The Hawky Awards

This ceremony is for the month of May 2012. This is the first award ceremony for the year of 2012. Last year was rough for The Awards, but hopefully with the rise of users thanks to Korra, this ceremony will be more successful than the previous.

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This ceremony will not have as many open categories as usual, however, more nominees will be allowed per category. Instead of the normal 3 allowed nominees, this ceremony will nominate 5 users per category.

New to The Awards?

Attention to those users that are new to The Awards, before you begin participation, please familiarize yourself with the rules, and how The Awards work. You can find all the information you need to get ready to participate here. Things can get quite confusing during a ceremony, so it helps if every user that participates knows what they're doing, but it's not difficult to learn at all.

If you've won a Hawky Award, or a Bowl of Pabu, you have permission to place the template on your user page, but on your user page only. Please do not think that if you've won an award that you can place the template anywhere you'd wish, I repeat myself, an admin will be notified, and in addition you will receive not one, not two, but three Hawky Strikes, grounding you to the ineligibility period.

Rules

• No nominating yourself.
  If a user is caught nominating themselves, that user will have their right to be nominated for that month taken away. If that user gets three strikes, by getting caught nominating themselves three times, their right to be nominated will be taken away for a period of six award ceremonies.
• Anonymous Users cannot be nominated.
  This is not because of a prejudice against anons, it's because of the fact that they will not be able to receive the award template that should be placed on their user page.
• No Supporting yourself.
  This is simply because you earn the awards from other users, not yourself. If a user is caught logging out, then supporting themselves, the nomination will be forfeit, and that user will be ineligible of being nominated for the month. If that user gets three strikes, by getting caught supporting themselves three times, their right to be nominated will be taken away for a period of six award ceremonies.
• No Supporting your nomination.
  This is because when you nominate someone, that nomination is considered a supportive gesture. The User needs to be nominated, then get three separate supports.
• No Slander
  If you and the nominated user have a problem with one another, please don't bring it into the awards. Simply be nice.
• No Replying to a closed nomination.
  When a nomination is closed with the "done" or "not done" template, please don't continue to reply. That nominee can post one reply, thanking his supporters.