End of Year Forum Awards 2015 - Voting

[Solaris]

End of Year Forum Awards 2015

Thank you to everyone who nominated. Now we move onto the voting phase. Apart from members, all nominees have links to them if you want to check them out. You have about 2 weeks to vote, so have fun! Ties will be broken with additional polls afterwards if necessary.

MEMBERS
Community Member of the Year (Non-Staff) - Physsion

New Member of the Year - Discord

Staff Member of the Year - UTAlan

PvP Player of the Year -  Physsion

TOPICS
Overall Topic of the Year - Here we thank ye

Funniest Topic of the Year - Masters: EXPOSED

Moment of the Year - Darkness Wins War 9

EVENTS AND COMPETITIONS
Favorite PvP Event - Trenzalore

Favorite Tournament - My Balls are Bigger! - Upgraded

Favorite PvP Match - 9th Trials of Water - Final Battle

Favorite Competition - Tie! Writing Competition - Thank You Notes & Deckbuilding Competition - Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock

Favorite Brawl or Competition Entry - Master's Flag submission by Physsion

Favorite Forum Game - Quantafied

CARDS AND ART
Favorite Card Idea - Echinda | Echinda by majofa

Favorite Elements Art - December 2015 Newsletter Comic by Krzysiekxd

DECKS
Favorite PvP Deck - Silence is Golden by Scaramanga

Favorite AI Grinder - Poison Dials SoSac by Sevs

To vote, you have approximately no time remaining.

Disclaimer: Some nominations were removed for not being posted in 2015, troll-like in nature, or have a chance to incite a flame war. We apologize for the inconvenience.

[Solaris]

Voting may begin! Good luck, and thank you all for participating!

[Solaris]

An oversight was made in the "Funniest Topic of the Year" category, and thus, the poll for that category has been reset. Please send in your vote for that category again, and I apologize for the inconvenience! Thanks!

[Solaris]

In the same light as the post above, the "Favorite Forum Game" has been reset. Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for your votes!

[Solaris]

For some odd reason, the "Staff Member of the Year" poll disappeared while I was asleep, so it has been re-added. Apologies for the inconvenience.

[Ginyu]

A few odd nominations there, while some sections only have a few entries when there could be a lot more. Who made those?

[iancudorinmarian]

A few odd nominations there, while some sections only have a few entries when there could be a lot more. Who made those?

They were sent by forum members.

[Ginyu]

Well, okay then. I still think there should be an instance to check viable nominees, and also check if sent nominations are valid. I saw MMC had made some corrections on entries so far, so here some other very questionable entries: "Silence is Golden by Scaramanga" if from Jan 2012, Poison Dials from March 2012, Swallow from Feb 2013.

I think, there should be some representatives to take care that every section has just a few good nominees, so that there is no winner "by basically no competition". A seperate Staff role for this seems unneeded, but maybe Council could note some interesting topics throughout the year. Overall, this depends on the actual "impact", if people think those awards are just a nice-to-have and are forgotten soon anyway, there is no real point for extra work.

[Solaris]

Well, okay then. I still think there should be an instance to check viable nominees, and also check if sent nominations are valid. I saw MMC had made some corrections on entries so far, so here some other very questionable entries: "Silence is Golden by Scaramanga" if from Jan 2012, Poison Dials from March 2012, Swallow from Feb 2013.

I think, there should be some representatives to take care that every section has just a few good nominees, so that there is no winner "by basically no competition". A seperate Staff role for this seems unneeded, but maybe Council could note some interesting topics throughout the year. Overall, this depends on the actual "impact", if people think those awards are just a nice-to-have and are forgotten soon anyway, there is no real point for extra work.

PvP, as well as AI & Arena grinder, decks are exempt from the "2015" rule. I only put in the ones that were submitted in 2015 or earlier, though.

Edit: As for the 2nd part of your post, the problem would be rectified if more people would nominate things.

[Naesala]

Wait, someone nominated my weird dream as post of the year?

That's hilarious and has made my day so much better.

[Physsion]

My only complaint is that more than half of my nominations were left out, even though they were valid.

For example: I don't see why it wasn't accepted as moment of the year that deuce left the forum, which made a huge impact.

Unless I'm mistaken, this category is supposed to be for your favourite moment of the year. I'm sure it wasn't your intention to sound disrespectful, but I can't blame MMC for omitting this nomination.

[Physsion]

That's fine, I understand where you're coming from, just thought I'd point out how some people may have interpreted your nomination. Losing deuce was a huge blow to the community, I completely agree that it had a big impact here, but perhaps it was MMC's intention for the awards to let us reflect on the best parts of the year, rather than the worst.

I could, of course, be completely wrong - perhaps there was another reason it was left out. Only he can know!