It's the Ciddies' 5th Anniversary! And we're celebrating! With more Ciddies!
The Ciddies
5th Anniversary Limited Edition
Happy Thanksgiving, AmeriCanada! Happy [date], rest of the world! It's good to be home.The guy who gets more ladies than a certain new member tells us he gets is back in action! I can hardly believe it's been five years since the Ciddies began, and still getting stronger every year, too... awesome. Things are looking to carry on that way this time around, with a lot of new members looking to make a name for themselves and, of course, an ever-growing pool of previous winners looking to add to their collections. This time there have been a few changes, though, as ever. Here's a run-down on what's changed...
- Most notably, the amount of time you've been at EoFF to qualify for the Veteran or Regular Ciddies has changed. During these Ciddies, it will be done by year - If you registered in 2006, you're a Newbie. 2005? Regular. 2004 and earlier makes a Veteran. Of course, this excludes those in the special groups.
- Out have gone a few famous MLT Ciddies. The bus and duo awards have officially been left out this time around, for the first time since the Ciddies began. This is due to popular demand more than anything, and they may (as with any award) return in future Ciddies.
- The 35/15 split between main awards and MLT's has been changed to 40/10 for these Ciddies.
- Up to eleven of these Ciddies are new awards, including a Most Improved Ciddie which I hope will become a regular award down the years.
- For those who are picky about such things, I've created a small template file which comes with formatting for your nominations, find it attached to this post.
...amongst other changes which I'll let you know about later. Finally, as with last time, if you are interested in presenting a speech about an award, please let me know. Note that you can't pick and choose which speech you present just now, I just want to know how many people are interested. With all that said, let's get down to business.
Nominating has now closed.
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 rule #11) (THE LIST THE LIST THE LIST IT'S HERE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL READ THE LIST AND IF THEY ARE NOT ON THE LIST YOU CAN'T NOMINATE THEM FOR THIS ONE)
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) Sexiest Male
14) Sexiest Female
15) Cutest Male
16) Cutest Female
17) Best Custom Rank (this might help)
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) Biggest Fanboy/girl
31) Most Normal Member
32) Most Underrated Member
33) Most Improved Member
34) Most Masculine Member
35) Most Feminine Member
36) Most Missed Member
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) Succeed
44) Fail
45) Win a Ciddie for the very first time (see rule #14) (past Ciddies winners)
46) Be voting for RSL in every category
47) Not be able to get their fingers out of a finger trap
48) Cry when the whale jumps over the boy in Free Willy
49) Lead a rebellion against the staff
50) Get Together (see rule #15)
Nominating has now closed.
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 who registered between 1999 and 2004 (inclusive) are considered veterans, all other members who registered in 2005 are considered regulars and all other members who registered in 2006 are considered newbies.
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 - People who are NOT currently couples shouldn't be voted as Cutest Couple - this is for people who ARE already couples.
Rule #14 Nominations for Ciddie #45 must NOT be past Ciddies winners.
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'.
*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 other person with access to the Award Guy account is Loony BoB.
In addition to that - You can not 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 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. 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.
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 - Award Guy, 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 (eg. 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
Nominations will close exactly one week after I made this post, or sometime after then when I feel like it (I like to keep it open if I know I can break a records - see below for those 8-)). Or if I'm not there then, it'll be when I next arrive.
Nominating has now closed.
Remember, I am 100% responsible for your satisfaction as a bootcamp participant.
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 (RECORD!)
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 (RECORD!)
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. The official song of the 5th Anniversary Ciddies is Europe - The Final Countdown.
Originally Posted by Jess
