GRcadeAwards: Preliminary Award Selection VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:31 pm
by JK
GRcade is almost a whole year old, and what better way to celebrate this glorious occasion than with an awards ceremony celebrating our best and brightest? I have selected 14 categories that will definitely be featured in the proceedings...
Definite Awards
Forumite of the Year Most Entertaining Forumite Most Missed Forumite The 'I Wish They Would Post More' Award (AKA Most Underappreciated) Best Newcomer Most Useful/Helpful Forumite Best Username Award
Best Forum Game Most Memorable GRcade Event Best Thread (GGC) Best Thread (Non-GGC) Best Long-Running Thread Quote Of The Year
But! I'll be needing you to vote for some additional categories! Just pick your favourite four from the above list, and the ones with the most votes by the time I get to closing the poll (probably about a week) will be included in the ceremony. Then we can get on with the nominations!
Cheers guys, I've got a good feeling about this. Who needs sunshine when you could be voting for the inclusion of a particualar category in an awards ceremony featured on an Internet gaming board? Not I, my son... not I.
Original post before edit is below.
To tie in with GRcade's upcoming first birthday, I'm thinking about running some kind of awards ceremony (y'know, like the one's tnman used to do back in the day).
Of course, the backbone of any awards ceremony are the actual awards given. So, I've given it a bit of thought and decided it might be an idea to base the various categories around our lovely emoticons. So far I've got...
Forumite of the Year
Funniest Forumite
Best Name Change
Worst Name Change
Best Forum Game
Most Memorable Forum Event
Most Missed Forumite
Best Thread
Best Resident Thread (By resident thread I mean something like USTV, TCRT etc.)
Of course, there's a few emotes left that I haven't used. Any ideas for decent categories? Or comments on the whole idea of doing awards? Feedback welcome and all that jazz.
Mods, feel free to move this to somewhere else if you think it would be better suited.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:03 pm
by LewisD
It's a good idea, but just like forum meetups it'll be organized for ages and never happen.
In other words: ITCAOA
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:07 pm
by Gandalf
JK wrote:Mods, feel free to move this to somewhere else if you think it would be better suited.
Keep it here for the time being. If this starts to get momentum, I'll sticky it to save it falling off the front page.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:07 pm
by Skarjo
Ah, so now TCRT is dripping in JK-Loving he's decided to push his luck has he?
I KNOW YOUR GAME.
And would totally vote for you, obviously.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:11 pm
by Cuttooth
LewisD wrote:It's a good idea, but just like forum meetups it'll be organized for ages and never happen.
In other words: ITCAOA
Because the awards have never gone off successfully before.
If you do it, don't do what OTN tried to do and rush into it. Need to make shortlists for each category.
And try to keep the number of categories down too, we ended up with far too many near identical ones.
The KKLEIN Award for Best Avatar The MCN Award for Best Scrap The Fanboy Award for Services To Bullshit The Pope Benedict XVI Award for Chastity The Tragic Magic Award for Best Forumite Photo of 2008 The Prototype Award for Spammer Of The Year 2008™ The Cheeriest Forumite Award sponsored by Fatal Exception The Damian Green Award for Most Likely To Have Their Computer Taken By The Police The 'I Bet Em Wouldn't Mind Being Eaten Out' Award for Perviest Forumite sponsored by Alvin Flummux The 'I Suck At Relationships' Award sponsored by Igor The 'I Wish They Would Post More' Award Least Welcome Quote Of The Year Best Meme Best Thread Best Bannable Offence Best Newcomer Best Photoshop Best "Joke Account" Best Internet Comeback Funniest Poster Facepalmer Of The Year Forum Event Of The Year Biggest Facepalm Moment Funniest Picture Most Likely To Kill Themselves Next Year Most Likely To Contract Fap-Induced RSI Best Taste In... Music Best Taste In... Films Best Taste In... Games Best Taste In... TV Worst Taste in... Music Worst Taste In... Films Worst Taste In... Games Worst Taste In... TV Forumite Of The Year
Out of those, include things like 'The 'I Wish They Would Post More' Award', Quote Of The Year, Best Newcomer, Best Photoshop, Best Internet Comeback, and Best Taste/Worst Taste, as well as the ones you've already mentioned.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:42 pm
by JK
I'm not doing any of that "The [Forumite Name] Award For [Something That Selected Forumite Does]" bollocks - it looks rubbish and you've effectively decided who the winner is before the vote.
I'm thinking of having a dedicated nominations thread (once we've got some categories sorted) in which people can make one nomination per category. Maybe I'll cap off the total nominations per category to six in some of the more wide-reaching categories like "Best Forumite". Should give us a nice shortlist of nominations, then I'll start another dedicated voting thread with a pretty detailed opening post describing each award and the nominees.
Obviously its early days yet but I should be able to get this rolling once we've sorted out some categories.
So, those categories so far:
:D Forumite of the Year
Funniest Forumite
Best Name Change
Worst Name Change
Best Forum Game
Most Memorable Forum Event
Most Missed Forumite
Best Thread
Best Resident Thread
Quote Of The Year
The 'I Wish They Would Post More' Award
Best Newcomer
Best Photoshop
Best Taste
Worst Taste
Best Meme
Worst Meme
I've added Cuttooth's suggestions, and a couple about memes since they're seemingly pretty important here. That's 17 so far. Any more suggestions?
Skarjo wrote:Ah, so now TCRT is dripping in JK-Loving he's decided to push his luck has he?
I KNOW YOUR GAME.
I'm a shoe-in for the "Best Forumite With A Microbiology Degree" category.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:43 pm
by Memento Mori
I'm all for this if JK bribes me with an award.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:44 pm
by Skarjo
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:44 pm
by JK
Memento Mori wrote:I'm all for this if JK bribes me with an award.
Your love for Lost pretty much hands you the Worst Taste award.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:45 pm
by Memento Mori
JK wrote:
Memento Mori wrote:I'm all for this if JK bribes me with an award.
Your love for Lost pretty much hands you the Worst Taste award.
LOL
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:45 pm
by Cuttooth
Memento Mori wrote:I'm all for this if JK bribes me with an award.
You would have been a shoo-in for Worst Taste only a couple of months ago.
Now, now it's all good.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:48 pm
by Memento Mori
Cuttooth wrote:
Memento Mori wrote:I'm all for this if JK bribes me with an award.
You would have been a shoo-in for Worst Taste only a couple of months ago.
Now, now it's all good.
The Wire is the worst thing - I can't even finish that sentence any more.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:49 pm
by Cuttooth
Best Avatar/Worst Avatar?
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:50 pm
by vesp
I want to win one!!
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:51 pm
by JK
Cuttooth wrote:Best Avatar/Worst Avatar?
I like.
Also, what do you mean with the Best Internet Comeback Award?
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:52 pm
by Memento Mori
I vote for Biggest Facepalm Moment to be an award.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:54 pm
by Cuttooth
JK wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:Best Avatar/Worst Avatar?
I like.
Also, what do you mean with the Best Internet Comeback Award?
I think it was for people who returned after some time away from GR/GRcade. Though, it might be a bit redundant now.
Disregard.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:01 pm
by RamSteelwood
'Least Noticed Forumite' would be interesting
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:03 pm
by Skarjo
RamSteelwood wrote:'Least Noticed Forumite' would be interesting
I think making that into an award would create an internet-breaking paradox.
Re: Possible GRcadeAwards?
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:35 pm
by Cuttooth
Looking back at the 2007 and 2005 awards, we used to have things like:
Most Entertaining Forumite Most Useful/Helpful Forumite Best Username Award Most Intelligent Forumite Kindest Forumite Master Debater Trophy Best Looking Forumite Bestest Forumite Ever Most Obscure/Oddest Forumite Most Creative Forumite Best Rivalry
And GGC and Non GGC specific Best Thread Ever.
Of course, adding them all would be silly but a couple of them are alright.