Newser Nominated For Avi Choice Awards

 

 Remember the Avi Choice Awards? They were held for a number of years until finally having the last one in 2016. But after a decade, they're back. 

 

 We’re so excited to announce that we’re back!  After a long break, the Avi Choice Awards are returning to Second Life.  It’s time to recognize, applaud, appreciate, embrace and celebrate our virtual community with the Avi Choice Awards again.

And among those nominated, The Newser.  

 

Congratulations!  You have been nominated for an Avi Choice Award!  For the past couple months Second Life residents have been submitting nominations, for the Second Life Experience categories, via the Avi Choice website.  After a process of consolidation, you are a finalist and eligible to receive votes. https://avichoiceawards.com/vote-is-open/

 

The Newser was nominated for "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper or Periodical."

 

Votes for this and other categories such as Shopping Event, Club DJ, Region to Explore Through, and others, will be accepted until April 19, "Winners will be announced during the Avi Choice Awards show on Apr 25th at 1pm SLT."

 

Space will be limited at the awards show, so when tickets are available, they'll be sold on a first come, first sold basis. 

The Avi Choice Awards are not about the determination on who is best but rather an opportunity for all of us to applaud our favorites.  It is a platform for us to show how much we appreciate you for adding to what makes our Second Lives full, beautiful and fun.  THANK YOU! 

 

Read more at https://avichoiceawards.com/ .  

 

Crew Meeting

Saturday at Noon at February 7 was when the Newser crew met for it's monthly meeting at the office at HV Community. Those attending included DrFran Babcock, Grease Coakes, Bixyl Shuftan (yours truly), Gemma Cleanslate, and a new writer, Kiirya Lii (kiirya.huntress).

Topics included our new sponsor M&M Creations, which Gemma was especially happy to hear as she remembers them well from her days at the old SL Newspaper, and us being nominated for two awards of Avi Choice (vote here).

Avi Choice Awards

On Sunday Dec 16th at 10 AM, the Avi Choice Awards took place. Sponsored by the Relay for Life Christmas Expo, the event took place where four of the five Xmas Expo sims met up. Elrik Merlin and Saffia Widdershins of "Designing Worlds" announced the winners.

Despite the extra room multiple sims offered, the event was extremely laggy, and many relied on SL TV footage to see. There were also complaints in Relay chat about people getting "bumped" and asked to leave. The event had also been rescheduled from Friday night due to the tragedy that day. So a number of people who won were not there to accept their awards.

Among those winning were the Builders Brewery for best group, Maximillian Kleene for best singer, Racer X's Giant Snail Races for favorite sporting event, and the Relay for Life as favorite event. Racer X said upon winning, "Just found out today that I was even nominated. So didn't get a chance to spam my friends into voting for me, so thank you all that did, that's really AMAZING!! Thank you all for your wonderful support ... we hope you all have as much fun watching the show as me, Tindy, Salem and Safra have making (it)."

The Steelhead community had several nominations, including Fuzzball Ortega for best DJ. 

For the full list of winners, check the Avi Choice website: http://slchristmasexpo.wordpress.com/avi-choice-awards/ 

Image from Metaverse TV

Bixyl Shuftan

Avi Choice Awards Tonight

Tonight at the RFL 2012 Christmas Expo, ay 6PM the Avi Choice Awards take place. Second Life Newser is among the finalist for best newsletter/magazine, and the Steelhead community is also eligible for several awards. If you can't be there, you can listen in on T-1 Radio: http://www.t1radio.com/.

SL Newser Nominated For Best Newspaper by Avi Choice Awards

Second Life Newser received a nomination recently. It was among several publications to be nominated for the "Avi Choice Awards" in Second Life.

The Avi Choice Awards is the premier annual awards presentation recognizing the people and talent of Second Life’s amazing creations, completely chosen and voted on by SL residents.  The 2011 Avi Choice Awards response was tremendous and the websites saw an amazing 35,000 visits and a staggering number of votes.  This year we expect even more.

The Newser was nominated for the category "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper, or Periodical," which was in the "Entertainment" nominations. Some people, places, and groups familiar to readers were also nominated, such as Fuzzball Ortega for favorite DJ, Jaycatt and Frogg for favorite musical duet, and T-1 Radio for favorite radio station. The news was also announced in a notice in Steelhead.

"The Avi Choice Awards is presented each year at the Christmas Expo, a holiday event to benefit the American Cancer Society. And yes, the Steamlands are well represented, including the citizens of Steelhead City listed as 'Favorite SL Group.' Read and vote for your favorite."

Residents have until December 12 at 8PM to vote.

Click Here and scroll down to about the level of the Relay for Life symbol to vote for the Newser.