The Ciddies - Nominations Thread - NOMINATING HAS CLOSED.
It's about bloody time!
Gudday gudday gudday, and welcome to the O-fishy-L EoFF Awards, better known as the Ciddies. They go on every half year, some people love to hate 'em, some people hate to love 'em, but we all know the place just wouldn't be the same without those good ol' Cid-on-a-sticks fluffing about. This year features a change for the previous five events where there were 30 main awards and 20 "Most Likely" awards. The Award Category Organisation crew got together and decided a 40/10 split would be better this year as the demand for the big gongs grows stronger and the competition grows tighter. In fact, we only had enough room for one of the trademark obscure awards that will undoubtedly cause you all to ask for explanations over! This will work against some people who have a reputation for doing well in the MLT awards, but, well, uh... they can just sod off. Yeah. A long time award has been dropped this time, with Most Productive Member being passed aside in favour of the Best Site Staff award introduced in the last Ciddies - this won't include Senior Site Staff, of course, so the real workers will get a more accurate thankyou. A few new awards have been sent in, and the artist and writer awards have been split in two as graphic art becomes more prominent and poetry and story writing efforts will both be recognised. So, without further delay, here's what we have in store for discussion over the next two weeks!
EDIT ON 19/06/2004: Please note that nominating has now closed and no further nominations will be accepted.
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) (list)
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 Graphic Designer
22) Best Writer
23) Best Poet
24) Best Spammer
25) Best Chatter
26) Biggest Smartass
27) Biggest Dumbass
28) Funniest Member
29) Weirdest Member
30) Horniest Member
31) Shadiest Member
32) Most Suave Member
33) Most Hopeless Member
34) Most Overrated Member
35) Most Underrated Member
36) Most Innocent Member
37) Least Innocent Member
38) Most Missed Member
39) Most Helpful Member
40) Cutest Couple
Most Likely To...
41) Become a Cid's Knight
42) Become a Recognized Member
43) Get Banned
44) Be the leader of an EoFF underground
45) Get hit by a bus
46) Be driving the bus
47) Laugh at the member getting hit by the bus
48) Be Batman
49) Be Robin
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) before the date of 12th March, 2004. Newbies joined from 13th of March 2004 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.
*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 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 - For a list of Recognized Members and Former Staff, click here.
Also - Let's keep it funGO! Nominate!
Nominations will close 12pm next Friday (19th June 2004) 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
November 2002: 1635 nominations from 59 members
June 2003: 1651 nominations from 55 members
November 2003: 1837 nominations from 66 members - a record amount of nominations from a record amount of nominators!
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
November 2003: 3466 votes from 87 members - a record amount of votes from a record amount of voters!
And to finish it all off, here's a picture of a turkey hitting a dog.
Originally Posted by kirk81
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