I liked a post I read on the GG forum about rating players, but I think it would be even more fun to have an annual awards show where we all vote online for the best players in several categories. We can call them the Brainy Awards (Brainies) where the winners win a trophy (virtual anyway) of a brain on a stick.

Sample categories would include:

Rookie of the year (which new player came on the scene and everyone took notice)

Comeback player of the year (which old timer returned to form after a period of lackluster performances)

Nicest player of the year (who was the most pleasant to play with/against)

Meanest Player (who seemed the most ornery of all?)

Best Solo Scrum Player of the year

Best Team Scrum Player of the year

Best Solo BattleMode player of the year

Best Team BattleMode player of the year

Best overall player of the year

Best single performance of the year (scrum or BM)

Best MOD of the year (Official and home-made)

Best Bot of the year?

Best Thinkthanks website of the year

Best new feature of the year

What do you all think?

Sounds like fun

Cool!

I wonder who would manage these polls? Perhaps the webmaster of this board?

The question then becomes when do we conduct these polls (December 1 thru 31)?

The problem with that is that it would favor the players who are the hottest at that time, rather than let's say players who hit their peak earlier in the year (sort of the same dilemma that exists with the Academy Awards where Pictures released too early in the year do not stay fresh enough in the minds of the voting members as do those that get released late in the year).

Still, I like the idea of having it at the end of every year. We could set it up so that nominees can be made all throughout the year and those totals will dictate who gets listed as official nominees. However, there should be a way to nominate players with a special write-in vote to ensure that newcomers get a fair chance at the awards too. It would safe-guard those situations where a great player starts playing in October and doesn't have enough time to accumulate nomination votes.

We could keep the nomination polls on this website if it's acceptable to the person in charge.

Paisano®

Can we get Billy Crystal Tank to MC... He's a crack up!

Lol

How about the UMAOPRAH Tank?

Keep the polls short and fun. Too many categories mean few will enter. Best Scrum and Best BM players are really hard to judge, and I'd rather just leave out. However, the fun ones, like funniest player, nicest player, chest-beating player, most drunken player, gabby player, etc are always fun.

- BombJames Bomb

I think JB's got it right. Categories like Best BM and Scrum player may ignite some wars and bruised egos. But funnier, lighter stuff like he mentions will be easy to do. Also, there needs to be a voting system done in a way to prevent players from voting for themselves. I can see some people doing that, just for some notoriety.

OM

Yea OM and JB, things like:

Best Cliff-Diver

Best BouncePadder

Best 'Oh No I hit a rock again' Driver

Best Backward Driver

Best Whiner

Best Lucky Bastard

Best Spawner

Best Dancer

Best Cliff Driver (with a 'r')

Best Freebie Snatcher

Best NoObie

Best Mindless Chatter

Best Demo

Best Jangy Swiper

Best Acrobatics

Best Strategic Retreat (aka Coward)

Best Lagger

Best Teleporter

Best Worst Shooter

Etc.

Someone could do a 'simple' html form.

Best thighs.

Best partial photos.

Best Mouse Pitcher.

Best In-Game freak-out

Just a few thoughts...... Noone in mind really.....

:P

@TG- we have never seen your thighs, so we can't vote for you on that. Why don't you post a picture of them so we have something to vote on? XD

OM

Exactly... I tried to include unusual and fun categories too (nicest, meanest, website, mods, etc.)

So yes, I think it needs to include as many fun categories as possible...

I loved the best cliffdiver one!

How about best quitter when he's about to get killed?

Best Target?

Best long range sniper?

Best Lucky Bastard: DainBramage (I swear, he it's like he calls the scrum to him like an obedient dog!)

Best Acrobatics: Master TMO with his twirling jump-pad goals.

Best Strategic Retreat: MajorPain (no offense, but you have to pay the price for taking the scrum to the ends of the earth before returning to goal)

Best Lagger: Flea

Best Teleporter: George

Best Demo: A dead one. XD

- BombJames Bomb

How about Best Tank Skin?

Best trash talker (without getting too personal or angry)?

Best loser? (most gracious?)

Highest score (scrum, BM, survivor, etc.)

I'd probably win the Best Mindless Chatter award. ;)

How about that dubious award: Most Improved?

@OM and TG, thighs?

@JB, I've been beaten out for bastard. Now you die.

I guess u can put me in the:

1) Best All Arround Player!!

2) I'm an awsome scrummer

3) but I dominate over Battle Mode!

-----

4) Best new feature of the year?!= The Ignore Script!

5) I enjoy playing scrum with both azazel, and Dj Breaker!, Azazel makes any scrum game enjoyable, and Dj Breaker Tests both my scrum skills and my possesion skills!

6) The not so enjoyable player is= (Demo: LTGeneral) he follows me everywheres I go trying to pick a fight with my by attacking me, but always gets his Butt whooped XD , same can be said of= Billy Bob, and mabe a few others.

7) Best Bot of the year?! Y non other than= Predator Bot! : For showing greate health, sniping skills, and power!!

8) and I considere my best friend Ben (SA) as the nicest player of the year =D

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hey Paisano, I've liked all the threads u've created so far, they'r just fun to interact with, and share u'r thoughts! (not to mention that u've picked some preatty good topics!)

See ya arround B)

Cadc (SA) (Leader)

Best Lucky Bastard: Bumblebee (luckiest scrummer alive)

Worst luck: rooks with the shittiest spawns

Best Acrobatics: hanky with the backflips and back ward jumps and such

Best Strategic Retreat: MajorPain and jangles

Best Lagger: Fleab

Best shooter: hoosane

Best drunk: vashstampede (ie inxtc, vampire)

Best Teleporter: Hugobrain. Still want to know how in the hell u pulled that stunt with mysterman

Best cliffhanger: chocoholic

Best Demo: they all suck the same

Nicest player: dj

Best swiper: tally

Best target: tie between tally and hugob

Best noobie: rooks

This sounds cool. I'm not going to nominate anyone til there's a real form, but I will make a suggestion.

One year is way too long. Especially if this is just joky stuff. No way we actually need to wait a whole year to do this, it's just going to get forgotten. I think it could work with at least four times a year. Once a month is the way I would go.

Thanks for props, Cadc. I try to put a little thought into any post. I try to learn things from them too. You guys/gals have shared a lot of great stuff...funny and informative stuff. Explains a lot about the game when you learn about the personalities behind the tanks.

For example, when Bolo voted for Hoosane as best shooter, that explained why Hoosane reacted so extremely angry with me recently when I smoked him several times in a row in Repent's excellent Mod. I didn't know at the time that he was such a great marksman, so that is probably why he spewed forth an endless series of profanity and bile that I will not repeat on this board. :)

As for best cliff hanger, I've not been around long, but no one has impressed me more than Chaos for sheer fearlessness around the cliffs!

He must have a special Stick 'em code or something! He never falls off and no one can get him!!!

I totally agree with Asterisk too. An annual award is way too long...especially for gamers like us who have the attention spans of gibbons!

So I second his motion to make it an monthly award! It would sort of be like that lame Employee of the Month award. No?

Paisano

P.s. JameBomb great games tonight... Katherine too

I'd be glad to maintain the online polls and results if no one else wants to do it.

I would use polls that would prevent anyone from voting more than once (it checks your IP address to verify this).

Here is a sample poll... http://pub.alxnet.com/poll?id=2418062

Obviously, it would not prevent anyone from voting for themselves, but they could only do it once.

We would reset all of the polls on the first of every month and start fresh from there.

At the end of the year, we could tally all the votes from the previous 12 months and crown an annual champion for each category.

It wouldn't be that tough and wouldn't take much time once it is all setup. Contact me, -z- if you are interested in doing this.

I'd be glad to assist you with it if the gang wanted it, of course.

The main purpose of this should be for fun and entertainment. There are no cash prizes, so no need for anyone to get upset about any of it.

Last edited: Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 12:06:13 PM

Another poll sample for Favorite TT game:

http://pub.alxnet.com/poll?id=2418064

Heh, one day I was playing spooky 1 vs 1 with my Equal (Ben (SA)) and I was backing up because he was after me, and withought noticing, I reached the end of the cliff, AND IT WAS A 90 DEGREE CLIFF HANG THAT I MADE!!!! He even took me for dead for sure!! I couldn't believe it either B)

Cadc (SA) (Leader)