The Fifth Bi-Annual Ciddies - Nominations Open!
It's that time again...
Yes, that's right! Once again, the Official EoFF Awards - better known as The Ciddies - are back in town! As always, some longer-term categories have gone (Most Likely To Go Insane, Should EoFF Disappear) and some new ones have popped up in their places (Best Chatter), and even a few references to both social-ring jokes (Bashkar's Routine) and others of the more global kind (Darwin Awards). So, who will win? Well, that's up to you. Nominations begin NOW, and will go on for a week. Nominate the people that YOU think deserve a chance to win these awards. And you never know - it could be you. So come on - it doesn't matter if you're a newbie or an oldbie, I want your nominations! The nominations from newbies are what really make these things much more interesing. =]
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)
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
18) Best Avatar
19) Best Signature
20) Best Artist
21) Best Writer
22) Best Spammer
23) Best Chatter
24) Funniest Member
25) Weirdest Member
26) Horniest Member
27) Most Missed Member
28) Most Helpful Member
29) Most Productive Member
30) Cutest Couple
Most Likely To...
31) Become a Cid's Knight
32) Become a Recognized Member
33) Get Banned
34) Be a Time Traveller From The Past
35) Be a Time Traveller From The Future
36) Leave Simon Cowell Speechless
37) Be a Future Winner of a Darwin Award
38) Be an 83 Year Old War Veteran
39) Be Bribing Award Guy for a Ciddie
40) Be the Very Last EoFF Member
41) Be Officially Titled 'Unrecognized Member'
42) Feature on When Good Newbies Go Bad!
43) Fall For Bashkar's "I Can't Believe It's Not Sand!" Routine
44) End up riding a scooter in endless circles inside a sergeant's office at 3 in the morning
45) Get hit by a bus
46) Be driving the bus
47) Laugh at the member getting hit by the bus
48) Be David Hasselhoff
49) Be Pamela Anderson
50) Get Together
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 with custom ranks are considered veterans, and all other members are either regulars or newbies. Regular Members are those who have joined EoFF (for the first time) over 3 months ago, and Newbies have to have joined less than 3 months ago. Exactly 3 months? Ehhh... Newbie. And this goes from exactly 3 months from the time nominations opened (the 20th of August, 2003), not when you decide to nominate.
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.
*deep breath*
Also - You don't have to make nominations for every award.
Also - When voting, 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 person with access to the Award Guy account is BoB.
In addition to that - You can not post your nominations or votes until after the final voting has occurred - a thread will 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 - For a list of Recognized Members and Former Staff, click here.
Also - Let's keep it funGO! Nominate!
Nominations will close 12pm next Friday (28th November 2003) GMT, or sometime around 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.
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 - a record amount of nominators!
November 2002: 1635 nominations from 59 members
June 2003: 1651 nominations from 55 members - a record amount of nominations!
Past Total Vote
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 - both record amounts!
Let's break some records.
