If you have thoughts, I am more than happy to hear them! Please help me figure out how to make this a (relatively) reasonable amount of work for the judges, whom I deeply love and appreciate for being the people to actually make this project run

Most people didn't hit this limit, but if The Awards even gets back to where it was in 2022 this time around that's a significant increase in material to get through. I present several possible modifications in the blogpost, but I'm not yet convinced by any of them

For 2024, I instituted a 3-item and 50-page limit of reading *per submitter*, whichever you hit first. Longer stuff could still get in, but judges weren't obligated to read more than 50 pages. This was a good policy, but still a lot to read (78 submitters in 2024 meant a max of 3900 pages)

The central problem is that being a judge is a LOT of work and reading, spread out over ~5 months. The bulk of that comes in the first 3, when judges have to read through all of the submissions we receive.

In 2022, that was 197 submissions.
In 2023, it was 333.
In 2024, it was 104.

ME!!!

The central problem I think is that they fleshed out settings for Kyoshi, Aang, and Korra eras (which notably already have avatars lol) and provided absolutely 0 guidance for how to come up with your own era of history with its own avatar