IYFG 1st Quarter 2009: Results & Stats

[luxken27]

Best Action/Adventure
1st – Pack Law by psyco_chick32
2nd – Beside You in Time by replicantangel
3rd – The Price by fenikkusuken

Best AU/AR
1st – Minoue by doggieearlover
2nd – Waiting on a Wish by quillwing717
3rd – Ghosts by replicantangel

Best Canon
1st – When She Comes Back by Karaumea
2nd – Future Legend by knittingknots
3rd – Keeping Watch by britedark

Best Characterization
1st – The Price (Inuyasha) by fenikkusuken
2nd – [TIE] Music Soothes the Savage Beast (Inuyasha) by TouchofPixieDust & Orders (Byakuya) by forthrightly
3rd – [TIE] Love Thy Enemy (Sesshoumaru) by Drake Clawfang & Unexpected (Miroku) by forthrightly

Best Comedy
1st – Erectile Disinformation by kingbaka22
2nd – The Domestic Dog by Aryndiel
3rd – Dog at Heart by tallymark

Best Crossover
1st – Nihon Idol by luxken27
2nd – The Power of Love by landofthekwt
3rd – Tales of the Night by Kurai Mori

Best Darkfic
1st – Until My Dying Day by BlackMamba07
2nd – [TIE] Blood and Ashes by doggieearlover & Heartless by Karaumea
3rd – The Demons Within Us by White Dire Wolf

Best Drama
1st [TIE] – Peace Treaty by piratequeen0405 & Heartless by Karaumea & A Fool’s Redemption by GrumbleBear
2nd – The Knife of Romance by inugrrrl
3rd – Settle the Score by chri

Best Lemon
1st – When She Comes Back by Karaumea
2nd – Exhibition II/III by sesshys_jaded_samuri
3rd – The Syndrome by sunsetmiko

Best Oneshot
1st – When She Comes Back by Karaumea
2nd – Future Legend by knittingknots
3rd – Special Delivery by doggieearlover

Best Original Character
1st – Shades of Gray (Kagejiro) by fallenangel17583
2nd – The Price (Buyo) by fenikkusuken
3rd – The Bargain (Hisoka) by forthrightly

Best Poem
1st – The Snow Woman by knittingknots
2nd – Fortunate by knittingknots
3rd – Innocence Lost by wbk

Best Romance – Inu/Kag
1st – Shine Prostitute by flametwirler
2nd – Unexpected by forthrightly
3rd – A Fool’s Redemption by GrumbleBear

Best Romance – Mir/San
1st – Absolution by kmoaton
2nd – Busy Hands by snow_fall
3rd – Identity Crisis by eggplantlady

Best Romance - Other
1st [TIE] – Facets of the Living Jewel by l_poetica & Everyday Love by priestess_skye
2nd – Somniloquy by watersandwilds
3rd – Revelations by priestess_skye

Best Serial
1st – The Price by fenikkusuken
2nd – A Simple Kind of Life by jennabean_dp
3rd – The Secret Key to the MedouSeki by amara_anon

Best Short-Short
1st – Fluffy by Aryndiel
2nd – [TIE] The Beast Within by psyco_chick32 & Fireworks by knittingknots
3rd – Contemplation by luxken27

Best Songfic
1st – Night and Day by landofthekwt
2nd – Nothing Else Compares by nastygakusei

Best Yaoi/Yuri
1st – Uke by twistedhilarity
2nd – [TIE] Once Upon a Rooftop by inugrrrl & Deeper than Brotherhood by demitria_miriam
3rd – [TIE] The Wolf at the Back Door by pos_sess_ed & Once Upon a Lifetime by inugrrrl


Hidden Treasure
Coda by luxken27

Many congrats to the winners from my f-list: doggieearlover, eggplantlady, flametwirler, jennabean_dp, kmoaton, knittingknots, landofthekwt, piratequeen0405, pos_sess_ed, priestess_skye, psyco_chick32, and tallymark!!

This quarter there was an average of 46 voters (912 votes across 20 polls). The most popular categories were Best AU/AR (60 votes), Best Action/Adventure (56 votes), Best Comedy (56 votes), Best Drama (55 votes), and Best Oneshot (55 votes), whereas the least popular categories were Best Romance - Miroku/Sango (29 votes), Best Songfic/Poemfic (29 votes), Best Poem (30 votes), Best Crossover (32 votes), and Best Yaoi/Yuri (33 votes).

Every poll could post a double-digit winner, and three categories (Best AU/AR, Best Darkfic, and Best Drama) resulted in zero votes for "no award should be given".

Compared to last quarter's stats, voting is down (126 total votes), although not as far as two quarters ago. (Click here to see last years' polling stats.)

Who dominated the polls this quarter?

By Story
When She Comes Back by Karaumea - 3

Per Author
Karaumea - 5
knittingknots - 5
fenikkusuken - 4
forthrightly - 4

Comments

[madmiko.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to you and everyone! ^_^

[luxken27]

Thanks! =) It was a good quarter for my f-list, LOL.

[knittingknots.livejournal.com]

I love your stats!

And congrats yourself.

[luxken27]

I love your stats!

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them - I enjoy compiling them.

And congrats yourself.

Many thanks - I didn't expect to do so well, especially given my absence from fandom of late.

[psyco_chick32]

Congrats to you and yours - and I'm still so blown away by your skills with stats ^_^

[luxken27]

Congratulations yourself, Ms. 1st Place Action/Adventure! ;) See you at the year-ending polls, LOL :P

and I'm still so blown away by your skills with stats

Because using a calculator is so terribly difficult, LOL :P

[psyco_chick32]

Congratulations yourself, Ms. 1st Place Action/Adventure!

I'm still... so... confused...
(Excited, but really confused)

Because using a calculator is so terribly difficult, LOL :P

LOLOL You'd be surprised.
Me + any form of math skills = EPIC FAIL

[piratequeen0405.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!!! And thanks for compiling all the stats and keeping track of things.

[luxken27]

Congrats yourself! LOL, you always seem to end up in a tie for your placement ;)

You're welcome for the stats as well! I'm glad you find them useful =)

[piratequeen0405.livejournal.com]

Always nice to have company :)

[doggieearlover.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this. Since I've been special notices only, and of course there has been no special notice of the winners, I had no idea that Minoue won first in the AU/AR category! or that two of my others placed. This was a nice surprise after getting back home a little while ago.

[luxken27]

Congrats on your win!! AU/AR was a tough category. I'm glad I could make your day a little brighter, hehe :)

[kmoaton.livejournal.com]

Congrats, hun and thanks. I agree with Psycochick, I'm glad someone could do the math because I can see only an epic fail with me doing it! LOL

[luxken27]

Hehe, I'm no math whiz, either, but for some reason I enjoy compiling stats. *shrug* LOL, you tell me!

Congrats on your win! It was tough picking just one story for Best Mir/San...

[kmoaton.livejournal.com]

That's why I was so surprised. 1st place was SO unexpected when I liked everything that was in the category. Maybe this will encourage some more Mir/San writers to come forth. There was a really good mix this time out but there are a lot of really nice works thanks to the comm.

[luxken27]

I hope so! It's great to see such a resurgence of interest in this pairing, thanks to the various communities. I have my fingers crossed that the pairing awards are a success, too! There's certainly no lack of eligible pieces...