Topic: Ursa Major Awards: last 2 days (til end of Feb) to nominate 2024 furry works

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Only two more days (til end of February) to nominate 2024 furry works for Ursa Major Awards.

from https://ursamajorawards.org/nominations.htm

  • "Nominations for the 2024 Awards are now open and will continue until the end of 28 February 2025. "
  • "It is not necessary to nominate in all categories."
  • Ursa's RAL (https://ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm ) "can be used as a handy guide." (ie. possible works to nominate)

(RAL = Recommended Anthropomorphics List)

Similar post at Flayrah about nominating 2024 works: https://www.flayrah.com/9290/ursa-major-awards-open-nominations-2024-works
including
a) a call for 2024 fursuits to nominate *
b) and two suggestions (so far) of 2024 works (that are not in Ursa's 2024 RAL).

* = Ursa 2024 RAL only includes one fursuit, so if number of fursuits nominated is too small presumably that category won't proceed to voting stage (Ursa website doesn't seem to say what is minimum number of nominees in a category, but i'm assuming fandom collectively needs to nominate four or more in a category for that category to proceed to voting stage)

(Sorry for short-notice: was procrastinating, busy busy, and assumed someone else would post to the forum)

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EDIT: In terms of WHAT time exactly the nominations end, in 2019 it was " The nominations are open until the end of (that 2019 date) in the last timezone in the world. " ( source at Flayrah )
so presumably is similar this year ... i.e. nominations open until end of Feb28 in the last timezone in the world.

Updated

Website category in 2024 isn't too long, so I think e621 has a chance of making it to the voting stage again.

from https://ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm#Website
1) The Belfry WebComics Index https://new.belfrycomics.net - database of furry and other web comics.
2) e621 https://e621.net/ - art archive. Mature Audiences.
3) Fluffle https://fluffle.xyz/ - reverse image search for the furry community.
4) FurAffinity - furry community, art.
5) Skyehigh Studios, https://www.youtube.com/@SkyehighStudios by Skye - Comprehensive fursuit making video instructions, commissions etc.
6) WikiFur https://wikifur.com/ - furry wiki.
7) Wolfery https://wolfery.com/ - MUCK-like furry roleplay.

(EDIT: shortened Belfry description. And added website links because nominate.cgi page says "... provide links to the nominated works.")

(Hope you will go to https://ursamajorawards.org/nominations.htm
to start the process of you nominating furry works.)

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Looking at previous years of voting:

"2023 works" : https://ursamajorawards.org/UMA_2023.htm
winner: Fur Affinity (score: 643)
Runners-Up (in descending number of votes)
• e621 (score: 579)
• Wikifur (score: 392)
• Wolfery
• Kemono Café
(scores from https://ursamajorawards.org/VotingResults2023.html )

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going to get lazy and summarize from
https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Ursa_Major_Awards_winners

2011 website winner: Equestria Daily
(1st year that Website was an Ursa award category)

2012 to 2016: Fur Affinity winning streak

2017 website winner: Inkbunny

2018 website winner: e621 (I forgot!)
voting numbers at https://ursamajorawards.org/VotingResults2018.html
(ah, FA didn't get to the voting stage.)

and then another winner streak for FA (2019-2023).

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