Hello and Welcome!

Thank you all so much for your contributions in last week’s Nomination Round, the number and variety of responses exceeded my wildest expectations. I was exposed to some great new groups and soloists myself what will certainly feature on future episodes of the Nugu Roundup (by the way, this post is filling in for the Nugu Roundup this week) and it was great to see the variety of musical tastes in fellow r/Kpop members.

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What is this?: Awards Season is in full swing, but a lot of groups get left out of the festivities. Since there are some amazing groups flying under the radar, I felt that we should do our own set of awards to celebrate those groups. The eligibility for these are groups/artists that aren’t:

• From the Big 3+1 (JYP, YGE, SM, Big Hit)
• Produce Groups (X1, IZ*ONE)
• Pre-Debut or Disbanded (with the exception of the ‘Wish You Were Still Here’ award)

… and who have not:

• Won a music show this year
• Won more than one music show in previous years
• Won major (Daesang) awards at previous awards shows

That’s a pretty broad interpretation of ‘Nugu’ and I realize that. Because of that, I’ve broken the top awards categories (our ‘Daewangs’) into two divisions – Underrated and Nugu (aside from Rookie of the Year). Please make sure to vote for both divisions (it’s all on the same poll).

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The Nominations Round ended on Thursday, but the Voting Round begins today! Even if you didn’t nominate, please join and vote! I am requiring your Reddit Username for this round to control for one vote per person. I will not share who voted for what with anyone. I will not post any usernames with any voting results. This is just a check to make sure only one vote per person counts. I am not collecting e-mail addresses or any other personal information.

Please Click Here to Vote!

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Below are some links to the songs/MVs/Content for the various categories, please use it to help inform your opinions if you aren’t familiar with some of the groups. If you have no opinion for a particular category you don’t have to vote in it, but I encourage everyone to check these out and see if you find something you like!

The selections in each category are not presented in any particular order, and are also randomized in the voting poll.

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Whew!!

Sorry for the late posting, I wanted to have this out this morning, but this took a lot longer than I expected.

P-FAQ (preemptive frequently asked questions)

• The selections up for voting were the ones with the most nominations in each category (excluding ineligible groups/songs, a lot of y’all nominated a bunch of Twice, BTS, and Blackpink stuff, not sure if that was trolling me or not)
• The one exception was the fashion award in which I just threw in everything that someone gave me a link for.
• There were some great ideas in the ‘Create a Category’ nomination line, and I’ll consider those for next year, I just didn’t want to make this form any longer
• I’ll post the nomination totals for each category after I post the final results next week, I don’t want to ‘put my thumb on the scale’ as it were by showing which songs/groups had the most nominations in each category ahead of time
• Feel free to ask any other questions you may have below and I’ll answer them!

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Voting will be open from Today (Sunday December the 15th) through Friday December 20th @ 6pm EST (11pm GMT).

If you have any problems with the form or links above please let me know!

Please discuss any of the groups above below, and feel free to make your case why someone should vote for your favs in any of the categories as well as share additional information, videos, photos, etc about them!

Have fun and thank you for participating!

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Here’s Another Voting Form Link in case you missed the one above!

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EDIT (12/15/19 9:37pm EST): Made the links for the fashion section clearer and added Kpop Wiki Fandom links for some of the categories above to complement the Kprofiles links (both sites are stronger in certain areas than the other, so the more info to help make decisions the better!) Also a clarification I forgot to mention above – in song/MV/album categories each group was limited to one entry per category (so if Group X had Song A and Song B that both ended up near the top of the nominations but Song A received more nominations only Song A was listed).