We don’t want these awards to be full of rules cos rules are meant to be broken, , but we do want these awards to be fair to all involved – that is for us, and for you, the voters and nominee’s.

Here are the rules, or regulations – what ever you wish to call them that we would like everyone to follow.

NOMINEES (NOMINATING)

This section is pretty simple – the first round of voting, is really your chance to nominate what you think should win each particular award.

We do have a few guidelines to enable this process to run smoothly:

• All Web Page’s eligible must be part of the Blue Heelers Web Ring by 1/12/99. That enables easy access for all voters.
  
  
• All web pages eligible must be working, and have information on Blue Heelers, or one of the actors, or characters within the show. Otherwise you aren’t eligible, for obvious reasons. I mean why would you want to enter the awards anyhow.
  
  
• When voting for a character on the show, you must state their full name, not "the character who did this ….."
  

  
  
• When voting for a episode, you must state the full episode name, not "the episode where this and this happened"

• When voting for an actor, the name of their character or what their character did is not acceptable – their full REAL name must be given
  
  
• Make sure you know what your are nominating!
  
  
• For the mailing list awards, you must be a member of one of the various Blue Heelers mailing lists.

  VOTING

  Voting, which will be in Round 2 is very straightforward. For each of the thirty awards, you will be given four choices, which will come from the top four nominated in Round 1 for each award. Once again, there are some guidelines:

• You must know what you are voting for – if you are unsure, don’t vote for that particular question. If this is done, it could have a drastic effect on the outcome of the award. You don’t have to vote for every category!
  
  
• You may vote for your own web page, or mailing list.
  
  
• One vote per person please. Fairs fair.

WINNERS

For this section, all we want to tell you is that the winners, and nominee’s for the 2^nd round will be final when they are announced, and they will not be changed! The counting of all votes will be done fairly! No appeals possible.

GENERAL RULES

• You may only nominate\vote once, from one email address. Please refrain from using multiply addresses, as that is a form of cheating is will not be accepted.
  
  
• If people are found cheating, their votes will be discounted and if they are nominated for any awards, they will be disqualified.
  
  
• Thank you very much for participating in the 1999 Doggy Awards. All further enquires can be directed to the organizers at doggyawards@hotmail.com
  
  

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