The Mid-Year Ciddies 2006 - The 10th Ever Ciddies! Nominate!
X-Ciddies?
Guess who's back, back again... AG's back, okay, okay, I'll stop that. But yeah, man, I can't believe it. The tenth bi-annual Ciddies... awesome. It's been fun every time, and I'm expecting more of the same this year! Last time the Ciddies hit a new high, with record-breaking participation, and not just with nominations and votes - the prediction party (which will likely be started again once voting week begins), the award presenters, everything was just awesome. :) But anyway! It's great to be back after yet another long stint around the world, checking out various female specimens who just happen to be sisters of various forum members, and of course taking them out for some fun. Life is good. But now my calling has once again been made by BoB, and I've moved into his flat for the next two weeks and we'll be getting some top grade Ciddies action. As always, you'll see some all-new Ciddies along with the traditional battles, carefully selected to ensure that every Ciddie is open for competition. Roadrunner & Wile E. Coyote won the duos competition and therefore feature in Ciddies #48 and #49. Thanks to the people who helped me come up with these, it's always a bit tough coming up with them so all help was, as always appreciated. Hey, who reads this opening paragraph anyway? We all know you just want to get on with the show.
Nominating has now closed.
And the Ciddies are...
1) Best Member
2) Best Male
3) Best Female
4) Best Admin (no nominations)
5) Best Cid's Knight (no nominations)
6) Best Site Staff (no nominations)
7) Best Recognized Member/Former Staff (see rules) (THE LIST THE LIST THE LIST IT'S HERE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL READ THE LIST AND IF THEY ARE NOT ON THE LIST YOU CAN'T NOMINATE THEM FOR THIS ONE)
8) Best Veteran (see rules)
9) Best Regular (see rules)
10) Best Newbie (see rules)
11) Nicest Member
12) Evilest Member
13) Sexiest Male
14) Sexiest Female
15) Cutest Male
16) Cutest Female
17) Best Custom Rank (this might help)
18) Best Avatar
19) Best Signature
20) Best Artist
21) Best Graphic Designer
22) Best Writer
23) Best Poet
24) Best Poster
25) Best Spammer
26) Best Chatter
27) Funniest Member
28) Weirdest Member
29) Horniest Member
30) Most Underrated Member
31) Most Missed Member
32) Most Helpful Gamer
33) Most Helpful Techy
34) Most Helpful Member
35) Cutest Couple
Most Likely To...
36) Become a Cid's Knight
37) Get Banned
38) Become a Rockstar
39) Become the Rockstar's Extremely Obsessive Fangirl
40) Cry when Mufasa dies in the Lion King even though they've seen the film 50 times
41) Win a Ciddie for the very first time (see rule #13) (past Ciddies winners)
42) Be plotting to destroy the internet, beginning with EoFF
43) Be saying they're twice as old as they actually are so they can avoid the COPPA forms
44) Be a 45 year old man having a mid-life crisis
45) Get Hit By A Bus
46) Be Driving The Bus
47) Sell their car for gas money
48) Be Roadrunner
49) Be Wile E. Coyote
50) Get Together
Nominating has now closed.
And now for the fine print.
Rule #1 - You can nominate yourself for no more than two awards, excluding Cutest Couple.
Rule #2 - You can nominate any one member for no more than five awards, excluding Cutest Couple.
Rule #3 - Do not post your nominations - PM them.
Rule #4 - PM nominations to Award Guy, not Loony BoB.
Rule #5 - PM your nominations by the closing date.
Rule #6 - Do not spam up the Ciddies Thread with self-advertising.
Rule #7 - You can not nominate more than one person per award. If you do, I'll take the first one you've nominated.
Rule #8 - You can't be nominated for avatar, custom rank and/or sig if you do not have an avatar, custom rank and/or sig - unless you remove them at some time during the Ciddies.
Rule #9 - You can change your avatar, custom rank and/or sig during nominations and finals. This shouldn't cause any major issues, as you can only earn what awards you recieve, be the votes late or early, that's your problem.
Rule #10 - Changes can be made once, and additions can be made however often you like. Please title any PM's with Changes as 'Nomination Changes' or 'Vote Changes', and the same for additions (only 'Additions' should replace 'Changes' in the title. Duh).
Rule #11 - You can only be nominated/voted for one of the 'rank-categorized-awards'. Best Admin, Cid's Knight and Site Staff have automatic entry for all of the obvious included members. Recognized Members AND Former Staff will require nominations - these will be in the same group. All other people who registered before 27th September 2005 are considered veterans, and all other members are either regulars or newbies. Regular Members are those who have joined EoFF (for the first time) after the date of 26th September 2005 and before the date of 27th February 2006. Newbies are those who have joined (for the first time) from 27th February 2006 onwards.
Rule #12 You can't nominate a male for any Ciddie with the word "female" in it, and you can't nominate a female for any Ciddie with the word 'male' in it. If it doesn't have 'male' or 'female' in it, you can nominate a member of either gender.
Rule #13 Nominations for Ciddie #41 must NOT be past Ciddies winners.
*deep breath*
Also - You don't have to make nominations for every award.
Also - When nominating, please think not of overall, but purely of the last six months. In other words, if someone was really helpful one year ago, and they don't help much now, they shouldn't get that award. This is purely for the occurances of the last six months!
Also - The Cutest Couple award does not count into the five nominations for another member of your choice, or your self-nominations.
Also - All nominations are strictly confidential - the only other person with access to the Award Guy account is Loony BoB.
In addition to that - You can not post your nominations or votes until after the final voting has occurred - a thread can be made for them a bit after the results are shown.
Also - To be nominated into the second round for an award, a member must obtain two nominations in that award. However, should eight members all recieve three nominations, then the cut-off will be raised to three nominations, and the same for eight members recieving four nominations each, and so on.
Also - People who are currently couples shouldn't be voted as Most Likely To Get Together - this is for people who are NOT already couples. By 'Get Together', I mean 'Become A Couple'.
Also - People who are NOT currently couples shouldn't be voted as Cutest Couple - this is for people who ARE already couples.
Also - I hold the right to reject any nominations/votes for any reason, most often this is that the member hasn't been active in the forums or chatroom in the past six months.
Also - The only Ciddies a banned member can be nominated for are Most Missed and Best Chatter.
Also - For a list of Recognized Members and Former Staff, click here.
Also - For a list of past Ciddies winners, click here.
Also - Award Guy, Election Booth and second accounts are only allowed to be voted for the MLT (Most Likely To...) and Profile (Custom Title, Avatar, Signature) Ciddies.
Also - If a member belongs to more than one group (eg. Former Staff AND Site Staff) then they are eligible ONLY for the first of those groups to appear in the list. This covers Ciddies for Best Admin, Cid's Knight, Site Staff, Recognized Member/Former Staff, Veteran, Regular and Newbie.
Also - Let's keep it fun :) GO! Nominate!
Nominations will close 12pm next Friday (3rd June 2006) GMT, or sometime after then when I feel like it (I like to keep it open if I know I can break a records - see below for those ;)). Or if I'm not there then, it'll be when I next arrive.
Nominating has now closed.
Remember, I am 100% responsible for your satisfaction as a bootcamp participant.
Past Total Nominations
November 2001: 1632 nominations
June 2002: 1591 nominations from 61 members
November 2002: 1635 nominations from 59 members
June 2003: 1651 nominations from 55 members
November 2003: 1837 nominations from 66 members
June 2004: 1693 nominations from 60 members
December 2004: 1973 nominations from 71 members
June 2005: 2277 nominations from 76 members
December 2005: 2394 nominations from 92 members - a record amount of nominations from a record amount of nominators!
Past Total Votes
November 2001: 2817 votes
June 2002: 2753 votes from 64 members
November 2002: 2163 votes from 49 members
June 2003: 3453 votes from 77 members
November 2003: 3466 votes from 87 members
June 2004: 3267 votes from 75 members
December 2004: 3666 votes from 93 members
June 2005: 4678 votes from 107 members
December 2005: 4727 votes from 112 members - a record amount of votes from a record amount of voters!
The Ciddies are sponsored by Eyes on Final Fantasy, The Ciddies Committee, the Cookie Monster smiley and A Picture Of A Turkey Hitting A Dog.
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