The Mid-Year Ciddies 2006 - Winner Revelations Thread! Tally now in first post. :)

[eestlinc]

Proto over Big D is a huge upset! well not huge but still unexpected. gj.

Ramza Beoulve got no love for best regular, which is sad.

maybe i will win one of these big awards and not be shut out. well technically i did get the first ciddie given away this time.

[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

Best Site Staff
Last winner: Samuraid
Nomination Leader: N/A

The Nominees
Azar
eternalshiva
Flying Mullet
Kyono
Spatvark
Strider
theundeadhero

Who they predicted to win...

Tavrobel: Spatvark Faris: theundeadhero Dignified Pauper: Flying Mullet Raistlin: Kyono Ultima Shadow: Kyono Kyono: theundeadhero Zeldy: Kyono Genius Lynx: Flying Mullet Levian: Kyono Agent Proto: Kyono Psychotic: Kyono Meat Puppet: Kyono Del Murder: Azar

black orb: Azar Rye: theundeadhero Old Manus: Flying Mullet Sephiroth1999AD: eternalshiva Jess: theundeadhero RSL: Azar eestlinc: Azar Rusty: Kyono Mittopotahis: Kyono roto13-ness: Flying Mullet nik0tine: Flying Mullet theundeadhero: Kyono Miriel: Azar

Prediction Party Favourite: Kyono (10/26 - 38%)
Prediction Party Runner Up: Azar / Flying Mullet (5/26 each - 19%)

[Rye]

Proto over Big D is a huge upset! well not huge but still unexpected. gj.

Ramza Beoulve got no love for best regular, which is sad.

maybe i will win one of these big awards and not be shut out. well technically i did get the first ciddie given away this time.

Don't lie, elsie. Award Guy knows the difference between you and Erection Booth in bed. He knows.

[Tavrobel]

AHAHHAHAHAHAHA SUCKS FOR YOU PSY HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Edit] But Kynon's Giga guess portion of his speech made me feel a bit better. Thx man.

Don't worry. 10 - 16 > 16 - 38

[Resha]

I like too many of the Site Staff to have an opinion on this one. Haha, congrats Proto, and best of luck to all the SS.

[Shauna]

Go Azar. I think I voted for him at least. *shrug* Or maybe it was Dan. I can't remember. xD

[Psychotic]

well technically i did get the first ciddie given away this time.

well techically I am annoyed you beat me.

There needs to be a Ciddie for Best Second Account. loony bob penetrated me would destroy repo man and Quina.

A win for Dan, hero or Azar would be good but especially Dan, as I predicted him.

AHAHHAHAHAHAHA SUCKS FOR YOU PSY HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yes, I'm devastated that I lost Best RM/Former Staff. :weep:

[Loony BoB]

While we haven't been as active as we were the six months prior to the last Ciddies, Site Staff has by no means been running low on things to do, and on some occasions we've actually done stuff, too! In all seriousness, I haven't been doing as much myself due to being busy with other things, but I'm proud to say that the team is now working so well that I don't even need to be there pushing at every moment just to get people to be working. The team is so reliable and effective - I love it. The Site Staff is responsible, obviously enough, for keeping the site updated with news and information, and this is what we've been up to in recent times...

News - The past six months have seen some of our news reporters stepping down, but it's not all bad news - top news reporter Azar has continued his excellent work in keeping the us all informed with what's going on. We've also seen the return to action of Strider, who had taken some time off to concentrate on offline affairs, as well as the promotion of my close friend, Kyono. The three of them have combined well and we continue to get updates as they come with regards to developments on all the new Final Fantasy games, including the recent announcement of a set of Final Fantasy XIII games as well as the constant improvements on Final Fantasy XI, not to mention of course the now-released Final Fantasy XII. News reporters are considered by myself to be one of the most thankless tasks there are around this place, so I encourage you all to show your appreciation for their efforts on any occasion.

FanArt Gallery - You'll notice this sitting around the forums index. Samuraid and myself, amongst others, have spent many months looking into getting the old FanArt section on the frontsite upgraded to something new, something better that people can update without the help of someone with FTP access, but at the same time allowing for easy moderation. After working for a long time with various software, we finally decided that we will have to shell out some cash to get something decent. The end result was that money generated from donations and PM-space subscription payments would go towards the FanArt section you see today. A big thanks to everyone who helped out with this.

Vagrant Story - Spatvark has taken it upon himself to put together a completely new gaming section for Vagrant Story, and once again he's done it in incredibly fast time. It isn't live yet, but will be shortly, with about 37 or so PHP pages already uploaded since the last Ciddies! When Spatvark does coding, he really gets going... he's done it all himself, too, as far as I can see. Only Spatty.

FFTA - While this hasn't been moving as fast, the work done by volunteers is well worth mentioning - we've seen work by eternalshiva backed up by non-Site Staff such as TurkSlayer, cl_out, MoonZapdos, ex-Site Staffer Heath, Monster_Hunt and Skyblade. This project has been organised by Spatvark and by next Ciddies we should hopefully have a live section with all their hard work on show. A big thanks to all of those involved!

KH2 - A more recently started project is that of Kingdom Hearts 2, this project being lead by eternalshiva and most of the work has been sorted by Tavrobel, the Best Regular nominee who has already put a lot of time towards improving EoFF, something which the Site Staff and myself will certainly not forget.

FFIV - This is something we really should have finished by now, but admittadly we've been slacking, with the exception of one undead (thankfully!) hero. He's taken it upon himself to code up the final section of EoFF into the new Rinoabella-designed style, and this should be updated before much time has passed.

A big thanks once more to all of those involved with the above projects, and to the wonderful Site Staff who put so much time into EoFF with hardly any reward - you guys (and you too, eternal!) are awesome. You know I can't thank you enough - I try to, but I can't. You're great. Even those of you not yet mentioned have been providing good support, advice and the like, to the rest of us and there's a lot I haven't gone into, but my speech time is running short! The last winner of this Ciddie was Samuraid, who isn't in the running this time - that will give popular choices such as Kyono, Azar and Flying Mullet a good chance, or possibly it might be theundeadhero who will regain his title with Samuraid out of the picture... time to find out!

[Tavrobel]

KH2 - A more recently started project is that of Kingdom Hearts 2, this project being lead by eternalshiva and most of the work has been sorted by Tavrobel, the Best Regular nominee who has already put a lot of time towards improving EoFF, something which the Site Staff and myself will certainly not forget.

Well, that made my day!

[Madonna]

Did I ever mention that Spatvark is insane? He can code and bunge like no other. :o

I don't even have a real favorite for this, despite my predictions, 'cause all the SS really do an exceptional job. Go, guys, go!

[DK]

Goooo Azar and TUH!

[Queen Award, First of Her Name]

Those who didn't make it...
Kyono.......................17
Azar........................15
Spatvark....................13
Strider......................8
eternalshiva.................7
RSL..........................1

Flying Mullet and theundeadhero went right down to the wire, and it was the final vote (regular voting) that seperated one from the other.

[Samuraid]

SPATVARK!

Edit: Oh dear.

[Shauna]

Kyono/Azar/tuh ftw! xD

Aww. Oh well. Go tuh! Go Barret's Penis FM!

[NeoCracker]

My favorites mullet, though I still hate him and his creepy old guy obsestion. Though I couldn't blame any one for voting any of them in, especially Spatty, he gets a lot of work done.