Hello and Welcome!

Thank you to everyone who nominated in last weeks round. I was impressed and so happy to see the wide variety of artists and groups that were submitted this year, even learning about some new ones myself that will certainly feature on future episodes of the Nugu Roundup. As always it’s 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 (IZ*ONE) and major label competition show groups (ENHYPEN)
• 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
• Sold more than 50K units of any physical release.

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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EDITOR’S NOTE – I SOMEHOW FORGOT TO INCLUDE NOMINATIONS FOR THE MV OF THE YEAR IN THE NOMINATION ROUND, I APOLOGIZE :(. THESE ARE MY PICKS FOR VOTING – I’LL REMEMBER TO INCLUDE THE QUESTION IN THE NOMINATIONS NEXT YEAR

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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 (for the second year in a row there were a number of nominations for BlackPink, Itzy, BTS, etc).
• I tried to cut off nominees forthe voting round at the point where there were no longer ties for the last group in, however I did have to make some executive decisions to keep the number of nominees for some categories reasonable.
• The cutoff between ‘Underrated Division’ and ‘Nugu Division’ is 10K Physical Sales
• There were some great ideas in the ‘Create a Category’ nomination line, and I’ll consider those for next year. Last year’s ‘suggestion box’ resulted in the addition of “Best B-Side” and “Best Ultra-Nugu” group this year.
• Results will be posted next Sunday December 20th!
• 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 (Saturday December the 12th) through Thursday December the 17th @ 6pm-ish 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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