At the end of each month, the tale with the most unique visitors, as determined by our in-house tracking system, will receive the monthly popularity award. 

Reward:
10 GT Credits to be spent on our reward list. You can win consecutive months and build up credits. 

To qualify for the Monthly Most Popular Tale:
1. The author must be a registered member and personally submit their work. Moderator published pieces will not be considered. EXCEPTION: All content from the original site qualifies, ie. published prior to April 18, 2008.
2. Not an offsite blog
3. Winner must have logged into GamerTales.com at least once in the qualifying month.

Each month our tracking software will determine the tale with the most unique visits. The winning author’s credit balance will be reflected below. Members are able to spend those credits on various rewards. Adding a catchy description, images, and promoting your published work hosted at GamerTales.com on other sites and through word of mouth is an excellent way to drive visitors to your tale. In addition, holding a monthly and all time top viewed position, we will grant a link to your story on the awards page further increasing the tale’s exposure. Good Luck Everyone!

Editor TIPS for winning
We can track to an extent where visitors come from when arriving on GamerTales.com. Here are some tactics we’ve noticed our contest winners using that work…

Creating a URL alias during submissions and using it to promote your tale
Use of their tale’s link in gaming forums and email signatures
Posting a link within other communities
Submitting their GamerTales story link to official and other related gaming sites
Creating an appealing description and cover image to entice viewers through the teaser
Adding Fan Art or screenshots
Commenting about their tale on video gaming blogs
Frequent updates and comments dialog
Plugging your tale link anywhere you can
Sort of a catch 22, but winning contests

At the end of each year, the tale with the most unique visitors, as determined by our in-house tracking system, will receive the yearly popularity award. 

Reward:
50 GT Credits to be spent on our reward list. 

To qualify for the Yearly Most Popular Tale:
1. The author must be a registered member and personally submit their work. Moderator published pieces will not be considered. EXCEPTION: All content from the original site qualifies, ie. published prior to April 18, 2008.
2. Not an offsite blog
3. Winner must have logged into GamerTales.com at least once in the qualifying year.

Each year our tracking software will determine the tale with the most unique visits. The winning author’s credit balance will be reflected below. Members are able to spend those credits on various rewards. Adding a catchy description, images, and promoting your published work hosted at GamerTales.com on other sites and through word of mouth is an excellent way to drive visitors to your tale. In addition, holding a monthly and all time top viewed position, we will grant a link to your story on the awards page further increasing the tale’s exposure. Good Luck Everyone!

Editor TIPS for winning
We can track to an extent where visitors come from when arriving on GamerTales.com. Here are some tactics we’ve noticed our contest winners using that work…

Creating a URL alias during submissions and using it to promote your tale
Use of their tale’s link in gaming forums and email signatures
Posting a link within other communities
Submitting their GamerTales story link to official and other related gaming sites
Creating an appealing description and cover image to entice viewers through the teaser
Adding Fan Art or screenshots
Commenting about their tale on video gaming blogs
Frequent updates and comments dialog
Plugging your tale link anywhere you can
Sort of a catch 22, but winning contests

Ending on the day before our 1 year anniversary 31 July 2008, the GamerTales editors will choose the Author of the Year. Our decision will encompass a variety of factors. We are looking for an author who…

… Submits updates regularly
… Adds new tales consistently
… Creates entertaining and grammatically correct work
… Enhances their stories by providing descriptions and images
… Generates popularity of their story listings elsewhere
… Assists in building the GT community by telling their friends about us
… Provides constructive author feedback and advice through the comments system

Reward:
50 GT credits to be spent on our reward list at the winner’s discretion.

We wish everyone to become the best video gaming fan fiction author, and valuable GamerTales contributor you can be. We’re looking for the most passionate and talented member of our fantastic group of authors. Good luck everyone, we’re very excited about the possibilities of 2008.

Our second viewer’s choice award will be conducted a little differently, and will end the last day of 2008.

Reward:
50 GT credits to be spent on our reward list at the winner’s discretion.

To qualify to participate in the Viewers Choice Award:
1. Can be any content type, even an offsite blog
2. Must be a registered member
3. Must not have won a Viewer's Choice Award before
4. Must have filled out the “Viewer’s Choice Award 2008 Nomination” in your Member Profile

To have your submissions qualify to participate, you need to go to My Account, click on the Edit Tab and then the “Viewer’s Choice Award 2008 Nomination” link. There is a text box for “My Nomination.” You must place into this field your favorite GamerTales.com piece’s exact title, not including any page numbers. You cannot enter your own titles.

Once you’ve clicked save, go to the View tab and you’ll see your nomination for the Viewers Choice Award listed. You can click on the link to see who else has nominated your favorite. The winner will be determined by which piece is nominated by the majority of users. Therefore, to qualify your work, you must nominate, and to win, you must be the most nominated.

Members can change thier nomination anytime up until the last day of 2008.

The Tale Hunter Contest is on hold until completely revised into the GT Contributor System. In development is an automated point generating system attached to each user account. Members will be able accumulate points by referring other gamers to GamerTales.com, submitting content, commenting on other’s work, voting in polls, and contributing in other ways to the GamerTales community. Those points can then be spent on rewards.

Winner

Mist and Mysticism by Ethelle

An Elder Scrolls Fan Fiction

Power is knowledge, and knowledge comes with a price. No one is more aware of these simple facts than Astarill of Shimerene; an ambitious necromancer, whose sole purpose is to decipher the mystery of life and death. Follow him on his search, as he braves the perils that go hand in hand with an insatiable lust for knowledge.

Winner

A Persian Leader by Snaaty

A Civilization Fan Fiction

He is incompetent, lasy and quite stupid... ...but also quite immortal. Will this alone be enough to rule the earth in the end, or will he end up with nothing after stumbling through earth's history for almost 6000 years?

Winners

2007 - The Scottish Blog by Didz - A Total War AAR

2008 - TBD

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