Below are all of the character, post, player and special awards. Each quarter your fellow players will nominate other players for these awards and then everyone will vote on the winner. Ideally, players should nominate players, characters and posts from their own team, and then review all nominations from all teams before voting for a winner. Descriptions of each award are included.

Player Awards

Best New Player All players who have joined since the closing of the last award nominations are eligible. Players nominate the player they feel has contributed the most to the game and stayed the most active both in character and out of character Most Creative Player All players are eligible. Players nominate the player who has contributed the most in terms of creative ideas, missions and post, both in and out of character. Biggest Team Player All players are eligible. Players nominate the player they feel has contributed the most to their or another team, both in and out of character, either though JPs, answering questions, catching up new players on team history or contributing to the storyline. Best Player to JP with All players are eligible. Players nominate the player strictly on their joint posts skills, including willingness, creativity, enthusiasm, and have much fun they are to JP with. Best Technical Writer All players are eligible. Players nominate the player they feel does the best writing dealing with detailed aspects of a medical, mechanical, scientfic or other skill. Best Mission Motavator All players are eligible. Players nominate the player that proved the most motavation to push forward during lulls or downturns in missions. Most Devious Player All players are eligible. Players nominate the players they feel are the best at introducing plot twists, danger and exciting elements to missions. Best Tag Team Duo All players are eligible. Players nominate the players they feel are the best posting duo whether it is on a field team or base staff. The players are judged on the quality of their posting, frequency, ability to include other team members and emotional content (humor, angst, etc.)

Character Awards

Best New Character All characters added since the closing of the last awards nominations are eligible. Players nominate the character they feel has contributed the most to their team and stayed the most active in character. Most Developed Character All characters are eligible. Players nominate the character they feel has developed the most since the last award nominations. the characters are judged on information revealed, emotional maturity, and steady but not sudden enhancement of the character. Most Appealing Male Character All male characters are eligible. Players nominate the male character they feel is the most appealing based on looks, charm and personality. Most Appealing Female Character All female characters are eligible. Players nominate the female character they feel is the most appealing based on looks, charm and personality. Best Civilian Character All civilian characters are eligible. Players nominate the civilian character they feel is the best overall example of their civilian field. Nominations should be based on the character's actions, personality and attitudes in character. Best Military Character All military characters are eligible. Players nominate the military character they feel is the best overall examable of a military character. Nominations should be based on the character's actions, personality and attitudes in character. Best Romantic Couple All Characters in a romantic relationship with another character are eligible. Players nominate based on real aspects of the relationship, good or bad and general chemistry of the characters together. Best Sarcastic Remark All characters are eligible. Players nominate the character they feel has uttered the best sarcastic remark. This is not necessarily the most sarcastic character. Purple Heart All characters are eligible. Players nominate the character they feel suffered a host of injuries, a grusome injury or funny injury. Most Reckless Character All characters are eligible. Players nominate the character they feel has the most disregard for their own or other's safety. They charge in first and ask questions later.

Posting Awards

Best Post Title All posts since the closing of the last awards nominations are eligible. Players nominate the post they believe has the best title based on humor, overall application to the post body and creativity. Best Mission/Action Post All posts since the closing of the last awards nominations are eligible. Players nominate the post they believe is the most action filled or exciting post by any player. Best Base/Off Duty Post All posts since the closing of the last awards nominations that are posted by characters while on base are eligible. Players nominate the post they believe is the best post from any base member while on base based on the quality of the post, work related content included, number of base members included and humor. Best Comical Post All posts since the closing of the last awards nominations are eligible. Players nominate the post they believe is the most humorous or comical post by any player. Best Angst Post All posts since the closing of the last awards nominations are eligible. Players nominate the post they believe is the most angst filled or distressing post by any player.

Special Awards

Anniversary Award All players are eligible. Players are awarded this award for each year the are a member of Stargate Ancient Legacy. Leadership Award All COs and 2ICs are eligible. Players are awarded this award by the GM or aGM for exceptional leadership of a field team Character Posting Award All characters that have been in the RPG seven weeks or more are eligible. Players are awarded this award for perfectly following the posting guidelines for the quarter for one character. Character Posting Commendation All characters are eligible. Players are awarded this award for having only one miss for a character. Also perfect characters who have been in the games less than seven weeks recieve this award. Player Posting Award All players who have been in the RPG seven weeks or more are eligible. Players are awarded this award for perfectly following the posting guidelines for the quarter for all their characters. Player Posting Commendation All players are eligible. Players are awarded this award for averaging one or fewer misses per character. Also perfect posters who have been in the games less than seven weeks recieve this award. Ancient Legacy Team of the Quarter All team are eligible. Teams are awarded this award for having the best posting percentage for the quarter. Above and Beyond Award All players are eligible. Players are awarded this award by the GM or aGM for going above and beyond the requirements and expectations asked of each player. It is Stargate: Beyond Atlantis' highest honor.