Unterganger Awards

The Unterganger Awards (UA) is a monthly award show maintained by JennieParker87. Parodies are nominated throughout the month, within 12 (14) categories. A team of judges then select the winners. The winning parodies are then presented in a video made by JennieParker87, which is also uploaded to Charizard's channel.

Nomination & Winner selection
Anyone (except judges in the UA) can nominate up to three parodies for each category. Nominating one's own parody is fine, as long as at least one other parody by someone else is also nominated before deadline (which is on the last day of the month). Nominations are made in the current Unterganger Awards thread.

Since December 2014, judges are allowed to nominate parodies (and Untergangers for UotM, but not for PotM), if there is a need (for example if a category doesn't receieve any nominations, or if there is just one nomination in a category). Judges can also nominate a parody of their own. However, If a judge's own parody is self-nominated; a 5th judge must be called in to vote in that category, to ensure justice. Judges can not nominate in categories where there are more than one nomination, or if another judge nominated a parody in the same category. Also note, that judges can only nominate parodies on the day after deadline, and only during one day.

Categories for nomination
In November 2012, TheSilverUniverse allowed for three parodies to be nominated per category and that system remains today. In September 2014, JennieParker87 changed some of the categories, based on a suggestion from Soalric Parker. In November 2014, Unterganger of the Month returned as a category in the UA, as a separate category. This means that the winner of the title is presented in the same result video as the UA. Since December 2014, Parody of the Month is also included in the UA as a separate category. In March 2015, 3 new categories were added; "Most Humorous Parody" (suggested by Ako675), "Best use of a rare scene" (suggested by Fuhrerandhissoldiers) and "Best parody by a newcomer" ("newcomer" here means a person who has been making parodies for less than 6 months). In May 2015, DPMVs got a separate category - Best DPMV (Music Parody) - instead of being included in the "Best Audio-Based" category. This was decided after JennieParker87 and AlphaSkyRaider had discussed the subject. In July 2015, JennieParker87 decided to replace "Best Seasonal" with "Best Series", a category which was previously in the UA. It was missed by several Untergangers, so she decided to put it back in.

History
The UA was created to replace the increasingly biased Downfall Parody Awards run by sole judge and jury notoriousrob01. It was conceived after months of evident favouritism on the DPA surrounding an unterganger in particular. Official wiki recognition of the DPA ended after June 2012, and now the wiki officially supports the Unterganger Awards.

The previously independent Unterganger of the Month (UotM) and Parody of the Month (PotM) were planned to be presented under UA's label, though the two would run semi-independently and continue to have their own nominations. However, early plans for integration met with resistance from the judges of each contest. Therefore, the first series of UA awards announced in October 2012 were made without the UotM and PotM, and the two continued at their own pace and with their own announcement videos. As time went on, however, and the two began to falter, both were eventually successfully incorporated into the UA.

The main judges for the new Unterganger Awards were originally Benad361, TheSilverUniverse and Master Studios, with guest judges for each month. Later, Master Studios dropped from his position, leaving only Benad361 and TheSilverUniverse.

In June 2014, Benad361 announced he was retiring as manager for the UA, for pragmatic reasons, namely other commitments. He decided to step down, rather than seeing the UA decline. It was decided through a voting process that JennieParker87 would take over as manager, with Soalric Parker as "Deputy manager" and judge, along with Hitler Rants Parodies as back-up manager and judge. In December 2014, Soalric Parker stepped down from his position as judge and Deputy manager. Later on, Hitler Rants Parodies also stepped down as judge. Instead, AlphaSkyRaider, Vulpix95NL and Fuhrerandhissoldiers became judges alongside JennieParker87.

2012
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February 2013
Lots of great parodies on the month of St. Valentine's. The announcement also includes the UotM and PotM, recipients of which are listed in their respective pages.

March 2013
March saw the development of many new series, as well as the release of a TV documentary about the Downfall Parodies. The announcement video also included the UotM and PotM, recipients of which are listed in their respective pages.

July 2013
''Due to a lack of participation, the July 2013 Unterganger Awards did not take place. Benad361 had important commitments throughout August, and so that month's awards were combined with September's.''

May, June, July 2014
''Since the transfer of the Unteganger Awards from Benad361 to JennieParker87 took a few months, the May, June and July nominations were combined into a single nomination period. ''

2015
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TFPStudios was appointed as an "emergency judge" for that month's awards.
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TFPStudios, HighBunker HxH Parodies and Ako675 were appointed as "emergency judges" for the UoTM category.
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TFPStudios and RandomDolfyParodies stepped in as judges for June, since JennieParker87 and Vulpix95NL were unable to judge. JennieParker87 helped to settle a tie.
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