VG Facts Awards 2016 !!

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

The final list of nominees will be posted on Monday ! I would have liked to have done it sooner, but it turns out I'm working all weekend.

Then we'll get to the fun part :)

---

Here is the availability poll ! - http://doodle.com/poll/h5bmvmsnxs3xh6vz

Seeing as I'm going to be on the far-side of Africa on the two weekends afterwards, I've set a pre-emptive selection to next weekend (19th and 20th).
If that doesn't suit a significant amount of people, I'll hand over the presentation reigns to someone else and will pick up my prize of Best Stripper when I get back.

The suggested times should change based on your time-zone, let's not forget we have some might fine folk over in Europe !

[Mass Distraction]

I posted my times but basically anything in between those two times is okay for me, I guess.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

AND THE NOMINEES ARE...

Best Dream Award 

(for the best submission to the Dream Thread)

• CLXCool (He has constant surreal dreams / for having a little adventure with Kakriko and Cuccos LINK)
  
• Gamemaster1991 (Zombie apocalypse fanfic LINK )
  
• Kakariko kid (For his many, many dreams LINK LINK LINK)
  

Most Artsy 

(Nominees in this category who weren't nominated for a single piece can select one or two pieces of their work to be linked for the consideration of the voters ! PM me a link to your piece or pieces. If not, I'll select a fine piece of yours and link to it.)

• Boyobmas (Or however you spell that guy’s name, he has some great stuff)
  
• CLXCool (He’s dedicated / I'm going to go with our resident cartoonist / His thread on creative discussion)  
  
• DrakeVagabond (Just look at his Hexafusion thingy! LINK)
  
• Kakariko Kid (Because he can do damn good artistic things with that phone, LOOK AT IT ALL LINK)
  

Most active

(more serious version of the get some sleep award !)

• Psychospacecow (Dude has the most posts and threads, I see him "Thank" most posts, and I'm sure he's on most of the time I'm on / Why sleep when you can post? / Always seems to be here so I guess it's gotta be him)
  

Showcaser

(person who brings up the coolest stuff)

• Bumblebeecody (With his fighting game event posts)
  
• Mass Distraction (Another tough choice but I think Mass finds some really cool things / That Resident Evil collection)
  
• RepentantSky
  

 

Best Joker

(person has to have the cleverest and funniest joke)

• Arjahn (Always up for a good chuckle, especially when he’s getting kidnapped)
  
• gamemaster1991 (I still think this one is pretty funny LINK)
  
• SERIOUSLY THOUGH (Seriously Though, it is Seriously Though)
  

 

Best Good News

(for best anti-vent or just plain good news post)

• Arjahn (For his Cuccos Lore Post, it was pretty grand LINK)
  
• Retrolinkx (Probably the most positive poster on here / since he most often seems to be posting the newest VG news, like Detective Pikachu, free Steam games and Sega survey)
  

Worst Luck

(for best/worst vent or just plain bad news post)

• BewareOfCuccos (She has so much trouble with one of her niece’s parents AND got another job that keeps her off the forums / “work at a kids only salon now and get kicked, punched, slapped, spit at, barfed at, and have kids get so scared the pee and shit.”). 
  
• CLXcool (Poor guy. A lot of bad things happen to him. Bless his soul / on the account that he was bugged to death by a stalker who couldn't take no for an answer(as well as losing the chance of buying a wii u for a 100 bucks) LINK)
  
• CosmykTheDolfyn (For being too dark skinned to be in his line of work. Post #137 in the Weird Stories at Work thread / The adventures that guy gets into LINK)
  
• Retrolinkx (For his news post on Gametrailers being död)
  
• SERIOUSLY THOUGH (For having to sort through all of these)
  

 

Best Trivia Find

(for trivia posted since the last VGFA (March 22))

• THERE'S SO MANY. I just don't know.
  
• G-Haven (Like I said, This is just so cool to know exists, it needs to win. - http://www.vgfacts.com/trivia/9699)
  
• Psychospacecow (Brings the best up / finding a Scooby Doo easter egg in World of warcraft LINK)
  
• Space Jockey (especially on his knowledge on Jojo)
  

 

Best Player

(for anyone who streams and/or speedruns)

• Arjahn (It's gotta be the best)
  
• Cosmyk (For all the speed running / Does speedruns and is good at them / An easy choice. I like his speedruns / Because of Barney and Friends)
  
• MassDistraction (For his demo series, really enjoy those)
  

Biggest Fanboy/Girl

• ClauX (Only because he brought it up. I really don’t know)
  
• Cuccos (For her love of Zelda and The Walking Dead)
  
• Mass Distraction (That Resident Evil collection...again)
  
• RepentantSky (For holy shit so many Square Enix threads)
  

 

Best Rant/vent

• CLXCool (Because half of his total posts seem to be rants)
  
• Kakariko Kid (For the Speeding Ticket rant LINK)
  
• Retrolinkx (On what happened with him and valve's team fortress 2 LINK)
  
• SERIOUSLY (Rants about orange juice a lot)
  

 

Best Signature

• Arjahn (I really like his dancing signature / Go check his profile)
  
• ClaudX (Because of many different signatures)
  
• Cuccos (Beware of Cucco's signature)
  
• Kakariko Kid (I hate Adventure Time, but that gif is kick arse / Srs, look at it. It's glorious)
  

Best hair

• Cuccos (LINK)
  
• Kakariko (LINK)
  
• Tigerlily (LINK)
  

 

Weirdest Photo

• The Antagonist (LINK)
  
• Kakariko Kid (Jesus with the Hylian Shield LINK)
  
• Raiden Blackwood (?)
  

 

Best video-maker

• Arjahn (For gathering a lot of his follorwers back after his account got deleted.)
  
• Cosmyk (For bringing us the finest Barbie and Barney action)
  

 

Least Obnoxious

• Cosmyk (Yes you are, Cosmyk, yes you are)
  
• Cuccos (Da one who keeps watch)
  
• Gamemaster1991 (I don’t think he has a mean bone in his body)
  
• SERIOUSLY THOUGH (I'm just fishing for bonus points. ...I'm gonna get nominated now, aren't I?)
  

Least Active

• Baidu (Who is that? [SERIOUSLY’S NOTE - Chinese search engine. Probably indexing, like Google])
  
• Beardy (#RIPBeardy)
  
• Hexadecimal (She did post in the Leave of Absence thread and Weird Stories at Work thread in June a few time. R.I.P. Reddit in Peace)
  

 

Most Compulsive Thanker

• Gamemaster1991 (Many thanks)
  
• Kakariko Kid (Thanks compulsively)
  
• Psychospacecow (He thanks a lot / much polite / Does that man ever stop?! Hope not.)
  

 

Least Artsy

(For crappy MS Paint attempts)

• Arjahn (I'm not sure if it's worse for Mass's avatar or mine)
  
• Mass Effect (That Resident Evil collection - ...though maybe intentional)
  

 

Best/Worst Kidnapping scare

(So that Arjahn can win something)

• Anybody but Arjahn
  
• Arjahn (For mobilising a forum-wide IP track-down / I guess. Unless someone else got kidnapped and we don't know about it.)
  

 

King of the Forums

• Petie (Love that guy / No-one usurps the throne / It's in the title / Long live the king / Needs no explanation / I dunno, he has the power to ban me)
  

 

Get Some Sleep Man

• Gamemaster 1991 (Derp)
  

 

Rookie of the Year

(best new user, joined since March 2015)

• Furo (Cool dude)
  
• Riku434
  
• SamuraiGaiden (Very active, and an entertaining and informative poster / Another hard choice / I thought I'd mix it up a bit)
  
• Space Jockey ([...]But, he does submit trivia regularly and he does post in the threads often. He tries. / No other good rookie to vote for)
  

 

Comeback of the Year

(a former user who came back)

• Beardy (OH WAIT)
  
• Repentant Sky (Someone came back? Repentant Sky, I guess)
  

 

Most Quoted Person

• Cosmyk (For providing sig quotes)
  
• RepentantSky (Him and I often go at it)
  
• SERIOUSLY (For the quotes and quotes and quotes)
  

 
 

Best what's that thing under our usernames 

(A best user title award)

• Arjahn “NOT KIDNAPPED, MAKIN SMITE VIDEOS @ 4 AM” (I'm giving him a full house of kidnapping)
  
• CosmykTheDolfyn “Named Pedro by AGDQ chat 2015” (On a side note, since the Oscars just happened, can we hand out Pedros... / This one makes me smile almost every time)
  
• Takahashi2212 “Shine > Dair > Shine > Bair “ (DAT AINT FALCO!)
  

Lord of the Forum

• SERIOUSLY THOUGH (Sexy purple bastard / Because, well, Petie can't have his cake and eat it, too / Wait, King AND Lord? Uhhhh... Seriously)
  

 

Most Amazing Pets

• BewareOfCuccos (That cat isn't shy and showed everyone it's anus LINK)
  
• SERIOUSLY (I really do like Mr. Bobo LINK LINK)
  

 

Most Majestic Selfies

• Beware of Cuccos (LINK)
  
• Gamemaster1991 (LINK)
  
• SERIOUSLY THOUGH (LINK)
  
• Tigerlily (LINK)
  

 
 

Best Avatar

• Arjahn
  
• Beware of Cuccos
  
• Cosmyk (He's man enough to put Barbie as his avatar)
  
• Kakariko Kid
  
• Psychospacecow (Dancing peacock is cool / Peacock dancing avatar)
  
• Retrolinkx  (I really like the flipping squirrels)
  
• SERIOUSLY THOUGH (It never gets old / even though it's no longer Christmas, because it's unique and doesn't get old. But it's not Christmas anymore)
  
• SpaceJockey (Love that Hellboy)
  

 

Most Reputable

• Mass Distraction
  
• Petie (he's one of the few guys I've genuinely never seen act like an asshat on the forums. Other than him it's probably either SERIOUSLY or mass / Dat rep score)
  
• SERIOUSLY THOUGH
  

The Topic Setter

(Most interesting topics/new threads posted.)

• Psychospacecow (Starts many topics. So many.)
  
• RepentantSky (Always making new topics)
  

 

News Anchor

• Retrolinkx (For his many news posts)
  
• SeriouslyThough (Lots and lots of World News)
  

 

Craziest Day at Work

• Cuccos (Kicked, punched, slapped, spit at, barfed at, and have kids get so scared they pee and shit)
  
• Cosmyk (For putting up with body fluids, assault and racism)
  

 

Most Manly Day

• Cosmyk (For building a DIGGER like it was just an Ikea cupboard)
  
• Kakariko Kid (For that awesome Spartan Race LINK)
  

 

The Librarian

(for the hardworking people who go through all of the trivia)

• Patient Zero (A lot of my trivia has been accepted by them, and they are very helpful with trivial concerns. No pun intended / I needed to pick one, and I don't think he was on the ballot last year / He's been through a lot with the stuff I post.)
  
• Petie (All site staff does well. He responds to a lot of criticism, especially how long it takes to accept trivia, and handles it well.)
  

---

Get your votes in ! Deadline - March 19th !
The voting will follow the preferential ballot system (explanations on the first post of the thread !).
Simply put; place your votes in order of preference.


Example - 
Award X

• Candidate A
  
• Candidate B
  
• Candidate C
  
• Candidate D
  
• Candidate E
  

Your vote (in order of preference)

1. Candidate E
   
2. Candidate B
   
3. Candidate C
   
4. Candidate D
   
5. Candidate A
   

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Worst Luck

(for best/worst vent or just plain bad news post)

• BewareOfCuccos (She has so much trouble with one of her niece’s parents AND got another job that keeps her off the forums / “work at a kids only salon now and get kicked, punched, slapped, spit at, barfed at, and have kids get so scared the pee and shit.”). 

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

Forgot to mention to send your votes in by Private Message !

[Beware of Cuccos*]

Worst Luck

(for best/worst vent or just plain bad news post)

• BewareOfCuccos (She has so much trouble with one of her niece’s parents AND got another job that keeps her off the forums / “work at a kids only salon now and get kicked, punched, slapped, spit at, barfed at, and have kids get so scared the pee and shit.”). 

Some of them come in already screaming. They thrash around. Their parents have to hold them. Sometimes they do a straight-jacket wrap-around move.

[retrolinkx]

• Retrolinkx (On what happened with him and valve's team fortress 2 LINK)
  

THE LINK ISN'T WORKING.

I'VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN WHAT I DID TO BE NOMINATED

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[gamemaster1991]

Least Obnoxious

Gamemaster1991 (I don’t think he has a mean bone in his body)

My brother also knows that we were nominated for Most Majestic Selfies. He approves.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

• Retrolinkx (On what happened with him and valve's team fortress 2 LINK)
  

THE LINK ISN'T WORKING.

I'VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN WHAT I DID TO BE NOMINATED

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Fixed !

[Psychospacecow]

Just thought I'd put out a reminder that VGFacts has a section in the Resource Discord. That would enable the use of both voice and text chat, as well as linking imagery and videos.
https://discord.gg/0WTVjuJzSaZQgmNs
This isn't to say we're necessarily using the Disc, that's up to Mr. Though to decide.

Edit : Am I really on here that often?

[gamemaster1991]

Just thought I'd put out a reminder that VGFacts has a section in the Resource Discord. That would enable the use of both voice and text chat, as well as linking imagery and videos.
https://discord.gg/0WTVjuJzSaZQgmNs
This isn't to say we're necessarily using the Disc, that's up to Mr. Though to decide.

Edit : Am I really on here that often?

I have no idea what makes Discord better over Mumble (what we used last year), but if we are doing it on the 19th, it's really not going to matter to me since I'm not going to be talking that day.

Also, I'm a little surprised your the only one who got nominated since I'm sure that Petie and I have been on as much as you.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

Just thought I'd put out a reminder that VGFacts has a section in the Resource Discord. That would enable the use of both voice and text chat, as well as linking imagery and videos.
https://discord.gg/0WTVjuJzSaZQgmNs
This isn't to say we're necessarily using the Disc, that's up to Mr. Though to decide.

Edit : Am I really on here that often?

I'm up for either this or Mumble, whichever one is easiest to use !

---

Just thought I'd put out a reminder that VGFacts has a section in the Resource Discord. That would enable the use of both voice and text chat, as well as linking imagery and videos.
https://discord.gg/0WTVjuJzSaZQgmNs
This isn't to say we're necessarily using the Disc, that's up to Mr. Though to decide.

Edit : Am I really on here that often?

I have no idea what makes Discord better over Mumble (what we used last year), but if we are doing it on the 19th, it's really not going to matter to me since I'm not going to be talking that day.

Also, I'm a little surprised your the only one who got nominated since I'm sure that Petie and I have been on as much as you.

The nominations were unanimous on that one.

[Mass Distraction]

SERIOUSLY, there's a mistake in the Avatar nominations. Retrolinkx is the one who has the flipping squirrels in his avatar.

Oh, and I approve of Discord. People can use it even in their browser so even those who don't want to download Mumble or any other client and make them work properly can join. It's a simple "go there, give a username, check the validation email, done". I think it even works with people using Mumble and Skype so there are multiple ways of getting in, too.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

SERIOUSLY, there's a mistake in the Avatar nominations. Retrolinkx is the one who has the flipping squirrels in his avatar.

Oh, and I approve of Discord. People can use it even in their browser so even those who don't want to download Mumble or any other client and make them work properly can join. It's a simple "go there, give a username, check the validation email, done". I think it even works with people using Mumble and Skype so there are multiple ways of getting in, too.

Modified - If those who have already voted want to give me their new vote for this one, that would be lovely !

[Mass Distraction]

A few more things: CLX's Dream and Worst Luck links are dead. Kakariko's weird photo of Jesus with Hylian Shield is also a no show.