Phoenix Roleplaying wins a Squiddie!

Dear all,

I am highly pleased to announce that Phoenix Roleplaying has won one of this year's three Ongoing Worlds Medals for Superior Online Roleplaying, also know as the Squiddies. We won the prize in the club category, one of three nominees. This is our citation:

"Through a diverse lineup of original and themed games, Phoenix Roleplaying showed in 2013 exactly how to exemplify excellence across a wide range and quantity of simulations.  Phoenix boasts a community high of 9 awards in the Simulation Cup and Tournament of Simulations over the last two years, which is clear evidence of their masterful balance of community and creativity.  Using a democratic leadership structure, they welcome role players of all shapes and sizes and encourage and inspire the imagination of hundreds.  Games are permitted to develop very organically, allowing players to establish deep connections with them and their fellow players.  Instead of getting bogged down in IT and other technicalities, Phoenix specializes in role-playing excellence and does it to the max."

Now we have won this, we will not be eligible to get another club award, but this is something we will never lose.

Congratulation to all of our members - this would not have been possible without you.

Silent Hunter
General Coordinator
Phoenix Roleplaying

Phoenix takes home five Simulation Cup awards

In this year’s Simulation Cup, hosted by Ongoing Worlds, Phoenix has won five awards. With the entering of nine sims, this means that over half of the participating Phoenix sims was awarded.

All types and genres of RPG’s could enter the competition and a panel of ten judges in total evaluates the competing sims by either reviewing them live or by reviewing transcripts of recent sim playings. For Phoenix participants this meant that they were asked to submit a link to the best thread of their sims, which were completed in 2012. The juries judged the sims based on originality, creativity, character development, prolificness (a combination of pace and member participation) and readability.

There were three different categories in which sims were categorized: email, message board (the type of sim that all the Phoenix sims fall under) and chat. There were no entrants in the chat category; there were 28 entrants for the email and message board categories.

Kvant won the Outstanding Firefly Sim award, The West Star the Outstanding Star Wars Sim award. Jericho won the Excellence in Originality award, Fighter Ops the Excellence in Creativity Award and Greenleaf Skyplex the Excellence in Character Development award. There were in total 17 awards given.

The total number of judges counted ten, among which was our own Robert Longtin. For the sake of impartiality he did not judge any Phoenix sims, nor did he judge any sims competing against Phoenix sims.

For more information about the 2012 Simulation Cup please visit: http://bit.ly/TGl9f1.

 

This article was originally published in Issue #4 of our newsletter 'The Burning Question'.

Second newsletter out

The second issue of the Phoenix newsletter has been released. Members should have received their broadcast email, but if not, you can click on the link.

First Phoenix Newsletter out!

The first Phoenix Newsletter has been released.

You can read it here.

September 2012 referendums

Members should have received emails regarding the September 2012 referendum, which is a re-run of the previous referendum declared void due to question issues.

Please check your spam folders if you have not received it or contact the General Coordinator, Silent Hunter

April Sim Strength Rankings

Google Docs link

An average of posts for February to April is below:

Average post numbers

Inactive sims area created

We now have all of our inactive sims down the bottom of the site, visible to all users. If you are interested in re-opening one, please post in the sim proposals thread.

Elections and Voting Coordinator Nominations Now Open

Nominations are now open for the position of EVC.

Please go here to nominate or accept/decline your nomination.

Award nominations announced

The following people have been nominated for the 2011 Annual awards:

Player of the Year

Amanda Bond
Kevin Diamond
Silent Hunter
dratliff
Robert Longtin
Jason Wypij
Jason Andersen

Sim of the Year

Atlantis
Jericho
The West Star
Fighter Ops
Cydonia
Greenleaf Skyplex
Elemental
Accipter

Sim Leader/ASL of the Year

Kevin Diamond
Nick Buchanan
Jason Andersen
Silent Hunter
Amanda Bond
Mischa Brendel
Dawn 'Avalon McManus' Castell
Ash Plom

[Edit: Euan Reid realised he was ineligible for this award and so was withdrawn at his own request]

GM of the Year

Paul Baker
Amanda Bond
Silent Hunter
Jason Andersen
Nick Buchanan
Aidan Fal
William Smith
Deborah Leighton Plom

The committee are now considering the nominations and will announce the awards in due course.

Awards reminder

Just to remind everyone that you have only seven or so days left to nominate people for our annual awards:

Go here to do so.

Award nominations for 2011 now open!

We're holding our annual awards "bash" soon and we're looking for nominations.

Please go here to say you think should win the four awards.

Amanda Bond wins Banner Design contest!

Amanda Bond was today announced as the winner of our banner design competition - you can see her entry above.

The new logo has already been integrated into our blog banner alongside the Buccaneer bomber that is this blog's only symbol and will soon be added to the site proper.

Congratulations, Amanda!