[UA] VOTE for DEMONGROUND today!!

[Mike Marchi]

     As you are all no doubt aware, for the past couple of years, the
DEMONGROUND editorial team has been working hard to bring you the
highest quality fanzine that we possibly can. Despite the fact that we
don't charge people to download it, we still feel you deserve
something with professional quality. We really believe that there
isn't a better game-related amateur magazine in the RPG industry
today. If there is, then we haven't seen it. But despite our best
efforts, there are many people who STILL haven't heard about us. We'd
like to fix that.
    At the moment, voting is currently underway for the 1999 Origins
awards. The awards are the RPG industries version of the Oscars, where
the best products from the previous years are voted on by the gaming
industry and the winners are honoured at the Origins gaming convention
later this year in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
      One of the categories every year is the "Best Amateur Game
Magazine". The official ballot is out, and we haven't actually been
nominated for the award, but that doesn't mean we don't still have a
chance.  As in past years, there is a space to write in something
different at the bottom of each category. We'd love to see DEMONGROUND
rise up and take this award!
     So we're asking for all of the DEMONGROUND readers to go to the
Origins awards online voting page and enter a vote for DEMONGROUND in
category 6.1. The URL is
http//www.gama.org/academy/vote/vote.phtml?election=Origins00 You just
fill in the form on that page, and you will be taken to the voting
page. In the write-in section for the best Amateur Gaming Mag, we'd
like you to write

 Title:  DEMONGROUND 
 Publisher:  DEMONGROUND (http://www.demonground.org/)

     Whatever else you vote for on the form is completely up to you.
     This is the first year that the Origins Awards Ballot has been
available as an online function.  DEMONGROUND is an online magazine. 
This is where our strength and our support comes from.  We need to
fire up a good old-fashioned grass-roots write-in campaign.  If we can
get every subscriber and supporter of DEMONGROUND to cast a vote for
us, we may actually stand a chance.
     We're interested in winning this award, not so much for
ourselves, but to help put DEMONGROUND on the map. The DG Editorial
Team already knows that we have some extremely talented people
supporting us on a regular basis. People like Eyal Faingersh and Lee
Williams (among many others) have been tireless in their efforts to
help make DG what it is today. We'd like to be able to repay that
effort by making the gaming industry realise that we've got some
excellent people working for us and they would do well to take notice
of them. It has been said in the past that one of the best ways to
break into the gaming industry is to start out writing (or drawing)
for fan magazine, because it shows the editors that you're self
motivated and hard working. We'd love for some of our regulars to get
noticed by the big boys and offered a chance to go on to bigger and
better things. We believe they deserve that.
     So please spend five minutes filling out the online form and
voting for DEMONGROUND. Let's prove to the world what we already know.

cheers,
The DEMONGROUND editorial team
--
DEMONGROUND: Reflections of a Darker Future
  http://www.demonground.org
  mailto:demonground at demonground.org

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