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Hetalia Best Of

Hello everybody.

I'm interested in making an Hetalia best of. A contest where the fandom votes for the best of Hetalia, in both Canon and Fanon.
Before making it, I wish to know if people are actually interested in the whole idea.
More info under the cut!

I mentioned the idea a few days ago on my tumblr, but must not have caught enough attention because I'm non existent at tumblr.
You can see the post here:
http://latnien.tumblr.com/post/26387906525

I've been told this hasn't been done before in big scale, so I decided to continue with the idea.
Basically the fandom would nominate material for a category and depending on the amount of entries we can do knock out rounds or something similar (That's why I'm posting here, you guys can tell me your ideas.)

The contest would separate Canon and Fanon (Fics to be exact). Having categories for each. I like the idea of adding a Fanart category too, but I know some artists can be, hm, touchy about such type of stuff. You guys tell me what you think.

The concept is to make the best of the best being know in the fandom.

For example Canon would have this sub-categories:

Best Comic.

Best Event.

Best Official Art.

Best Animated Comic.

Most liked Male Character.

Most liked Female Character.

Most liked Character.

Best Character Introduction.

Best parody/joke.

Best outfit.

Fics:

Best Fanfic.

Best Romance Fanfic.

Best Comedy Fanfic.

Best Historical Fanfic.

Best Drama/Angst Fanfic.

Best Joke in a Fanfic.

Best Kiss.

Best Sex Scene

Best Declaration of Love.

Best Hero in Action fic.

Best Villain in Action fic.

If we were to add the Fanart category too:

Best Fanart.

Best Pairing Fanart.

Best Historical related Fanart.

Best Cultural Related Fanart (As in fanart with traditional clothing.)

Best Non-Canon comic.

Best Doujin.

Of course, these are the ideas I thought and you guys can throw more ideas.

I offer to make a site for this event. I'm a web designer and I don't mind doing space for something like this, I have a lot of space on my host.
I can code the whole page and make submits and polls. And I can get the domain for free.

So, is anybody interested in this idea?
Someone wants to help maybe?
Any idea, concept or something that can be added?

I really wish we can do this, seems like a good chance to gather the fandom together again and regain some interest!

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I'd be interested.

Suggestion regarding fanfiction/fanart things:
It might be helpful to offer additional categories based on character grouping. "Best overall", and then "best featuring X nation group" or something.

Because I suspect that otherwise, a lot of it will feature the same groups of characters again and again.
Though I guess it would be difficult to decide how to divide everyone up.

Oh, you are right.
Kind of like:
Axis, Allies, Nordics, Balkans and so?

Yes, that's exactly it!
Might be tricky, since some can fit into more than one group, though.

Hm, we can make it so that an entry can only participate in one category?

That might work. So, Germany would be in Axis grouping, but not in Germanics grouping, that kind of thing, right?

Nope.
Say for fanart;
And image featuring the axis can participate in that category, but not in say Germany's or Italy's.

Ohh, I see, now I get it. Makes sense enough!

Yep.
Still tricky.
Can that image participate in the best of overall?
OR
Instead of making it apart we can take the winners of each category and make those compete for the title.

Edited 2012-07-07 02:17 (UTC)

I'd love to participate in something like that. If it has its own website, it would make it a lot easier to share ideas and vote on the categories. I think it's a great idea.

This sounds like fun, but it has to be managed carefully because it has a lot of potential for wank. One of my old fandoms had annual fanfiction awards, and there were always hurt feelings when someone didn't win and accusations of "well, that fanfic only won because it had a popular pairing even though this and that fanfic were actually better!"

Hey, why not? Just be careful, though, I was once part of a website that hosted awards but soon they gave up. :P However, I'd be willing to join or participate! :)

Ahhh, this is a brilliant idea!

To add on to what the user above said, though, I'm personally voting that we leave the fanon side of it out, and only nominate canon stuff.

Or maybe replace fanon with fandom? Like, "most hilarious fandom moment", "most heartwarming fandom moment", and so on. 'Cause I don't know about anyone else, but I think we definitely had a lot of memorable moments during the '11 Christmas event!

+ 1 definitely! :)

I disagree. I would avoid anything that has got to do with users itself, unless they are either artists or writers.
Second, not everybody has participated in every moment the fandom has had, thus they cannot vote for something they cannot understand why people vote it. Quite different from comics, fics or art, where they can read or see what's being voted.
Fandom moments are purely feeling driven, it's not possible to just relate to what happened and hope for others to understand it, adding to the fact that each user lives their moment their own way.

Edited 2012-07-07 14:03 (UTC)

Ah, that's a good point, actually. ^^;
I'd say just stick to canon stuff, then. Because with fan works there's still room for a lot of room for hurt and wank and it'd be better to try and keep the thing mostly positive if possible. :'D

I really want to try a way to include.
Probably less categories and their names differently worded.

One way to avoid wank with the fanon categories would be to create different categories for the most popular pairings and have one category that includes all rarer pairings. Maybe somehting like this:

Best USUK
Best GerIta
Best Spamano
Best FrUK
Best Romance Fic (other pairings)

Otherwise someone is definitely going to complain about how, say, a Sweden/Taiwan fic has no chance no matter how good it is because the popular pairings have more fans who will vote for fics with them.

Yes, probably we will have to do that.
I would add a few more more pop pairings.
Then something like Yuri category can be possible hm.

I understand what you mean, and I haven't even taken part in any big event so far, but since some of them have been very participated, that would still be fun to remember them. I mean, I know some have been left out because they weren't part of the fandom yet or for whatever reason, but that "best of" wouldn't be judging anyone, just.. you know, it would show which ones were the most participated events?

As for the fanworks, it's true that almost everyone can see the fanarts (even though it's useless to day that artists who use pixiv, for example, have many more chances to have their works seen by others) but what about the fanfictions? Not everyone can write in English and not everyone can read a whole story in English either. It would mean (to me at least) leaving out a very big part of the fandom - and you surely can't put a category for every language, because that would become too big, and anyway the people taking part in any non-english fandom would barely take part to the voting here - at least this is my guess.
You could still hold it only for the written-in-English fanfictions, but then it wouldn't be a real best of, at least in my opinion.

Besides, I agree with

kahlanaisling when they say it would be a bit intimidating.

It's not whats being judged, its how you judged it.

Now, I cannot hope to include every single member of the fandom, it's impossible.
I can hope to include the most.
And most of the fandom can speak english.
There are three things this type of event cannot avoid, not only this event but just think about anything where people vote.
1. Someone will get hurt with the results.
2. Someone will fight over the results.
3. Someone will be left aside.
What I'm aiming is not to avoid them, but to make the # of people in those 3 less than possible, by:
Making it the most friendly possible.
Wording the categories in a friendly way.
Making it so people feel comfortable with the whole event.
Making it accessible. (that's why it will be on a separated website)

I'm all for it ^_^

But what do you mean by "Best character introduction"?

And might I suggest Best Character Song and Best Version of MKC and HFP for Canon categories?

Totally!
Didn't think of those ones!

&
For example how India, Romania, Macao and Crocia appeared. (Out of Thin air)

Okay I was wondering because like you said, most characters just appeared out of thin air or all appeared at once at the meeting of the world comic ~~or remained in stasis as an entry on Hima's blog until they appear out of thin air. or on a friggen map like NZ~~

No one really had an "Introduction"

hmmm... well then... I KNOW WHO I'M VOTING FOR!!!!

I second the idea of leaving fandom out of it; as much as we love others in the fandom, it's simply too big and could cause a lot of drama.

Also: This would be really intimidating to some people.

In an old fandom I was part of there were people who held votes and such every year and (while they were also stuck-up, elitist jerks) it made it seem as if there was some elite organization judging everything from afar -- and not in a positive way. While it gave me personally something to aspire to, I'm a competitive person, and someone young and new to the fandom might find it nerve-wracking to post fanworks and know that there's a possibility someone running this might come across it.

On the other hand, participation is completely optional and fan-driven, and I think that if we're careful, we could pull it off.

I would leave Canonworks out of it, though. It just feels a little wrong to me, I can't quite explain it.

Edited 2012-07-07 14:01 (UTC)

That's why submissions are going to be on the site this is going to be made.
Only one submit x category.
And polls won't show the results until the end of it.
Is to that.
And of course, everybody will able to vote for everything, once. And votes will only reflect numbers, not who voted. (I'm going to block proxies from being usable.)

ALSO, and I was just discussing this with a few friends:

The problem with fanworks awards is that there are a few authors, such as George DeValier and Glassamilk, who would win everything simply because of popularity. It doesn't matter if there are better writers out there (which I firmly believe there are), the names people recognize are more likely to win. That makes it rather unfair.

And I've figured out why I don't think Canon is a good category to include. There's already too much wank from sub vs dub and anime vs manga that an award would make one of them inherently better, which is anything but true.

Edited 2012-07-07 14:26 (UTC)

omg those two.
Interesting, that gives me the idea of leaving out the writer's name and just putting the fic name (with a link, of course.)
It will avoid people voting without checking them, at least.

AO3 has an Anonymous Posting option -- maybe we could get authors' permission to repost their works anonymously, deleting them after the event is over?

Won't work.
You can just google the first phrase and the fic will appear.

We can make it so an author can only participate once.
There we go.

I'm not going to differentiate between dub and sub...
That's why the only category the anime appears is "Best animated comic."
We can include the characters songs, but anime doesn't really allow something like more categories.
So no, no "Best voice" or stuff.
Seems silly and not really related to the series itself, but more like
"Hey, who got the best actor."
and yeah, nah.

Edited 2012-07-07 14:40 (UTC)

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