The RPG Site of the Year Award, or SOTY, is Stuffer Shack’s way of rewarding our community’s awesome gaming bloggers. It’s a celebration of gaming, showcasing the best of the best gaming blogs. It’s a free contest in which readers submit their table-top gaming websites – in the hopes of taking home the prizes and SOTY Shield, but more importantly, the title of RPG Site of the Year.
Our first award went to a very deserving Critical Hits in 2011, and we’re looking forward to this year’s contest. 2012 will see a few changes from how things were done in 2011, but it’s all for the better!
A Proper Introduction…
My name is Tourq Stevens, and this contest is being hosted by Stuffer Shack. Every month Stuffer Shack showcases a great blog in a feature called Site of the Month. Well, after a year of being online, it only seemed natural to begin a Site of the Year feature. However, wherein our Site of the Month stems from a simple arbitrary decision on which blog to showcase, our SOTY contest is a much more involved event.
This contest is free, yet yields some impressive prizes. Our first contest had 26 contestants all vying for both the RPG Site of the Year title, and a prize package worth over $250. This year we’ll have more submissions, AND we have several more sponsors this time around, as well. That means we have more prizes! We’ll announce those prizes in the coming weeks.
How many winners will there be? Will there be different categories?
There will be one winner, always. The category is simply “RPG Site of the Year.” This contest is geared specifically for independent, non-corporate, fan-based, table-top gaming blogs (text blogs, audio, and video – it’s all the same!).
And how is the winner determined?
It will be determined in two phases:
- All sites will be put into one of five groups, and readers will vote online for their favorite site in each group.
- Then, the five winning sites will be examined in a variety of categories by several judges, with their combined efforts to determine the winner.
And when does the contest actually take place?
- We’ll be accepting submissions until the end of March.
- Reader voting will take place in the middle of April.
- The judges will go over the finalists near the end of April.
- And the winner will be announced on April 30th!
If you have any questions, I would be glad to answer them below in the comments, or you can get in touch through our contact page.
Take it easy, and good luck!
-Tourq
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Tourq Stevens
In Tourq's opinion, the very best vices are dirt bikes, rock music, and gaming, while the very best medicine is fatherhood. If he could just learn to balance them all, he'd live forever. He's much more creative than intelligent, often wakes up belligerent, and ponders many things insignificant. Lastly, in an effort to transform his well-fed body, P90X, Roller Blading, and Food are all laughing at him. And the pain continues.
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Looking forward to see what is submitted this year. WOOT!
Me too. There’s a lot of RPG blogs out there, and I’m looking forward to seeing them all.
I can’t keep up with them all. Lots and Lots.