Ciddies - Episode VIII: Two Episodes Better than the Star Wars Series

[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

The Ciddies Return!

Lalala, I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Well, after a long time touring the world checking out your sisters, I've finally headed back to the house o' BoB to annex his computer and give you guys all a good time. So. Last time around, we broke every record open to us and edged closer to getting 100 voters - maybe this time, eh? Here's hoping. We've made a few changes to the lineup - we haven't introduced any new main awards, I'll admit, but we've taken five of them away as well as a few of the MLT's and have seven all-new Ciddies down at the bottom in the first ever 35/15 split between main awards and MLT's. Also we see the return of the God & Satan MLT's for the first time since mid-2002. Let's see how much things might have changed since then! Anyway, read over the rules - please read over rule #11 in particular, I know over half of you seem to have trouble with that one - and send in your votes via PM! Cheers guys, now get cracking! And break that 2000 nominations milestone this time.

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 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) Be God
39) Be Satan
40) Be Cid's Illegitimate Child
41) Win a Ciddie for the very first time (see rule #13) (past Ciddies winners)
42) Murder someone for winning the Ciddie they wanted
43) Be a modwhore and get torn apart by an angry mob of pictchfork-wielding members for being a damned filthy modwhore because nobody likes a modwhore
44) Spend the rest of their life playing FFXI
45) Get Hit By A Bus
46) Be Driving The Bus
47) Spend hours searching for the lyrics to The Cosby Show Theme Song
48) Be Fighter
49) Be Black Mage
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) after the date of 27th October 2004 before the date of 28th February 2005. Newbies are those who have joined (for the first time) from 28th of February 2005 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 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 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 - Let's keep it fun GO! Nominate!


Nominations will close 12pm next Saturday (4th 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
June 2004: 1693 nominations from 60 members
December 2004: 1973 nominations from 71 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 - 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.