The View from Valehaven Awards are returning to The Feast of the Leviathan this year!
TLDR:
- Nominations open on December 18th on RealmsNET
- Voting opens on January 1st on RealmsNET
- Three winners per category
- Award presentation at Feast of the Leviathan
- Categories listed at bottom of article
Details:
It finally feels like we were able to have a true, full-eventing year in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic, and now is the right time to do two important things.
First, bring back the much-missed View awards and their presentation at court at Feast of the Leviathan
Second, introduce some profound changes that better represent what these kinds of awards recognize in a community like the Realms.
The View Awards voting is split into two phases: the nominations and the votes.
Nominations:
Nominations open on December 18th and close on December 29th at 11:59PM.
Nominations and Voting will both require you to log in to your RealmsNET account and follow a link from the home page.
To nominate, fill in the events, items, and people that you think should be on the official View from Valehaven Awards Ballot.
There will be one blank provided per category but you can create more by clicking the (+) button to make multiple nominations per category. You may leave categories blank. You may also submit the form multiple times to nominate further entrants per category if you decide to add more later.
Voting:
Voting opens on January 1st and will close on January 8th at 11:59PM.
On the voting page you will see all of the nominations that were made for each category.
You may vote for up to THREE different events/items/people per category. Each of these votes counts equally.
Winners and Presentations:
The View Awards will be presented at The Feast of the Leviathan after Rhiassan Court.
The most significant change comes during the awards ceremony. Rather than a single event/item/person winning best in a category, there will be three winners per category each recognized with equal standing to one another.
So, for example, in past years a single one-day event won “Best One-Day Event” with a runner-up and an honorable mention. This year THREE one-day events will be equally recognized as an “Outstanding One-Day Event”.
This is a rather noteworthy shift from the way the View awards have run for over two decades, but it is an important one. The purpose of these awards, as always, is to give the community a way to say “thank you” to its members and event holding teams for going above and beyond in how they enrich our game. By recognizing multiple events as described above it extends our ability to show our appreciation and extend our camaraderie with each other without also having to rank each other’s contributions in contrast to one another.
We look forward to running these awards for the 2023 eventing season and we are honored to be able to present them this year at Feast of the Leviathan.
Find the complete list of voting categories below:
Event with Outstanding Special Effects
Event with Outstanding Props & Costumes
Event with Outstanding Night Quest
Non-Feast Event with Outstanding Food
Outstanding Feast Event
Outstanding Feast Dish
Outstanding Tournament Event
Outstanding Questing Event
Outstanding One-Day Event
Outstanding Weekend Event
Outstanding View from Valehaven Article
Outstanding View from Valehaven Series
Outstanding View from Valehaven work of Poetry, Song, or Fiction
Outstanding Realms Photograph (please include public link and accurate photographer information)
Outstanding Group for Staffing and NPCing
Outstanding Newbie
Outstanding Bard
Outstanding Craftsperson
Outstanding Photographer
Outstanding Artist
Outstanding Vendor
Outstandingly Dressed
Outstanding Feastocrat
Outstanding Servant or Kitchen Staff
Outstanding Combat Marshal
Outstanding Magic Marshal
Outstanding Trainer
Outstanding Mentor
Outstanding Roleplaying of Magic by a Spellcaster
Outstanding Roleplaying by a Player Character
Outstanding Roleplaying of a Single NPC Role
Outstanding Grunt NPC
Outstanding Honor in Combat
Outstanding in Helping Eventholders
Outstanding Role Model
Outstanding Contributions to the Realms
