Pickled Toads: Award Categories

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Haggridd" 
<jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> Okay, the consensus on categries for the 2003 Pickled Toad Awards 
> (the "Pickled Toadies") so far are as follows:
> 
> 1. Best filk from a musical (best show tune).
> 
> 2. Best filk from a movie soundtrack.
> 
> 3. Best TV filk.

There aren't that many (less than a dozen), so maybe it's not worth 
creating a separate category here

> 
> 4. Best Gershwin filk (I dunno about this one.  All of his songs 
were 
> from musicals or movies, but if there are enough written for a 
> separate category, then so be it.)

I would suggest a "Best Tin-Pan Alley" filk category instead, so we 
could also include all the Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Irving 
Berlin, et al derived filks. I've only done a few Gershwin filks 
(Gershwin is hard to filk!) but quite a few Cole Porter. 

> 
> 5. Best filk from rock & roll.

I would suggest sub-dividing this to "oldies" (50s to 70s) and 
contemporary (80s to the present)

> 
> 6. Best Beatles filk.
> 
> 7. Best Disney filk.
> 
> 8. Best Tom Lehrer filk.
> 
> 9. Best Christmas Carol (or Chanukkah or Kwanza or Ramadan)filk.
> 
> 10. Best filk of a tune not known to the listener.
> 
> 11. Best TBAY filk.
> 
> 12. Best SHIP filk.
> 
> 13. Best serious filk.
> 
> 14. Funniest filk.
> 
> 15. Best Dramatization of a scene from canon.
> 
> 16. Funniest treatment of a scene from canon.
> 
> 17. And, last but not least, Best Filk.
> 
> I envision possibly closing nominations at the end of May, and 
voting 
> via HPFGU-OTC poll (maybe on the main list too if the mods approve) 
> through June, with actual physical awards-- wait till you see them--
 
> to be presented during Nimbus 2003 (or mailed to the winers unable 
to 
> attend).
> 
> Any comments, additions, suggestions to consolidate categories I 
> would like to whittle down the list to a more manageable number, if 
> at all possible, else we'll end up with one-filk categories.  
> Best choice of vehicle.
> 
> Please comment either here or to me offlist.
> 

This sounds good. I might suggest adding a category for best Gilbert 
and Sullivan filk as well. 

As for scoring, I would say each voter should be able to name one 
first choice, and one runner-up. First Choice is worth two points. 
runner-up one point. 

   - CMC