User blog comment:Minato Arisato00/Autumn Awards Announcement/@comment-1942179-20130923165619

I don't think we can do these awards within 16-17 days. (I see that the most popular suggestion was Oct.30 to Nov.16) We would be reeeeaaaally cutting it short there. Most of them take at least a month and a half. This is only half of one month, if I'm understanding this correctly.

I believe we should try to narrow it down some more, as there are at least 3 different phases to the awards; simply stating when it begins and ends just isn't enough. We have the Nomination phase, the First Round of voting, and the Final round of voting. (or if we're really (un)lucky, an extra round for someone who got tied in the final round.) So we should try to schedule when each of these phases begin. That way, we have a better idea of the timespan of the event.

I say that we should take Oct.15 or 16 to begin the nomination phase. We can start voting on the 30th or so, since that's the date everyone was voting for. 15 days should also give ample time for people to get their nominations in. Then the final round can come in at about November 14th or 15th. And from there you can decide when to end it. That is, IF we have a final round. We could end up with no tie breakers for once.

Anyway, that's how I believe we should handle this. Any objections?