Voting Ends Today at 5PM For Avi Choice Nominees

For those who haven't yet voted for the nominees in the Avi Choice Awards, you have until 5PM SL time today to do so. At that time, no more will be accepted, and the votes will be totaled. Among the nominees elegible for an award is the Second Life Newser, which can be found in "The Arts" category. So if you haven't yet, please click the link and vote for us in the "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper or Periodical" poll on the top.

It is suggested that readers look further down "The Arts," as well as "Fashion" and "SL Life"  to see what else they could vote for. For instance, the Relay for Life and a number of groups or people connected to it have also been nominated for awards, such as T-1, Whip, and Krypton Radio, Wildstar Beaumont, and others.

The Avi Choice Awards will be presented on December 4 at 1PM SL time in a show hosted by Trader Whiplash and Nuala Maracas. The sim will be closed to the general public and be limited to the up to 85 people who purchase tickets to the event. The tickets cost 400L, and are non-refundable should the person be unable to attend.

For more information, check out the website at: https://avichoiceawards.com/

Second Life Newser Nominated By Avi Choice Awards For Favorite Newspaper

A month and a half ago, Avi Choice started accepting submissions for nominations for their Last Avi Choice Awards. Last night, they informed the Newser that it had been chosen as one of the nominees. The newsletter had been nominated for "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper or Periodical."

Congratulations!  You have been nominated for an Avi Choice Award!  For the past few weeks Second Life residents have been submitting nominations, for the SLife, Fashion ad Arts categories, via the Avi Choice website.  After a process of consolidation, you are a finalist and eligible for voting.  http://avichoiceawards.com

"Favorite Magazine, Newspaper or Periodical" falls into Avi Choice's category "The Arts." To vote for us, just (Click here) and go to the first part and click next to Second Life Newser.

There are many other selections to vote for such as favorite radio station, favorite DJ, favorite store, favorite annual event, etc. So you may want to browse through the whole list, as well as "Fashion" and "SLife."  Voting ends on Nov. 28th at 5PM SL time. Voting is limited to one vote per avatar.

This year's Avi Choice Awards are planned to be the final one after taking place every year for several years. This final show will happen on Dec 4, 2016 at 1PM SL time.

The Newser has been nominated twice before for the Avi Choice awards, in 2012, and 2015.

Nominations Sought For Last Avi Choice Awards

The Avi Choice Awards, who brand themselves as "the premier annual awards presentation recognizing the people and talent of SL’s™ amazing creations, chosen and voted on by SL™ residents," are once again accepting submissions. However, this will be the final time the awards will be done, at least in their current form.

As announced during last year’s Avi Choice Fashion Awards, we are retiring the Awards, as we know them.  We are talking about continuing our mission forward in some way ...  But for now.. we have an announcement to make! On December 4th, 2016 we will host one more Avi Choice Awards!  The GRAND FINALE!  This one will take us back to the early days of our Awards when we had one program a year celebrating as many recipients in all three genre’s as we could.

 There will be some special mentions and moments as we all say our goodbyes to what has become an amazing part of Second Life history.  This program will be the conclusion of the Avi Choice Awards, as we know them.  It’s been a good run and we could not have done it without support and cooperation and input from the amazing virtual community known as Second Life.  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

The Awards are in three categories: Fashion, The Arts, and SLife.

Among the categories for Fashion are clothing, avatar, avatar accessories, and jewelry stores and makers.

The categories of The Arts include "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper, or Periodical," Favorite Radio Station, Favorite Male DJ, Favorite Female DJ, Favorite Streamed Music Club, Favorite Machinima Artist, and more.

For SLife, which has the most selections, categorizes include Favorite Furniture Maker, Favorite Sim to Explore, Favorite Place to Take a Date, Favorite Shopping Region, Favorite Roleplay Sim, Favorite Second Life Blog or Website, and Favorite Second Life Blogger.

Residents have until Wednesday October 12 to cast their votes. Going through the guidelines, there doesn't seem to be any rules against voting for someone or something in multiple categories.

The Second Life Newser fits the "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper, or Periodical" in "The Arts."  But the several sections qualify for "Favorite Second Life Blog or Website" in "SL Life." Bixyl Shuftan and Becly "Sha" Shamen qualify for votes in "Favorite Second Life Blogger," also in SL Life. The Newser has been nominated twice in the Avi Choice Awards, but has yet to win first place in getting an award.

So the Second Life Newser asks you the readers for your support for the Awards.

Bixyl Shuftan

Press Release: The RFL Wrap Up Event

                 The Relay For Life Of Second Life
                *+.*+.* 2015 Wrap Up Party *+.*+.*
                     Sunday, August 16, 2015
                         9:00am slt - 1pm slt
                                                
Live music, award presentations, wrap up speakers, special performances, dance party and the 2016 Theme announcement along with other surprises.
                                                     
The Rose Theatre and Art Gallery http://www.impl.org.uk/, Angel Manor (152, 214, 29)                              

This is one last party for the Relay to THANK EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU for all your work, time, effort, and dedication to make the RFL of SL such a huge success.

The following awards will be handed out at the Wrap Up Party:

Team Fundraising Club Award - To Teams Who Moved Up A Level Since July 18 Relay
Best Man and Maid Of Honor Awards
Smell The Roses - The Clown Awards
Top Team Convio (Website) Fundraising  1,2,3
Top Individual Convio (Website) Fundraising 1,2,3
Convio Website Participation Award 1,2,3
Top Team Fundraising Award  - Overall 1,2,3
The Spirit Of Relay Award - Team
The Spirit Of Relay Award - Individual

You can still enter your nominees for some awards until August 9
http://relayforlifeofsecondlife.org/

We will be announcing the 2016 Theme and have a few other surprises in store!

We have a live music performance starting at 9am that you do not want to miss! Followed by the awards and Wrap Up event......then.... hang on to your hats...... we have a very very special performance that will leave you wanting more, followed by an hour dance party!

All music, award presentations and the Wrap Up event will be streamed live over the Official Relay For Life Of SL Radio broadcaster, T1Radio.

If you are arranging a listening party of your own, or cannot make it to the awards, you can use the following links to hear the music / events: 

http://t1radio.serverroom.us:8242

http://tunein.com/radio/T1-Radio-s113797/     (on the web)


Listening locations for overflow will be located here:

American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society (183, 78, 23)

Relay dAlliez Common Area, Relay dAlliez (128, 21, 23)

Requested Attire:   Relay T-shirts and jeans / skirt  - let's keep the load on the sim to a minimum.
Please detach all huds (dance, game, roleplay, hair, shoes, clothing etc), if your clothing, shoes or hair has a resize script then please remove the script or put on different clothes, hair, shoes. Turn your draw distance down to 128 or lower, set your quality to Medium if you need to for this time period, turn your particles to 50 or lower, set your Max Avatars lower if needed .  Remember, you control your own lag.  Your computer processing speed is the majority determinant for how you experience an event. Adjust YOUR settings and things will improve. But we can all help each other out by doing the simple steps above with our huds and clothes.

We look forward to seeing you at the party !!      

Relay for Life Wrap Up Date Announced

Daniel Voyager wrote on his blog that the Relay for Life in Second Life "Wrap-Up" event will be on Sunday August 16. Although the Relay Weekend last month was the climax of the Relay season, it's the Wrap-Up that marks the official end. On the RFL of SL website, people are asked to submit nominations for the Spirit of Relay awards, for both team and individual, and other awards. The deadline for nominations is Sunday August 9, a week before the wrap-up.

http://relayforlifeofsecondlife.org/

Avi Choice Awards Trophy

The Avi Choice Awards show was last weekend. Although nominated, the Newser didn't win, the award for "Favorite Newspaper or Magazine" going to a fashion one. Still, they did send us a silver trophy for making it to the nominations.

One Week Left For Avi Choice Awards Voting

Hey folks. Just a reminder about the Second Life Newser being nominated for two awards of the Avi Choice Awards, "Best Media News Source" and "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper, or Periodical."

The deadline for voting is next Monday, February 23. The winners will be announced at a special event on Saturday February 28.

To vote, go to this page: http://avichoiceawards.com/vote-here-the-arts/ , and vote for the Second Life Newser under "Best Media News Source" and "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper, or Periodical."

SL Newser Nominated For Avi Choice Awards

Over the weekend, Second Life Newser was nominated for two awards of the Avi Choice Awards.The awards that the Newser was nominated for are "Best Media News Source" and "Favorite Magazine, Newspaper, or Periodical."

The Avi Choice Awards have been around since 2011. This time, the various awardss have been split into three groups, voted on at separate times, Fashion, Arts, and SLife. The winners of the current group of awards, the Arts, will be announced on the Avi Choce Awards show on February 28 at 1PM SL time. Tickets are needed to attend, and the dress code is formal.

To vote, head to:  http://avichoiceawards.com/vote-here-the-arts/

Remember, the Newser has been nominated for ...

"Best Media News Source" and

"Favorite Magazine, Newspaper, or Periodical"

Bixyl Shuftan

At the Avi Choice Awards, Or Maybe Not

Yesterday at 3PM, the 2013 Avi Choice Awards took place. Trouble was, one needed tickets to be allowed in the four sim area at the Christmas Expo where it took place. And yours truly hadn't quite remembered to get one. So was watching them from an auxillary location at the beach docks near where T-1 Radio is located. one could watch it on the screen there, or on a HUD provided at the docks. The event was also broadcasted on T-1 Radio. Treet TV, which has broadcasted many events on Second Life live, wasn't showing it this time.

The show had a few glitches, such as one of the hostesses not rezzing, and at one point the computer handling the broadcasting crashed, showing the Windows startup screen, followed by a "please update your Firestorm." Despite these glitches, the event was viewed by over 600 people at times, and attended by over a hundred at the Expo region. The list of winners at http://avichoiceawards.com/ has not yet been published.

Thank you for those who voted for me in the "best blogger" category.

*Update: the list of winners has been published*

Bixyl Shuftan

2013 Avi Choice Awards Taking Place Dec 15th

The Avi Choice Awards, which brands itself as "the premier annual awards presentation recognizing the people and talent" will be taking place on Sunday Dec 15th at 3PM SL time.

The Avi Choice Awards is the premier annual awards presentation recognizing the people and talent of SL’s™ amazing creations, completely chosen and voted on by SL™ residents.  The 2011 and 2012 Avi Choice Awards response was tremendous and the websites saw an amazing 65000 visits and an staggering number of votes.  This year we expect even more.

This years show will again be hosted by T1 Radio’s Trader Whiplash and Nuala Maracas.  Presenting Avi Choices this year will be Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin of TREET TV’s Designing Worlds and Satin Galli and Erin68 Frog who are longtime SL performers and RL couple, too.  Both sets of presenters are nominees this year and have both won awards in past years.  Performances at this years extravaganza include the wonderful artistry of Particle Tom and Lexi, Therese Nightfire and the Guerilla Burlesque Dancers and first life band Wayne Davis Rocks.  The show will be another stunning example of the talent and brilliance available in our wonderful SL grid.

The award presentation will take place at the Christmas Expo, and is considered a "black tie" formal attire event.

Among those nominated for best DJ is Fuzzball Ortega, of the Steelhead Estates. Krypton Radio, where he often performs, was among the nominations for favorite radio station. The Second Life Enquirer was among those nominated for best newspaper.

Those with questions are asked to email: AviChoiceAwards@gmail.com.