image by greenchoco101
Concept
Fanpop's Got Talent (FGT) is an annual talent competition. In this contest, fanpop Users compete por submitting some material to the FGT spot that demonstrates some talent during a set submission period. After that period ends, the body of fanpop Users then vote on their topo, início choices, which are relayed to a panel of judges for the final decision. The winner gets kudos and a warm glowy feeling.
Judging
The duties of a judge are essentially to tally votes and provide feedback to participants - they do not actually do any judging beyond each casting their own vote. Instead, they are mais like moderators.
In 2009, there are four judges, continuing in the role from last year's pool of judges and judge alternates. They are:
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In 2008, there were three judges for Fanpop's Got Talent. They were picked at aleatório from a pool of nominees, with two alternates who would fill in for the judges if any were unable to fulfill their duties.
For the first Fanpop's Got Talent (2008), there were 9 nominees. The judges picked were:
* Saul_Mikoliunas
* claire-aka-bob
* amazondebs
The first alternate was:
* germany123
The segundo alternate was:
* cowgirlfromhell
original FGT logo, por aholic
Entering
Each fanpop User can enviar one (1) entry per FGT competition.
Entries must be posted to or linked to the FGT spot and titled as "<username>'s entry".
Each entry must have palavras chave and a description.
Each entry must also include the following in its keywords, at a minimum:
* your username
* the ano of your submission (to sort between future competitions)
* the talent(s) that are to be demonstrated
* "fanpop's got talent"
In addition, the following rules also apply to certain types of submissions:
Videos: any entries enviado as vídeos must be between one (1) and ten (10) minutos long.
Images: imagens posted must include proper credits. Image entries may include up to five (5) images, but multiple imagens must all be of the same subject.
Links: You may link to other content that demonstrates your talent (either on fanpop or elsewhere), but you are encouraged to post or link to new content, rather than something that is "old" to the users and judges.
Deadline
All submissions must be posted to the spot during the submission period. For FGT 2009, the submission period started at 00:00 GMT on 8 June 2009 and runs through 23:59 GMT on 4 July 2009.
image por aholic
For FGT 2008, the submission period started at 00:00 PT on 14 June 2008 and ran through 23:59 PT on 4 July 2008.
Voting
As entries are submitted, users may rate and comment on the submissions as usual. This does not in any way relate to the actual voting for the competition.
Voting begins immediately after the submission period ends, and lasts for one (1) week. An artigo listing all of the FGT entries will be posted shortly after the submission period closes, for easy reference.
When voting, each user may cast two votes: his/her first choice and his/her segundo choice. In voting, users are encouraged to vote solely on the basis of the entry and the talent(s) the participant has specified. When judging the talent(s), users should also consider the five following criteria:
1) Showmanship
2) Effort
3) Difficulty
4) Entertainment value
5) Originality
The votes are cast por sending a message with "FGT <year> voting" as the subject to the appropriate judge. For FGT 2009, the full details of voting will be revealed later.
For FGT 2008, the rules stated that which judge you send your vote to depended on the first character of YOUR username, as follows:
* If your username started with any number or the letters A - H, then your vote was sent to link
* If your username started with any letter from I to Q, then your vote was sent to link
* If your username started with any letter from R - Z, then your vote was sent to link
If you send your votes with the wrong subject line or to the wrong judge, it may get lost in the shuffle, so vote carefully!
Competition/determining a winner
The judges tally the votes of the users and announce first, segundo and third place winners after the week-long period of voting is completed. Those winners get the acclaim of their peers and maybe some graphic embellishments (personalized icons, for instance) as prizes, as well as that warm glowy sensation.
image por Saul_Mikoliunas
References
This information is available in the spot already, but I, at least, found it baffling trying to find it all and keep it straight in my head. So I've gathered it here. If I've missed anything or got something wrong, please let me know so I can (and will) correct it.
The sources used to compile this artigo are as follows:
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