#ckffawards2023

Here is the list of winners and runners-up for the Story Length-based awards. We've tagged the authors where we know their Tumblr handle or Ao3 handle; if you know or are an untagged author just message us and we'll update the post.

Best Completed Long Fic

Runner Up:  Maidengrove Hall by StrikeLikeACobraKai

Winner:  Root Beer Floats and Green Tea by @desolateice

(award by @storyshark2005)

Best Drabble

Runners Up: Agrodolce by @afrogeekgoddess and Laughing Through My Tears by @afrogeekgoddess

Winner: Date Night by puella_peanut

(award by @legocobrakai)

Hey there, Cobras, Miyagi-Dos and Eagles! It's time for the final voting round in the 5th Annual Cobra Kai Fanfiction Awards.

The categories included in this last poll are:

Best Daniel (Karate Kid era)

Best Miguel

Best Terry

Best Amanda

Best Sam

Best Bobby

Best Johnny (Cobra Kai era)

Best LawRusso Angst

Best Comedy

Best Series

Best Self-Insert / Reader Insert

Best Cruiser

Best Ficlet / Ficlet collection

Best Writer

You may only vote for ONE fic per category, so take your time and make your decisions wisely.

Final Round Day 4 Voting Ballot

Polls will close on June 4th at 8pm Central Time.

Once all the votes are tallied, the awards ceremony will take place at our Discord server at a date we will announce soon.

Please share this post to any forum or social media to help us get the word out. There are a lot of talented writers in this fandom, and they all deserve love and encouragement!

Hello hello hello! It’s time for the final vote for the following categories:

Best Carmen

Best KK Johnny

Best Supporting Female

Best Alternate Universe (LawRusso)

Best Gen Fic/Pairing

Best Tearjerker

Best Completed Long Fic (45k+)

Best Beta

Best Hawk

Polyam

Tugboat

Challenge

Frigate

Slow Burn

You can vote for only ONE fic per category — feel free to skip any categories that you wish.

Voting Round 2 BALLOT - DAY 1

Polls will close June 4th at 8pm Central Time.

Once all the votes are tallied, the awards ceremony will take place at our Discord server at a date we will announce soon.

Please share this post to any forum or social media to help us get the word out. There are a lot of talented writers in this fandom, and they all deserve love and encouragement!

Hello all! It’s time to vote for the following categories:

Best Carmen

Best KK Johnny

Best Supporting Female

Best Alternate Universe (LawRusso)

Best Gen Fic/Pairing

Best Tearjerker

Best Completed Long Fic (45k+)

Best Beta

Best Hawk

Polyam

Tugboat

Challenge

Frigate

Slow Burn

Vote for up to five entries per category — feel free to skip any categories that you wish.

Voting Round 1 POLL - DAY 2

Polls will be open until May 7th at 8pm Central Time.

In the second round of voting, we will take the top voted entries from round one and vote on them to decide our winners. Once all the votes are tallied, the awards ceremony will take place at our Discord server at a date we will announce soon.

If you do not want your fics to be included in the awards, please let us know as soon as possible by contacting [email protected], or send a message to this blog.

Please share this post to any forum or social media to help us get the word out. There are a lot of talented writers in this fandom, and they all deserve love and encouragement!

Friends, Senseis, karate people: here is the first batch of nominations for the 5th Annual Cobra Kai Fanfiction Awards!

You can nominate any Karate Kid or Cobra Kai stories posted or updated in 2022 on Archive of Our Own. 

All eligible stories must be:

Started, updated or finished during 2022.

Have a word count of 15k or more (this requirement is for WIPs only, complete stories can be shorter).

Posted on the Ao3 site under the tags “Cobra Kai (Web Series)” and/or “Karate Kid (Movies)” (You do not need to have an Ao3 account to nominate a story.)

The categories included on this first poll are:

Best Carmen

Best KK Johnny

Best Supporting Female

Best Alternate Universe (LawRusso)

Best Gen Fic/Pairing

Best Tearjerker

Best Completed Long Fic (45+)

Best Beta

Best Hawk

Polyam

Tugboat

Challenge

Frigate

Slow Burn

NOMINATIONS POLL - DAY 1

There are many awards categories this year, so the polls will be posted over several days.  You can nominate up to five stories per category, but you don't have to vote in all of them!  Skip through the different sections of the poll to get to the one(s) you want.  Please make sure to include both the fic title and the Ao3 username of the author, or we won't be able to find it.

Polls will be open until April 16th at 8pm Central Time.

Once we have all the nominations, the results will be tallied, and the stories with the top noms will go through two rounds of voting to decide the winners of the most prestigious (and, so far, the only) fanfiction awards in the Cobra Kai fandom.  The awards ceremony will take place in our Discord Server, on a date that we will announce soon.

If you do not want your fics to be included in the awards, please let us know by April 16th by contacting [email protected], or send a message to this blog.

Please share this post to any forum or social media to help us get the word out.  There are a lot of talented writers in this fandom, and they all deserve love and encouragement!

Any questions?  Concerns?  Malfunctioning forms?  Drop us a line, we're listening.

Can you make a list as good as Johnny's? Then we need you! If you would like to help us compile eligibility lists for the awards just fill in our survey:

And even if you don’t want to get involved directly, a reblog would be appreciated so we can try and reach someone who does!

More info:

Duties: You would be assigned sections, or a group of dates/time period, as well as the list of qualifications. Then you'd go through the year's entries on Ao3 in your given section(s) and search through and archive all the eligible stories using Google Sheets. The Eligibility List will be one of the main sources of info throughout the whole season.

Requirements: An email address to share/join the sheets document with the other list makers. (Both personal and fandom accts accepted, use whichever you are comfortable with.)

Help Given (We all help each other): There are occasional meetings that will be scheduled as time goes by, but there will always be tips and info channels for FAQs and monthly channels for random questions. As well as a Cheat Sheet Channel with the main info: Contacts, Qualifications, Ship Names and Classifications, etc.

Yes, you!  We are looking for volunteers to help make prizes for the awards this year in the form of pieces of art and moodboards.  So if you would like to get involved just fill in our survey:

And even if you don’t want to get involved directly, a reblog would be appreciated so we can try and reach someone who does!

More info:

Duties: Whether you make moodboards or original artwork...you would be assigned the winning stories, and then read through them to get inspiration.

Help Given (We all help each other): There will be a channel to chat with fellow makers for help if needed. Whether it's inspiration based, or which art program is the best and everything in between. We all help each other.

Are you better at marketing than whatever it is Tom Cole is doing here? Then we need you! If you would like to help us promote the awards this year just fill in our survey:

And even if you don’t want to get involved directly, a reblog would be appreciated so we can try and reach someone who does!

More info:

Duties: You would help spread the word at every stage. Blogging/Reblogging and/or sharing links of the announcements and polls across Tumblr, Twitter, IG, etc. (Both personal and fandom accts accepted, use whichever you are comfortable with.)