SPB Awards 2011

[DJGrandPa]

Jan 27, 2011 16:37:00 GMT -5 McJesus said:

why does everyone make such a big deal out of such a little thing

Stop being little girls and be MEN instead and vote, let the mods fix dis shit up without a pointless argument that stretches 3 pages.

Be cool, be nice, be MEN

[destructin]

This isn't a big issue. Kryten agrees with DryChris and I can't really change his opinions.

If you guys don't want copy pasted looking stuff, then all of you will require a short summary to why you chose the voter, no more one worded votes.

[charlie]

Jan 27, 2011 18:52:33 GMT -5 destructin said:

This isn't a big issue. Kryten agrees with DryChris and I can't really change his opinions.

If you guys don't want copy pasted looking stuff, then all of you will require a short summary to why you chose the voter, no more one worded votes.

des, if you were a good mod you would see this is innacceptable, without minding that you would lose a vote in 4 spots

[Psibat]

Jan 27, 2011 18:52:33 GMT -5 destructin said:

This isn't a big issue. Kryten agrees with DryChris and I can't really change his opinions.

If you guys don't want copy pasted looking stuff, then all of you will require a short summary to why you chose the voter, no more one worded votes.

I feel better about writing all those explanations now

[Candy Biu]

Jan 27, 2011 12:18:53 GMT -5 Psibat said:

Most Clever User
CandyBiu - You set up the Grimdark Pokémon RP, and even though I haven't joined, I can't think how long and how much thought you put into it.

Thanks, I tried.

[destructin]

Jan 27, 2011 19:02:27 GMT -5 charlie said:

des, if you were a good mod you would see this is innacceptable, without minding that you would lose a vote in 4 spots

I told Kryten to fix his posts, everyone is required to add a summary now, few words to get the message straight.
I won't make it mandatory to the people who already made their votes (Unless they want to), but to new voters, thank MVG and Rety for their concerns.

Oh yeah, Kryten you gotta fix your post though, sorryyy.

[retyuoligkl]

no problem des
anytime

[Zarth]

So much drama over such a small issue.

[Metal Chao]

And pointing out that people are whining makes you better... how?
I mean, this post is stupid too but I'm openly acknowledging that it makes me a hypocrite.

[John12346]

Brawler of the Year
Markus, I guess. He's got that smug attitude, an insanely cool moveset, etc.

Best Artist
McJesus, no contest on this one. He rarely draws nowadays, but I still view him as WAY TOO GOOD.

Best Mod
Grent. To my knowledge, he's the only one aside from myself who doesn't go SUPER RAGE MODE over everything lol. There's a reason I'm not nominating myself for this over that reason, and that's...

Worst Mod
John12346, that fgt doesn't do a damn thing

We Miss You
DanielRatherman. He was one of those guys. With that old timey sense of humor... he had it... argh can't believe he left.

The Newcomer of The Year
Metal Chao. Extremely nice user, with one of the coolest artistic styles I've seen in a very long time.

Worst User
Not answering.

Best Veteran
Balto-Boy. I'm referring to the character OR the user, depending on what this award is for. Balto's a cool guy, and his character Balto's a cool character.

Coolest Hat
Rety. Sorry Grim, but that hat has freaking AI. I cannot overlook that kind of badassery.

Hardest To Draw
Applecore. If you don't know who I'm talking about, check Balto's roster.

Best Thread
One Week Battle, considering that's the only thread I'm actually active in. >___>;

Worst Thread
The Birthday Thread. Imo it serves no real purpose.

Best Grudgematch
Balto vs Rety. The humor. It's pure GOLD.
It's also waiting for a response from Rety...

Coolest User
Madvideogamer is a pretty cool guy. He doesn't afraid of anyone and doesn't afraid of anyone.

Most Clever User
Metal Chao. I've seen him do so many things in the Main Arena, and all of them. ALL OF THEM were in context and thought outside of the box for the most part.

Most Improved
Jacobdg. He didn't stay on the site for very long, but we talked for a bit via PM, and he definitely is a nicer now. Also, his current style is 500 steps up from the art style he had before he received that permaban way back in the day...

Best Pic of the Year
There was a better picture in the thread I linked this from, but broken images suck.

SPOILER: Click to show

Best Contributor
Grimscott. I just seem to see her posting around a lot. In a good way.

Innovation of the Year
I guess Random Thread. It helps stop spam topics, although we usually don't have problems with that anyway.

Funniest User
Rety. HE'S FREAKIN' RETY.

Most Explosive Personality
McJesus. he mad

Most Underrated User
Metal Chao. I see very few people praising his works.

Most annoying user
Not answering.

[Gront]

John, your choice for pic of the year is from 2009. Barely.

[McJesus]

Brawler of the Year
des, guy drew everything everywhere

Best Artist
rety? he needs to draw more fancy things for me, but he is still fabulous.

Best Mod
screw you rety grim does the most out of any of us

Worst Mod
me

We Miss You
rabies, even though you're posting YOU'RE STILL MISSING FROM MY HEART

The Newcomer of The Year
rety, even though metalchao has totally won it

Worst User
asdfjkl; i dont think anyone was bad enough to get this title

Best Veteran
grim.

Coolest Hat
grims tophat is a seal for a DEMON. DEMONS!

Hardest To Draw
balto, god damn it i hate your stupid face

Best Thread
one week. awesome way to regularly contribute to spb.

Worst Thread
randomthreadRANDOMTHREAD

Best Grudgematch
this has been a really bad year for grudges. luxure vs messiah was probably the most memorable <:U

Coolest User
rabies. no explanation required.

Most Clever User
(uhh ill get back to this one)

Most Improved
grim? (i might return to this, i havent been keeping progress)

Best Pic of the Year

SPOILER: Click to show

( i vote for the same picture as grent. great form and pose with gunsmith, loved the .jpg nature of dj, etc etc )

Best Contributor
des. or grim? both!

Innovation of the Year
pretty sure we started making headway into the site this year. a good move for us.

Funniest User
(oh god, i dont know who to choose)

Jan 28, 2011 2:56:59 GMT -5 John12346 said:

Most Explosive Personality
McJesus. he mad

Most Underrated User
metalchao? although he is pretty loved, it seems..

Most annoying user
lolnitro. but he's already dialing it back, so idk.

[charlie]

uoio konow wath wuld hepl nxt yer? pm ur votes

[Hawshman]

Brawler of the Year
Markus - just instinct to put him here.


Best Artist
Baltoboy


Best Mod
Grent - no reason, just the only mod that came to mind D:


We Miss You
santiva - just do D:


The Newcomer of The Year
josh


Worst User
nitro - cause ive had a conversation with my fellow pal about him

Best Veteran
John123456


Coolest Hat
Grimscott


Hardest To Draw
Mcjesus


Best Thread
IRL


Best Grudgematch
Destructin vs Snakeskull


Coolest User
dont knowD:


Most Clever User
Zarth

Most Improved
shackles - when i first joined his drawings were way different to they are now, huge improvement good job buddy!


Best Pic of the Year

SPOILER: Click to show

Best Contributor
Destructin


Innovation of the Year
The SPB tournament


Funniest User
MVG - just find his art humorous in ways :3


Most Underrated User
Shackles


Most annoying user
Christopher.

[Grimscott]

Jan 26, 2011 20:09:24 GMT -5 @retyuoligkl said:

Worst Thread
That pony thread was really dumb grim

That sure didn't stop you from requesting things.

Brawler of the Year
I want to say Destructin in general. Yeah yeah, not technically a Brawler, but still! The fact that he has a pacifist Brawler based on shooting steam at people who can STILL kick some ass really says something. Marckus is an indisputable badass, Banana is adorable, Pirahna Man is intimidating as hell. . .I could go on.

Best Artist
Shackles is very stylish. Have you seen his new profile? Simply fantastic.

Best Mod
Destructin. Des is always pretty cool about things and even-tempered. He's great about getting people to stop fussing.

Worst Mod
John12346. He never does anything besides post in 1 Week or the SSBB thread.

We Miss You
Robotkilla. His pictures were really improved and downright stellar in the Tourney, it's really a shame we didn't see much more from him.

The Newcomer of The Year
Metalchao, who is comparable to Des in the sense that he is very reasonable and a nice guy. He has good art and characters too, plus a great sense of humor (lightens the mood, never see him get pissed at folks, very patient). And he likes MSPA. That is always a good thing.

Worst User
Qwetroop has a lot of work ahead of him.

Best Veteran


Coolest Hat
Rety. Okay, so he didn't have much competition, but it can shoot things! That's pretty cool.

Best Thread
Red vs. Blue was pretty good for a while.

Worst Thread
Am I allowed to choose this one?

Best Grudgematch
Luxure vs. Messiah, no contest. (I love how the best Grudge is the one with the least fighting.)

Coolest User
Psibat. Because I said so.

Most Clever User
Candy, who definitely deserves some mad props for the Pokemon RP.

Most Improved
DJ Grandpa. He's really figuring out his style, and that's great to see.

Best Pic of the Year

SPOILER: Click to show

Best Contributor
Grent. He's worked on the website and even the more recent wiki.

Innovation of the Year
Website! I should not have to explain this.

Funniest User
Spuddy is pretty funny.

Most Explosive Personality
Rety. He flips out at stuff a lot.

Most Underrated User
Spudmeister. Seconding Des here, I really do like his stuff.

Most annoying user
MVG. Pissy, passive-aggressive, plus his art and his typing style have been really lazy for a while.

[Candy Biu]

Jan 31, 2011 2:54:56 GMT -5 Grimscott said:

Most Clever User
Candy, who definitely deserves some mad props for the Pokemon RP.

Yay!

[Gront]

Brawler of the Year - Marckus has kicked a lot of ass this year.

Best Artist - I'll go with Spud. He makes things pretty.

Best Mod - Eh, I abstain from this one. We're all pretty swell in our own ways.

Worst Mod - (see above)

We Miss You - I was gonna say DanielRatherman, but apparently he's back now. Let's go with RobotKilla because he's not around, it seems.

The Newcomer of The Year - Metal Chao. Slick art, and a level head.

Worst User - I don't know if there's been anyone who's been so shitty of a user for the whole year that they deserve this.

Best Veteran - We all suck so screw you. I'll probably take this award out next year cause no one knows who the vets are anymore.

Coolest Hat - Rety I guess. Not too many hats around anymore, and his is the only one that is also a robot.

Hardest To Draw - Considering I never have to actually draw Gyree (plus I think you guys overestimate the difficulty in drawing him), I'll go with Balto. I can never get his face right.

Best Thread - Back to Basics. I was about to join, but then like three people posted at once, plus my computer unexpectedly shut down and I lost a ton of progress on the pic I was making. Sad day.

Worst Thread - This is a tie between these two. The former because the OP didn't have a good enough idea of what the hell he was doing to actually get the thread off the ground, the latter because I never really though an entire thread of first-person pics would make a good thread.

Best Grudgematch - I really really want to say this one just because I liked the concept so much, but since it died after two pics, my official vote goes to Steamy vs. Brianna.

Coolest User - Destructin. He's cool.

Most Clever User - Metal Chao for not only putting up with the child bullshit, but making me happy that it happened.

Most Improved - DJGrandpa's style has cleaned up a lot in the short time he's been here.

Best Pic of the Year

SPOILER: Click to show

I reserve the right to change this later if I come across a better one, but this one made me lol so hard when I first saw it.

Best Contributor - If you tally up all the pics this year, I'd bet that, due to one-week, Balto has the most.

Innovation of the Year - Cleaning up the environment (thread).

Funniest User - Shackles because I CAN'T DECIDE.

Most Explosive Personality - McJesus. Because he makes explosions or something.

Most Underrated User - DJGrandpa. Sure, he's not the most artistically proficient, but he's a solid contributor and generally cool guy.

Most annoying user - A lot of you guys are putting Nitro down for this one, but personally I'd say that, due to the circumstances in which he left, Taylor is more apt for this award.

[John12346]

Actually, over the course of 2010, I've posted the most in OWB. Consider that I've posted pics long before my timer was going to run out on multiple occasions. Balto generally waits until the end of his timer to post(which necessarily isn't a bad thing, but I'm just saying).

Actually, this just came to mind, but I think I actually drew the most stuff over the course of 2010. In terms of number of pictures drawn, or in terms of total number of pixels used.

With that said, though, I don't think I should get that award based on that criteria, because what can be defined as contributing can extend further than simply drawing pictures.

[Gront]

Jan 31, 2011 7:56:20 GMT -5 John12346 said:

Actually, over the course of 2010, I've posted the most in OWB. Consider that I've posted pics long before my timer was going to run out on multiple occasions. Balto generally waits until the end of his timer to post(which necessarily isn't a bad thing, but I'm just saying).

Actually, this just came to mind, but I think I actually drew the most stuff over the course of 2010. In terms of number of pictures drawn, or in terms of total number of pixels used.

With that said, though, I don't think I should get that award based on that criteria, because what can be defined as contributing can extend further than simply drawing pictures.

So I went back and checked, and I didn't realize how far back you had actually joined with Spike. Still, you're a jerk and don't fight like a man.

[John12346]

Hey hey, I'm pulling out the stops now, aren't I?

Because people are actually attacking Spike now. -___ -;

[DJGrandPa]

LoL, Grent's "best pic" almost had me ROFL'ing, damn, I still laugh when I see it xD

[Spudmeister]

Brawler of the Year
Markus because everyone's voting for him and I can't think of anyone else.

Best Artist
MVG, because des is gonna win anyways, I like his style, and he draws unbelievably well for 13.

Best Mod
Des cause he killed the "this really isn't a grudge anymore" thing.

Worst Mod
McJ cause he made fun of the way i draw guys :'C

We Miss You
Uuuuh

The Newcomer of The Year
Metal Chao cause he's a p. spiffy guy.

Worst User
Qwetrooper. The guy is like 6 or something jesus christ.

Best Veteran
UM DES I GUESS I DUNNO.

Coolest Hat
Rety's. It's a robot.

Hardest To Draw
I haven't really run into anyone who's that difficult to draw yet.

Best Thread
RvB cause it was just cool okay.

Worst Thread
Can't think of anything.

Best Grudgematch
Steamy vs. Brianna. Just so d'aaaaw.

Most Clever User
Candy for the Pokemon RP definitely.

Most Improved
DJGrandpa. Compared to his first picture posted in his art thread he's really improved.

Best Pic of the Year

SPOILER: Click to show

Best Contributor
Des fo sho yo.

Innovation of the Year
The site hurpa derpa

Funniest User
Des I guess.

Most Explosive Personality
Rety. No issue is too small for him to bitch about
hes taking this up to maximum level

Most Underrated User
DJGrandpa. He might not be the best artist but I'll be damned if he doesn't try.

Most annoying user
eh i dunno

[retyuoligkl]

man im taking this up to MAXIMUM level

[charlie]

Jan 31, 2011 2:54:56 GMT -5 Grimscott said:

typing style.

lol

[retyuoligkl]

Its funny because he made a lazy post that proved what grim said just to spite her
i wanna say thats called irony or satire but im probably wrong and ill just end up looking stupid
so ill just say i found it funny

[charlie]

or the sheer ridiculousness of what she pointed out is funny

[retyuoligkl]

no you know what
BOTH
now its just HILARIOUS

[Gront]

I think this is what she meant by "passive aggressive," MVG.

[Shackles]

Brawler of the Year
I think Destructin has some very cool brawlers. They stand out and are just made better because Des is a good contributor and uses his brawlers frequently. My favorite of Destructin's brawlers is Steamy, so I'm going to nominate him. I like Steamy because spewing out hot gas seems like a weak/useless power, but Des still manages to make him a tough brawler. I really respect underpowered characters that can still become top-tier brawlers when used correctly.

Best Artist
MVG. When he went from his little "cartoon" style a while ago, it seemed like people gave him a lot of shit when he started to draw all this anime stuff, and when I first talked to MVG I gave him shit about it too. But his new style has actually really grown on me, and even though he has made some lazy drawings, he's also shown he's capable of some pretty amazing stuff. His anatomy isn't the best, but not everyone really wants to have perfect anatomy and details. His art is cool and stylish and he's just an all-around cool guy.

Best Mod
Both Grent and Destructin are terrific mods, and they both have different things that they offer to SPB, so I will decide which I vote for Best Mod with a coin-flip.

Grent- Since Grent became a mod, he was instantly helpful to the site and has been a very fair mod, as well as a nice guy. He's a good contributor and a respectable artist with an original and cool style. He's done a lot of work to try and get SPB it's own site, and he's done his fair share of work as a mod.

Destructin- Destructin seems to offer less than Grent as a mod, but more as just a general user with his contribution and improvement as an artist. He did really well in the tournament and was (mostly) a good sport even though he lost a couple matches. He participated in a lot of new grudges and contributed a lot to threads like RvB. It might seem like I should go for the person who does more as a mod, but Des is great as a general user and he's a mod too, so it is up to the coin who I vote for.

Des: Heads
Grent: Tails
Result: Heads. I vote Des for best mod.

Worst Mod
I'm not even going to bother voting on this one. Not because I'm afraid to vote for who I don't think did well as a mod, but because there's 3 people who I think did equally bad as mods.

John12346- John, I like you , you're a cool guy, but you definitely are not a top-tier moderator. I could say you contributed a lot, but really you only did much in one thread, 1 Week Battle, and it seems to me that it's only because 1 Week forces you to keep participating. As a mod, you've missed a lot of opportunities to actually moderate things, and it's clear that you aren't very concerned with your duties as a moderator. (Also, I really don't like that you try to enforce that "You have to do something in your picture for it to count" rule for 1 Week Battle, because you break that rule more than anyone else. Just saying.)

McJ- It's hard to be nice about this one. McJ, you've done practically nothing as a moderator, contributed practically nothing since the tournament, and you're also just generally an asshole to people. None of these are qualities that a good mod has. At least, not the first two.

Grim- I think you have a different problem from McJ and John12346. You participate a decent amount, and do a lot with your mod powers, but I seriously disagree with a lot of decisions you've made. You seem to make a lot of very biased decisions with your mod powers, particularly when dealing with MVG, and I do not approve of that. You also seem to lose your cool with some users *coughGHOSTcough*, and I think being patient is an important quality in moderators. I think some of your decisions make it seem like you're desperately trying to offer something as a moderator, like when you pointed out that you're the one who does all the Brawlio transactions, so that you can keep your mod status, and I think that if you were really a great moderator, you wouldn't have to do that.

We Miss You
Although there's nobody that I really miss, there is someone that I think is worth mentioning. Dan Ratherman. He was a cool guy, participated a lot 1 Week Battle, although I don't consider posting tons of times in one thread as great contribution, it really stands out when he was such a new user at the time and he was able to keep up with the other people in 1WB. He was a respectable artist with an interesting character and an interesting style.

The Newcomer of The Year
Spudmeister. I met Spud a long time ago in a Tinychat room for one of those Facepunch threads, and although he doesn't remember me from back then, I still think that he's made a lot of improvement as an artist since I first met him. He's always quite a few steps ahead of me as an artist, and he is helpful to other users with his tips. Though I sometimes disagree with his standards on art, I think he's a talented artist and a good contributor for the time that he's been here.

Worst User
Kryten. Seriously, Kryten, I have a huge problem with you. You come around every, what, 3 months? You contribute close to NOTHING to SPB, and yet you still expect to get a sidebar on the SPB site by begging your buddies from FP to revive your ancient grudge matches for you. I know for a fact that the only reason you're trying to "participate" so much recently is because you're extremely desperate to have your art displayed on SPB.com. I know I have no say in it, but you are not deserving of that at all. Every time I think my respect for you is as low as it can be, you pull something that makes me dislike you even more. You've shown that you are not a good contributor, or even a good user in general for SPB. You've badmouthed me and probably other SPB users, and you took McJ's roster template without permission, and after all you've done, the last thing you could possibly do is fess up to your mistakes and apologize. No, you have to play it off all innocent and dumb. I also dislike you as an artist, and I find it absolutely infuriating that you say I can't draw a decent picture at all, when all of your characters are the same shaggy-haired quirky person with energy powers/guns that nobody cares about. Even your female characters are clones of your main character, and you lack structure in your art so you try to support it by adding tons of little scribbly details and dull colors. Kryten easily gets my vote for Worst User here.

Best Veteran
I will say Grent, for the same reasons I listed under the Best Mod category. He contributes a lot as a mod and he's a very dedicated to the new site and SPB as a whole. He's the only person who can draw with the curve tool and still be a top-tier artist. He's brought a lot of significant things to SPB, from the Really Tall Tower to his work on SPB.com. He is a cool guy.

Coolest Hat
To be honest, fuck hats. Hats are overrated. If I have to pick one, I will say DC's crown, just because crowns stand out a bit more to me. Parody Man has a crown too, but I like DryChris' better. It seems to really fit with his character. Mostly, I pick DC's crown because I am tired of tophats. Tophats are cool, but they have been done to hell and back. It seems like every other active member has a character with a top hat, and it's getting a bit old, especially the way that the tophat is always emphasized in some way on whichever character has it. Other people seem to be more casual with their hats, but then characters with tophats always have some special thing about it. Also fanciness is overrated.

Hardest To Draw
I'm going to say Gyree, just like everyone else. I know Zarth has been kind of mad because his character has been left behind for this category, but Gyree seems to have something about him that makes him extremely difficult to draw. There's something that I respect about Gyree's difficulty, I think it's that the reason he's hard to draw is just because of his weird shape and figure, rather than his tons of details and accessories that you see with Zarth and other characters.

Best Thread
1 Week Battle. I just enjoy that it has a different way of playing, and it always finds a way of reviving itself just because of how it's rules work. It's come a long ways as a thread and I like that people being forced to post there once a week really brings out their creativity (or sometimes their desperation).

Worst Thread
Official Environment. I don't think it's a badly-constructed thread or a stupid idea, but I've already given my two cents on it. I'm all for the sharing of ideas, but not when half the ideas that come out are either overly complicated and unusable or extremely simple and underdeveloped. I really like the older arenas like Brawl City and Aerial Assault, and they seriously outshine all these new "biomes" and opposite-versions of everything.

Best Grudgematch
RIALTO VS. MALICE
THAT WAS SOME INTENSE ACTION RIGHT THERE BRO

Coolest User
Even though Rabies doesn't come around/draw much any more, I have to say that he's a pretty cool guy. I like his taste in music, Rockin' Rabies is my favorite brawler, and he just has that kind of attitude that makes him seem like a badass.

Most Clever User
I don't know. To be honest, I really prefer straightforward, angry, violent brawling over people who try to "think outside the box". Battling tends to get a lot more energetic and interesting when people aren't caught up in using the environment to their advantage and combining powers and shit like that. Exploiting a brawler's weakness is the most complicated thing I like to see. Other than that, fuck anyone who thinks they're all "creative" and "special" just because they prefer cheap tricks and overly-complicated plans over lightning bolts and explosions.

Most Improved
DryChris. He's improved a lot in both years that he's been here, in both his drawings and his general attitude. He has a lot of determination as an artist and he's really pushing himself to compete with other good artists and to be an all-around good user.

-Alright I've had enough of these summaries I'm just gonna give names-

Best Pic of the Year

SPOILER: Click to show

Best Contributor
DES

Innovation of the Year
ANIMATED GRUDGES OH WAIT WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE

Funniest User
NOBODY YOU'RE ALL UNFUNNY

Most Explosive Personality
MCJ GET IT BECAUSE HE DOES STUFF WITH EXPLOSIONS WHICH IS IRONIC BECAUSE HE IS ACTUALLY KIND OF A DOWNER

Most Underrated User
CHOWDERBALBOA

Most annoying user
I'm pretty sure that the person who gets "Worst User" is also getting "Most annoying user", just because they're both awards that you give to the person who irks you the most. You don't despise someone enough to say they're the worst user on the site, then say someone annoys you more than they do. I'm just saying that someone you dislike and think did a bad job as a user is also going to be a person who annoys you a lot, whether it's through their logical fallacies or general douchebaggery.

[Gront]

Most Underrated User
CHOWDERBALBOA

I WILL KILL YOU.