2009 is the year of the Wrimolympics in Vancouver, BC, celebrating the spirit of competition and pushing the boundaries of bashing out novels in a month (as if it wasn’t far-out there enough). To celebrate the sheer insanity of it all, Vancouver’s Esteemed Panel of Organiser has created a fine selection of awards for various writing and related achievements in addition to a wonderful and artistic  Event Pass. The awards will be, well, awarded to the person who best exemplifies the category that the award is in.

The Event Pass is your ticket to all the VancoWrimo-hosted writing and social events around the NaNoWriMo season. There are several boxes for keeping track of your achievements through the season. The list of achievements are:

• Official Write-ins Attendee: 4 each for VPL and Surrey Write-ins
• Kickoff
• TGIO
• Sunday Socials: 5 events
• Transit Typist: Attending the Transit Write-in
• Forum Poster: Has posted on the forums in October & November
• VPL Card: Vancouver Public Library card holder
• Pre-Mixer: Attended the Blenz meetup on October 18th
• Chat Mania: Logged on to the VancoWrimo Chat Room
• Shutterbug: Added a photo taken at a VancoWrimo event to the Flickr photo pool
• Instigator: Organized an unofficial event in your neighborhood
• Vancouverite: Homed to the Canada: BC: Vancouver region
• Wrimo Trooper: Participant in the New Zealand word war
• Friend of Tim: Participant in a VancoWrimo Chat Room word war
• 5k Day: Written 5 thousand words in a day
• 10K Day: Written 10 thousand words in a day
• 15K Day: Written 15 thousand words in a day
• Traditionalist: Written using paper and pen or pencil
• 20K Weekend: Written 20 thousand words in a weekend (Or two consecutive days)
• 30K Weekend: Written 30 thousand words in a weekend (or two consecutive days)
• 50 Thousand: Reached 50,000 words on your novel
• Nano Ender: Reached the natural end of your story
• Overachiever: 60,000 words by the end of November
• Word Maniac: Reached 50,000 words in 15 days or less.
• Two additional spaces for you to fill in your own goals to achieve in the month. Examples include: writing to an outline, finishing the story you started with, writing 2k words per day, etc.

The list of awards, and how to get them, is as follows:

• 90 kmph Novelist: Attend our Transit Write-in.
• Social Butterfly: Attend all 5 of the Sunday Socials.
• Bookish Writer: Attend all 4 of our VPL Write-ins.
• Event Pass completed: recieve a minimum number of punches on your Wrimolympics Event Pass from your MLs. (Exact number TBA.)
• Steel Bladder: Given to the person who has had the most to drink and made the least number of bathroom trips during a write-in (VPL or Surrey).
• Coffee Elemental: Given to the person who has had the most coffee and whose mood is least affected buring a write-in (VPL or Surrey).
• Keyboard Cyclone: Given to the person who flat-out wrote the most during a write-in (VPL or Surrey).
• Jetpacketeer: Given to the person who was behind the daily word count, is now ahead, and wrote the most words at a write-in (VPL or Surrey).
• Down But Not Out: Given to the person who was behind the daily word count, is still behind, but caught up the most at a write-in (VPL or Surrey).

Since the Esteemed Panel of Organizer was only able to aquire a limited number of the Wrimolympics awards for nil, in the case of a tie or limited resources awards, the attendance-based awards will be given to the people who arrived first or be compensated with a sticker. The Event Pass awards will be given out as Wrimos reach the threshold, and our Write-in awards will be sorted out at the write-in. Please note that in the case of the Event Pass awards, the MLs reserve the right to withold an award if the punches are of a dubious nature. Also keep in mind that you must pick up all your awards in person. We will not ship them, mail them, or send them home with friends, unless you have a Really Good Reason­™. Such reasons include: waking up one day in November and not having any legs, 2 of your favourite grandparents have died and their funerals were on the same day you could have picked up your award, your house suddenly vanishing from the space-time continuum along with your novel, your posessions and you or being so sick that bits of you normally inside you are now rebelling and forming their own person. If you have such a reason, we will be willing to give a friend your award.