2005 Golden Scribes Are Here!!!
 

2005 Golden Scribe Awards

The Golden Scribes are alive and well! For those of you who are new to FOF, the Golden Scribes are given annually to honor the great dynasty writers of this excellent community of sports fans.

This year, the Golden Scribes will be undergoing a major renovation to make the process faster, more manageable, yet fair to all nominees. The Golden Scribes will now more closely resemble the Academy Awards, rather than the People’s Choice. The sheer numbers and tabulations required under the old system are just too cumbersome to do it that way. Therefore, I now present to you the all-new, streamlined Golden Scribe Award process:

THE NEW GOLDEN SCRIBE PROCESS

The new process for the Golden Scribes will be as follows:

1. All FOFC members are invited to submit nominations for the best dynasties in four (4) categories:

Front Office Football
The College Years
Other Sport
Non-Sport.

Nominations for other categories will be ignored.

2. All nominations should be e-mailed to Grid Iron (rhbaker AT gmail.com) no later than January 31, 2005.

3. The title of the e-mail should be “Golden Scribe Nominations”

4. Include your FOFC handle in your e-mail. E-mails not containing this information will be ignored.

5. After the nominations are in, a Blue Ribbon Panel comprised of five (5) former Golden Scribe winners will vote on the 2005 Golden Scribe Awards, as well as select a Dynasty of the Year and Rookie of the Year.

6. Winners will be announced as soon as possible in February.

THE BLUE RIBBON PANEL

To ensure fairness, the following rules will apply to the Blue Ribbon Panel:

1. To prevent lobbying, the identities of the panel members will remain secret. Any panel member that discloses that he or she is a panel member will be replaced with another former Golden Scribe winner.

2. Panel members may not be involved in a vote in which their own dynasty is a nominee. In such a case, alternate panel members will be selected.

I know many of you may not agree with the process or be upset that the number of categories has diminished significantly. However, the current process is a necessity to keep the Golden Scribes alive. If anyone is willing to volunteer to run the Golden Scribes under the previous system, please let me know and I will pass on this responsibility to you. :D

Good luck to all the competitors!

THREE IMPORTANT NOTES

1. Blue Ribbon Panel members may nominate dynasties.

2. You don't need to vote for every category; if you only read one dynasty and love it, then vote for it!

3. If you are an unregistered guest lurker, register for FOFC and vote for your favorite dynasty!

SAMPLE BALLOT

Please use this general format:

To: rhbaker AT gmail.com
Subject: Golden Scribe Nominations

Grid,

Here are my nominations for the Golden Scribes:

FOF-
TCY-
Other Sport-
Non-Sport-

Signed,

FOFPlaya

What are these Golden Scribes that you speak of?


;)

Does this mean that Natalie will be going with Grid Iron to the awards show this year? :)

Oh, one last note from the former president. X-Com and the Bill Gates Challenge are no longer eligible to be nominated, as they have moved into the Hall of Fame. Time for some new blood to get recognized! :)

Hey! She's mine! :mad:

It sure didn't seem like it when she was cooking my eggs this morning. :rolleyes:

I think she only goes with whoever is running the show. Why else would she have gone with you the last two years? :)

Good point. :(

Good deal. :D

SI

The past couple of years there has been a dirth in classic dynasties though (No offense to those who toiled endlessly ).

The nominations are already rolling in!

If this succeeds in this format, I think we should consider adding a couple of categories...

i.e.

Best Long-Running Dynasty
Best Vapor Dynasty

Vapor dynasty?

The nomination guidelines have been updated. I have split the football category into two--Front Office Football and TCY. So, please submit nominations for four categories. See above.

THREE IMPORTANT NOTES

1. Blue Ribbon Panel members may nominate dynasties.

2. You don't need to vote for every category; if you only read one dynasty and love it, then vote for it!

3. If you are an unregistered guest lurker, register for FOFC and vote for your favorite dynasty!

I'm assuming he means best dynasty that just never really got going, died when it was just getting started.

Not a bad idea.

Exactly... It could potentially be one that maybe had a good start and then just stopped.. maybe it got through 1 or 2 seasons and then just never went anywhere...

I kinda take it as a spin-off of Wired's top 10 Vaporware list that came out recently...

"How would you like your eggs in the morning, honey?"
"Unfertilized."

Bump. Get those nominations in!

Just six more days to get your nominations in!!!

Email them to rhbaker AT gmail.com.

See above for details.

Nominations are due TOMORROW!

E-mail me: rhbaker AT gmail.com