Mission Architect: Player Awards 2009! Nominations

I plan on making it a public thread for voting. It will be ballot style with up to 5 arcs per category. I think I'll ask everyone to post their favorite and a runner up to try and encourage people to play as many of the arcs as they can and not just vote for who they nominated.

Airhead also asked how I was going to handle the judging, I figured I'd post it here instead of just PMing since it's not like it's secret knowledge or anything. If each judge could let me know how many arcs they would be able to play - remember I'm giving up to a 3 week window or so for judging, and you can also start as soon as you want to - as well as which categories they are most interested in, then I will split the categories up between the judges for them to play and judge. Categories with 5 or less arcs won't be judged, they will all go through to voting. Also arcs with 2 or more nominations will also automatically go through to voting. Each category will be judged by at least two people. And as soon as the arcs are judged, I will post the finalists in a thread here for voting.

Judges are self-nominating?


WN

Best Epic Level Arc:
The Most Important Thing #266877 @Aisynia


Haven't been playing much AE... so don't have anything else to throw in.

Didn't have time to go through all of these or replay arcs to remember which ones I was thinking of, so here's the ones I can do off the top of my head. I'll try and round out the rest before the deadline, but I wanted to be sure I got what I could.

Best TO Range Arc (1-15):

164235 Poi, Demonology, and Everything I Learned From Hellions @londerwost

Best Epic Level Arc (40-50):

71933 One Million Eyes @minimalist

Best Comedy Arc:

9882 LOST DOG @6x

Best Serious Arc:

140423 Blight @Witch_Engine

Best use of Mechanics:

245042 The Next War On Drugs @anachrodragon

Best TO Range Arc (1-15)

The Fireside Poet #189439 @MutaJenn

Best DO Range Arc (15-25)

Sibling Rivalry #118690 @Sister Flame

Best SO Level Arc (25-40)

TBD (moved Cheshire Cat's nom to best short arc so he's not competing with himself)

Best Epic Level Arc (40-50)

The Omega Reports: Scavenger #159672 @Luminara

Best Comedy Arc

Females for Hire 110723 @suedenim

Best Serious Arc

Kiss Hello Goodbye #156389 @Kitsune9tails

Best Short Arc (1-3 missions)

Ignition of the Machine #318983 @The Cheshire Cat

Best Multi-Part Arc (2+ arcs, list all for this category)

TBD

Best use of Mechanics

Macguffin Delivery Service #1567 @Lazarus

Since you added a new category since I posted, I would like to add a nomination for

Best use of Mechanics: MacGuffin Delivery Service ARC ID: 1567 Author: @Lazarus

A quick one before nominations close, seconding the nomination of:

Forget the Rose, Send Me the Thorns #8925 @Hydrophidian

For best short arc.

*Edit*

Also seconding:

Escalation #6143 @FemFury

For best SO level arc

OK... Here's the scoop. As I've mentioned before, I'm very time-challenged. I have a list of arcs a mile long I either feel I owe play time to or really need to play just based on what I've read in this forum. I honestly believe I'm unqualified to nominate any arcs for this award simply because my nominees - though all excellent arcs in their own right - almost get the nominations by default.

That said, I don't feel that it's fair to abstain given my level of participation in this forum and, more importantly, given the time others have spent reviewing and helping me improve "The Consequences of War." So, with apologies to all the fine arcs I haven't run that may be equally qualified, here are the nominations I'm willing to make for now, unless I find a time loop in the next 24 hours that lets me run some more:

Best TO Range Arc (1-15)

15+ Minute Tutorial - Knowledge is Power #28470 @Paula

Best DO Range Arc (15-25)

Cntrl + Alt + Reset #137561 @Bubbawheat

Best Comedy Arc

Captain Dynamic, the Great, faces the Great Face #190069 @Aehead

Best Short Arc (1-3 missions)

Celebrity Kidnapping #1388 @PW

Best Multi-Part Arc (2+ arcs, list all for this category)

The Audition Parts 1 - 3 and 4 - 6 #221240/221241 @MrCaptainMan

One last day before nominations are closed. I will be posting the voting thread (or threads) tomorrow around midnight Eastern time.

Question: should I make one post for all voting, or make a new thread for each category. I will be staggering the announcements of the finalists to allow fewer choices to have to play through at a time for voting(so someone wanting to play all the arcs before voting has 5-10 arcs to play instead of 40). I will be posting the categories with 5 or less nominations right away, then more categories as soon as the judges narrow them down.

I think you should stick to one thread -- perhaps editing the original post as new information is determined. Keeping track of multiple threads will be a pain for you and anyone else that wants to watch how things pan out.

Sticking to one thread that you can update sounds good to me.

Quick, before nominations close, I want to toss my hat into the ring for a couple arcs.

To ensure it gets into the finals, I'm going to second the nomination for...

Best Serious Arc:
Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine, Act I #1013 @Turgenev


And then, because I'm shocked this hasn't been added already, I'll nominate:

Best Multi-Part Arc:
Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine, Acts I and II (#1013 and ????)

(I can't add the second arc's number at the moment because this computer doesn't have CoH on it, and the arc's thread seems to have poofed. Am I allowed to nominate it anyway, since I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to find the arc, given the information provided?)

Throwing in a few more under the wire, I hope:

Best Serious Arc: "Karmic Exchange", #47550

Best Use of Mechanics: "The Beating Heart of Astoria", #170547

Best SO-Level: "The Horrible Mr. Caractacus", #10271

Best TO-Level: "Soul Train: Origins", #9590

Yep, just made it in. Submissions for nominations are now closed. Voting is now open in This thread. Only 2 categories have finalists listed at this time, more will be added as they are being judged.