2008 End of year Ciddie nominations!!! NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED

[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Award Girl bringing you another most excellent Ciddies!
*cue fanfare*

Thanks everyone, I'm happy to be here, and no Blue Harvest, I won't show my boobs. This year, in a cruel twist of fate, the cutest and sexiest folks at EoFF will have to battle it out for the same award! Yes, yes, I know, most sinfully delicious.

I know everyone's exceited to get underway with their nominations, so I'll present the categories for these Ciddies. Please send your nominations via PM to me, Award Girl by roughly 18:00 GMT on Thursday, December 4th, because that's when I want to close them and I can do that because I'm the boss.

And please read the rules. For the love of all that is furry and squishy, please read the rules.

And the Ciddies are:

1) Best Member
2) Best Male
3) Best Female
4) Best Administrator (no nominations)
5) Best Cid's Knight (no nominations)
6) Best Site Staff (no nominations)
7) Best Recognized Member / Former Staff (see rule #11) THE LIST
8) Best Veteran (see rule #11)
9) Best Regular (see rule #11)
10) Best Newbie (see rule #11)
11) Nicest Member
12) Evilest Member
13) Cutest/Sexiest Male
14) Cutest/Sexiest Female
15) Most Dangerous Male
16) Most Dangerous Female
17) Best Thread
18) Best Post (see rule #16)
19) Best Custom Rank
20) Best Avatar
21) Best Signature
22) Best Artist
23) Best Graphic Designer
24) Best Writer
25) Best Poet
26) Best Poster
27) Best Spammer
28) Best Chatter
29) Best Usernoter
30) Funniest Member
31) Weirdest Member
32) Horniest Member
33) Most Underrated Member
34) Most Improved Member
35) Most Missed Member
36) Most Hardcore Gamer
37) Most Helpful Gamer
38) Most Helpful Techy
39) Most Helpful Member
40) Cutest Couple (see rule #13)

Most Likely To...

41) Become a Cid's Knight
42) Get Banned
43) Win a Ciddie for the very first time THE LIST
44) Most likely to be an underage Olympic gymnast
45) Most likely to be trolled
46) MLT be Santa
47) MLT be Santa's little helper
48) MLT be a reincarnation of Buddha
49) Member most dropped as an infant
50) Get Together (see rule #15)

All nominations are strictly confidential - the only other people with access to the Award Girl account are Loony BoB and Mulley.

The Rules:
[mulley]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 Girl, not anyone else![/mulley]
Rule #5 - PM your nominations by the closing date.
Rule #6 - Do not spam up the Ciddies Thread with self-advertising.
Rule #7 - You cannot 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).
[mulley]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 members who registered between 1999 and May 31st 2007 are considered veterans, all other members who registered between June 1st 2007 and May 31st 2008 are considered regulars and all other members who registered June 1st 2008 and later are considered newbies.[/mulley]
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.
[mulley]Rule #13 - People who are NOT currently couples shouldn't be voted as Cutest Couple - this is for people who ARE already couples.[/mulley]
Rule #14 Nominations for Ciddie #43 must NOT be past Ciddies winners.
[mulley]Rule #15 - 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'.[/mulley]
Rule #16 - Please provide the single post link and not the permalink for your Best Post nomination. Various people use various posts-per-page settings so the permalink isn't reliable.
Rule #17 - Aerith's Knight can't nominate or vote.

*deep breath*

Also - You don't have to make nominations for every award.
[mulley]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 occurrences of the last six months![/mulley]
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 people with access to the Award Girl account are Loony BoB and Jess.
In addition to that - You cannot publically 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 receive three nominations, then the cut-off will be raised to three nominations, and the same for eight members receiving four nominations each, and so on. The only exception to this rule will be if only 1-3 members will be cut, meaning it's not worth the change.
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.
[mulley]Also - For a list of Recognized Members and Former Staff, THE LIST - by the way - only Recognized Members and Former Staff who have been active in the last year are included in this list, and if you nominate somebody outside the list the nomination will not be accepted.[/mulley]
Also - For a list of past Ciddies winners, THE LIST
Also - Award Girl, 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 - Banned members are only allowed to be voted for the Best Chatter and Most Missed Member Ciddies.
Also - If a member belongs to more than one group (e.g. 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!

Past Total Nominations
December 2001: 1632 nominations
June 2002: 1591 nominations from 61 members
December 2002: 1635 nominations from 59 members
June 2003: 1651 nominations from 55 members
December 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
June 2006: 2610 nominations from 106 members
December 2006: 2733 nominations from 108 members (RECORD!)
June 2007: 2199 nominations from 86 members
December 2007: 2751 nominations from 99 members
June 2008: 1640 nominations from 55 members

Past Total Votes
December 2001: 2817 votes
June 2002: 2753 votes from 64 members
December 2002: 2163 votes from 49 members
June 2003: 3453 votes from 77 members
December 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
June 2006: 5112 votes from 126 members
December 2006: 5326 votes from 130 members (RECORD!)
June 2007: 4858 votes from 109 members
December 2007: 4993 votes from 126 members
June 2008: 3264 votes from 77 members