It's that time of the year again—nominations for the Smog awards are now open!
In order to submit your nominations:
- Click the link above.
- Enter the username(s) of whoever you wish to nominate in the appropriate field.
- You can nominate up to five users per category; if you wish to nominate multiple people for a category, make sure you separate their usernames by commas. For example:
- If you don't know anyone to nominate, leave the field blank; no need to fill everything out.
- You cannot edit your votes after you've submitted; if you later find you made an error, you will have to redo your entire ballot.
- Multiple ballots are fine.
- Your latest vote for any category is what counts.
- When you're done, click "Submit" at the bottom of the page.
Also, just as a general comment--the voting round is simply based on who receives most nominations during this round. That of course goes without saying, but that also means that the slates are as good as the people submitting their nominations. So, if during past years you've ever felt any obvious candidates were missing in any category or were dissatisfied with the ballots in general, don't forget to get your nominations in this year; don't worry if you're submitting stuff for just one category, everything is helpful. You guys are the ones we rely on to compile proper ballots, and the more material you give us to work with, the better.
That should be it! Feel free to use this thread as a discussion thread; nominations will close in a little over a week, 11:59 AM EST (UTC-5) on Jan 29th.
Happy nominating!
—Smogon's Flying Press Staff
Lumari, Quite Quiet, a fairy, Gimmicky, Kaiju Bunny, Steorra, Sulo, Tea Guzzler, uppa
In order to submit your nominations:
- Click the link above.
- Enter the username(s) of whoever you wish to nominate in the appropriate field.
- You can nominate up to five users per category; if you wish to nominate multiple people for a category, make sure you separate their usernames by commas. For example:
- If you don't know anyone to nominate, leave the field blank; no need to fill everything out.
- You cannot edit your votes after you've submitted; if you later find you made an error, you will have to redo your entire ballot.
- Multiple ballots are fine.
- Your latest vote for any category is what counts.
- When you're done, click "Submit" at the bottom of the page.
Also, just as a general comment--the voting round is simply based on who receives most nominations during this round. That of course goes without saying, but that also means that the slates are as good as the people submitting their nominations. So, if during past years you've ever felt any obvious candidates were missing in any category or were dissatisfied with the ballots in general, don't forget to get your nominations in this year; don't worry if you're submitting stuff for just one category, everything is helpful. You guys are the ones we rely on to compile proper ballots, and the more material you give us to work with, the better.
That should be it! Feel free to use this thread as a discussion thread; nominations will close in a little over a week, 11:59 AM EST (UTC-5) on Jan 29th.
Happy nominating!
—Smogon's Flying Press Staff
Lumari, Quite Quiet, a fairy, Gimmicky, Kaiju Bunny, Steorra, Sulo, Tea Guzzler, uppa
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Gabo has been active for a couple years now, during which his art skills really rose up to incredible heights but has not yet received the recognition he deserves. You can find him on the pet mods subforum on his 
BT has actually been on the smeargle's studio subforum longer than me. I remember looking at a piece they made and thinking "oh I wanna do something like this", I think it's criminal how overlooked he is.
Wixi has historically been very active in the smeargle's studio discord server as opposed to the forums which doesn't help with being recognized by the average smogon users, but this is slowly changing as they recently dropped some bangers for the forums. 
Maybe the biggest sleeper pick on this list, DWK has been active the smeargle's studio for a year and half and when I say "active" I really mean it. The sheer amount of drawings they produced is astounding and all this practice is recently paying off: they're not yet "there" but there's definetely a lot of promise.
Like Wixi, they're very active in the discord server and they don't get their rightful recognition here on the forums. The talent is definetely there, though.
Not really a sleeper pick, but any rising stars list without RADU is not to be taken seriously. Bro returned on the forums three months ago and in this time he made a ton of absolutely beautiful custom avatars (including SPL ones!) which earned him the badge. This is the exact definition of a rising star. 
