2012’s 2011 TFF Awards: The Abomination of the Nominations

[Polk]

Hi. My name is Polk. I like to vote for things. If you do too, please join me.

First thing’s first, let’s get the rules out of the way. My original plan was to use the older rules as a guideline to work off of, but then I realized that the older rules are pretty good (also I’m ridiculously lazy), so I’ll just copy and paste and add my own amendments (Presidential joke) at the end.

RULES:
This is the system we've been using for a few years, first implemented by Neo Necron. Give it a read so you're not confused by the next round.
(1) For each category, you may nominate 2 members.
You may not nominate the following:
- Yourself
- Non-members (that probably goes without say, but I wanted to make sure)
- Ex-members
- Members who haven't shown any activity for a while*

(2) For each category, up to four members will be picked to move through to the voting round. However, 1 member can only make it through to voting for 3 categories only. This is to prevent one member getting a large amount of awards. Couple categories or club categories won't count towards your three.
In other words, if a member receives enough nominations to get into voting for categories W, X, Y and Z, we will remove them from the voting round for W,X,Y or Z (based on how many nominations they have in each) and should we pick, say, X, another nominee will take that place in voting for that category.
I know that's all confusing, but worry not. It will all be nice and fair and we'll all be very very very happy.

(3) We will then move through to the voting round. For each category, you may vote for 1 of the four nominees. Most votes wins.

*UNO: From now on, I’m referring to this as Pete’s Law. Activity counts for considering people to vote for. If you are inactive for eleven months out of the year, then miraculously make a comeback one month before the awards happen, you’re out of contention.

DOS: So, after a bit of thought, we will be having two gender specific awards: Nicest male/female, and most attractive male/female. I feel like most attractive is kind of obvious. Just because Rocky might be the hunkiest dude on the forums (he is), that doesn’t mean he’s the sexiest lady. For nicest member, I feel it’s beneficial to have two winners because chances are, for newbies, if they see someone with a “Nicest Male/Female” banner in their sig, they’re more willing to approach that member with questions or whatever. Having two people instead of one just seems to make more sense. For these categories, please nominate two men and two women.

TRES: Bogus awards need some sort of explanation to them, when you copy and paste, please PLEASE don’t post the explanations. Otherwise it’ll be a pain in the ass to sort through when I count up votes.

But enough of this palaver, let’s get this show on the road!

Categories:
Best Staff Member
Best New Member
Most Helpful
Most Intelligent
Nicest Male/Female
Funniest Member
Most Attractive Male/Female
Music Guru
Best Writer
Best Artist
Most Interesting Journal
Best Club/Social Group

Most likely to be sexually harassed by che: Could be anyone. Literally everyone. Just whoever is lucky enough to be his target at that time.

Meier Link Memorial Award for Exceptional Spelling: Not a good speller. Probably still a good poster, but the spelling and grammar skills of the poster leave something to be desired.

The "Why do you even post on an FF forum anymore?" award: Someone who has no more interest in FF games, or maybe even games in general. Probably only posts in the Member Lounge.

Member you'd most like to get stuck in a lift elevator with: Oldie but a goodie. A member you'd like to spend a bunch of time with.

Couple most likely to have superbabies: Another oldie that I like. Instead of best duo or best couple, which two people would create the next great superhero? PLEASE NOMINATE TWO COUPLES

The “Member with a heart of Gold” Award: Someone who maybe comes off as a jerk on the forums, but when you really get to know them, is a pretty nice person. Similar to “Nicest Douche” award of old.

The Michael Belmont Memorial Award for excellence in Thread Creation: This requires a bit of backstory. See, Michael Belmont is the greatest poster this forum has ever known. If you don’t believe me, check out his profile and read some of the threads he’s created/posts he’s made. Wonderful, thought provoking threads that made us think about the way we looked at video games and the world around us. Who you nominate/vote for in this award should provide the same well-constructed, thought-provoking threads. Rest in Peace, Michael Belmont. We all miss you (Just in case anyone’s confused, you should vote for someone you think makes really good threads.)

Pabst’s Blue Ribbon Award: Who’s the biggest lush on TFF? Someone you think you’d like to party with, only to quickly realize that you could never keep up with them if you were to drink together.

Faction most likely to take over the world: You know someone’s planning it. Whether they’re doing it in their club discussions that you can’t read, the forum they post in, or in private chats, one social group/club is plotting to do the same thing they do every day: take over TFF, then the world! (Conspiracy theories in this award)

Most Narcissistic: They’re the coolest kid in town, and they know it! Sure, maybe they should stop talking about it all the time, but still! Okay, maybe it gets a bit annoying after a while… okay, REALLY annoying.

Biggest FF fan: QUIT POSTING ABOUT CLOUD. JESUS CHRIST WE GET IT. NO I DON'T WANT TO READ YOUR GOD DAMN FANFIC.

Most Knowledgeable (FF): Do I really need to explain? Who knows more about final fantasy then this person? END OF STORY.

OKAY! I think we’re done here!

Nominations close on February 6th. Have fun!