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Hi guys.

Last year was the first, and it has returned. The UK Larp Awards (2012) will take place on the Saturday evening of the UK Larp Awareness Party in Leicester, an indoor kit fair with lots of other attractions and competitions

The Awareness Party is on from Saturday, 25 February 10am until Sunday, 26 February 5pm at The Stage Hotel, 299 Leicester Road, Wigston Fields, Leicester, LE18 1JW.

Please see the facebook page for info on the Awareness Party.

The UK Larp Awards allows everyone to vote for people and companies that have been outstanding in the past year. Send your nominations to uklarpawards@gmail.com, and feel free to nominate in all or only some of the categories and to give reasons for your nominations if you wish. Nominations to close at the beginning of February 2012.

For the full list of categories and more information please visit:
this rule7 forum or the facebook page of the same.

Please vote for whoever you think deserves it and they could be in for some kudos!
P.S. I am classifying Seaxe and Sorcery as a "Medium LARP" system as we generally have over 30 people turn up to each event, but under 100. Lets get ourselves unified on that front!! (Don't want to waste votes lol)

Sam / Bifford

oh, and feel free to nominate me as "unsung hero" for all the website/forum/facebook/etc work LMAO

Done!!! Good luck!
Elina

Hope everyone is well after the celebrations and looking forward to the next year of Larp.

There is a large kit fair during the day which has already got a lot of traders booked, please feel free to nominate Seaxe and sorcery or any of the indervidual systems for any of the areas listed below.

the email for the nominatins is uklarpawards@gmail.com

WhenSaturday, February 25, 2012.Time7:00pm until 9:00pm..Where The Stage Hotel, Leicester

Description Returning for a 2nd year,

The categories:

Best small Larp (up to 30 players) of the Year
... Best medium Larp (30-100) of the Year
Best large Larp (100+ players) of the Year
Overall Larp Event of the Year. (this will be one of the winners of best small, medium or large Larps)
Best family event of the Year (one that allows under 18's/16's to play and be involved in the game along side adults)
Best grass roots system of the Year (system or event that does best to encourage new players into the hobby)
Best new Larp of the Year (Game that ran for the first time since the last Larp awards in April 2011)
Best Larp Producer - Foam/Latex of the Year
Best Larp Producer - Leather of the Year
Best Creature Costume of the Year.
On-line Retailer of the Year
In-field Retailer of the Year
NPC of the Year
Event Crew Member of the Year
Lord of Larp (man that is active in Larp, attends (or helps organise) events run by more organisations than just one, if a Larper were to appear on TV being billed as a "Larper" (or LRPer or Live Role Player, etc), who should it be?)
Lady of Larp (as above but for women)
Unsung Hero Award (someone who gets little recognition but does a lot for the hobby - if they're nominated in any other categories then they probably shouldn't be nominated in this category)
Life Time Achievement (someone who has been outstanding in Larp for several years)

New Awards for 2012:

Best Larp Producer - Costume
Best Larp Caterer
Best International Larp Event (event run outside the UK)

Send your nominations to uklarpawards@gmail.com , feel free to nominate in all or only some of the categories and to give reasons for your nominations if you wish. Nominations to close at the beginning of February 2012.

This is happening on the Saturday evening of the UK Larp Awareness Party - Leicester, an indoor kit fair with lots of other attractions and competitions. A link to the Facebook event page is below;

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=296560033707318

more information to come.

Hi Paul!

I've merged this with my initial post/thread as it is the same thing but you give the full info! So there are already a few votes going on! LOL

Hope you don't mind the merge...!

Sam / Bifford

cheers sam i knew you had posted it but could not find cheers.

paul

just sent off my votes HMS for medium, grass route and family, put down ToNA for new event. oh and byford as unsung go byford.

I will be following suite, if as many of you could do the same please do it would be nice to win some acknowledgement

Gary

The shortlist has been announced. There are two that we want to be looking out for in regards to Seaxe and Sorcery:

Best grass roots system of the Year
• Spearhead
• Herofest
• Fools and Heroes
• Shadow Lands - Brixham Berserkers
• Seaxe & Sorcery

(wtf does grass roots system mean!?!?!?!?)

[EDIT] I answered my own question above! LOL : "Best grass roots system of the Year (system or event that does best to encourage new players into the hobby)" hehe [/EDIT]

and

Best new Larp of the Year
• Wastelands
• New Dawn 2075
• Victoriana
• Orithocracy
• Tales of New Albion

and then from our members and supporters POV:

On-line Retailer of the Year
• LRP Store
• Primal Forge
• Viking Store
• Darkblade
• Velvet Glove


then of course there is:

Unsung Hero Award
Winner TBA

Life Time Achievement
Winner TBA

So! Wish Seaxe, New Albion and TVS all the best for the awards!!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1287364688

Guys please do vote for us and encourage your friends to as well. Most of you seem to enjoy our efforts and wear TVS gear so please sooner rather than latter.

Gary

Gary - voting has finished which is why the shortlist is out - now it is just a case of waiting to see who has won each category!

Oh dear!

Well it's still good as it means we had enough votes to get into the short-list! So even if we don't win on each of those lists there will be kudos and recognition given.

I mean, Tales of new Albion getting onto the "Best Newcomer" list is great for ToNA - the next event will hopefully have loads of new people wanting to know why it was so good as to get onto the nominations list....

Or that's what we can hope, anyway

So who is actually going to the event to see who wins?

Well now we play the waiting game, and i think a big thanks is in order! For all the Players, refs.... well the whole group really, Who have made seaxe what it is. Your all great

Send me a text if we win anything please guys! I want to be kept up to date!

Seaxe got the runner up position in Best Grass Roots system! Nice!

Tales of New Albion didn't place but got plenty of interest! So this should be a great boost for ToNA.

All good news for us

I am not one to usually do a write up of such things but I was very impressed with the amount of interest generated by the LARP Awareness Fayre and the LARP Awards. I was very pleased that Seaxe where invited to have a promotional stall at the event. I am very grateful for Paul, Kim, Dave and Keri for supporting me at the event and for doing a sterling job at promoting our club.

To be honest events like this are important for three reasons 1) You get to see what is going on across the whole of the LARPing world, you can compare and contrast experiences and pick up on trends. 2) You meet new people and you swap stories, experience new systems and realise that the problems you have are the same or similar to the problems other people are having, you effectively build up a contact network. 3) You get to meet the makers and traders first hand and they are all a great group of people. They are more than willing to give you advice and cut you deals if you approach them the right way.
I realise at the moment the LARP awards are quite small and to a certain degree tongue in cheek, however as they go on and they grow I think they will become a very important part of the UK LARP calendar. This year already saw an increase in number of attendees, and some people just came for the awards themselves. Overall the evening was not only fun but it allowed people to compare notes and share in each other’s success.

If Ian keeps on inviting us we will continue to attend, it felt good to receive the runner ups position for Best Grass roots Club and hopefully next year we will be nominated for it again as well as Family and Medium LARP although the competition is going to be steep in all categories. I also have someone in mind for unsung hero category as well.

I would also like to thank all the people who nominated us and who voted for us and our members and those who attend event after event.

Gary Bates,

Chairman of Seaxe & Sorcery