones. Thanks for your participation!

One last reminder

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:26:15 GMT

Tomorrow is the last day for nominations. If you haven't submitted any and you're planning to, you've got until 11:59 on Friday (Pacific Time). Voting will open as soon as the nominees are announced. We'll try to have a post with the nominees up sometime on Saturday. Thanks!

Just a reminder

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:04:59 GMT

The deadline for nominations is February 15, a week from today. Have a good weekend! :)

Nominations

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:35:28 GMT

Nominations go here. The list of categories is here.

Remember the guidelines listed here.

Currently, you may nominate as many stories/authors as you like. You may nominate more than once per category. If we discover that this doesn't work out, for whatever reason, we'll change this. This community accepts anon comments, so if you don't have a LiveJournal or if you would rather nominate anonymously, that's absolutely doable.

All comments for this post are now screened. They will not be unscreened. No personal contact information left in a comment to this post will be shared.

Have fun!

Rules and Guidelines

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:43:24 GMT

Rules and Guidelines for Nominations (subject to change)

1. Yes, we allow slash. Nominate away! :)

2. Please don't nominate yourself.

3. When nominating, please include the following details: The title and rating of the story; the author's name and a way to contact them (a link to their fanfiction.net profile or story is sufficient); your name and a way to contact you if you comment anonymously (comments to the nomination post are now screened, and we won't be making any of that contact information public); the category that you are nominating the story under; and a working link to the actual story. The link is important.

4. If nominating a romance or friendship story, please list the characters or pairings (or threesome). If there are several romantic relationships, pick the main one or two.

5. If nominating a story archived on LiveJournal, please don't nominate anything not posted publicly.

6. Anything goes in terms of ratings. We've made an "Adult Romance" category for stories archived on sites that have a minimum age requirement (ie AdultFanFiction.net), not because we don't like sex but because we might not all be 18.

7. You don't need a LiveJournal in order to participate. We've set the community to accept anon comments.

8. As we're the ones running the awards, we (challon86/Challon86 and phantom_blue/Phantom Rogue) cannot be nominated for awards.

If you object to any of these rules or would like clarification, post here.

Hello all!

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:10:05 GMT

Hello and welcome to our shiny new "We Need A Hero" Power Ranger Fanfiction Awards community. I am challon86 and my lovely comrade and co-mod for this community is phantom_blue . She has already posted a general post explaining what the community is and I'm here to post the categories that you can nominate for.

General Categories
Best Mighty Morphin Story
Best Zeo Story
Best Turbo Story
Best Space Story
Best Lost Galaxy Story
Best Lightspeed Rescue Story
Best Time Force Story
Best Wild Force Story
Best Ninja Storm Story
Best Dino Thunder Story
Best SPD Story
Best Mystic Force Story
Best Operation Overdrive Story

Additional Categories
Best Short Story
Best Incomplete Story
Best Long Form Chapter Story
Best Short Form Chapter Story
Best Alternate Universe Story
Best Crossover Story
Best Original Character Story
Best Power Ranger/Original Character Couple
Best Ranger Couple
Best Portrayal of Friendship
Best Portrayal of a Power Ranger
Best Author
Best Romance
Best Adult Romance
Best Humor
Best Angst
Best Reviewer

The tenative Deadline for Nominations is February 15. There will be a post with the rules and guidelines for nominating to come. Got an idea for a category that we don't have on the list? Make your suggestions here.

Welcome post!

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:07:50 GMT

Welcome to pr_heroes! I'm phantom_blue and my lovely co-mod is challon86. Cross your fingers and hope that we don't break the shiny new comm.

If you're unfamiliar with the basic idea of fanfiction awards, you guys nominate your favorite stories and then vote for them. Separate posts with the rules and categories will be up soon; in the meantime, ask all your questions here.

At the moment, the deadline for nominations is set for February 15. Voting will be until February 29, and we hope to have the winners up soon after that.