2010 Player's Choice MA Awards: Results

This hasn't been the best year for the Mission Architect and its authors. From monkey farms, to few Dev Choices, to few plays. Especially the few plays part - last year's Player's Choice voting brought 250 posts and over 6,000 views with a voting period of 3-4 weeks. This year's had twice as much time, and only 1/5th as much interest. I hope that next year brings renewed interest in the Mission Architect and hopefully I will be back next year with a bigger turnout for the 2011 Player's Choice Awards. But regardless, there have still been great authors publishing great arcs. And all of the nominees for this year's Player's Choice are no different. These are definitely the best arcs of the year, and if you didn't get the chance to play some of them, be sure to give them a shot when you can. It will absolutely be worth it. Without further ado, here are the winners for this year's Player's Choice Awards!


Best Arc - Heroic or Vigilante

In Sixth place, with 1 second place vote for a total of 1 point: Task Force Mutternacht #349522 by @twelfth

In Fifth place, with 3 second place votes for a total of 3 points: In Pursuit of Liberty #344916 by @Gypsy Rose aka ArrowRose

In Fourth place, with 2 first place votes for a total of 4 points: Legacy of a Rogue #459586 by @Night-Girl aka Liquid

In Third place, with 2 first place votes and 3 second place votes for a total of 7 points: Dhahabu Kingdom and the Indelible Curse of Hate #367872 by @Zamuel

The Runner-up, with 4 first place votes and 4 second place votes for a total of 12 points: Made to Wave the Flag #384776 by @LaserJesus

And the winner with a whopping 7 first place votes and 6 second place votes for a total of 20 points: The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society #344596 by @Wrong Number

Congratulations!



Best Arc - Villainous or Rogue

In Fifth place, with 1 second place vote for a total of 1 point: The End of Saturday Morning #391934 by @Zamuel

In Fourth place, with 1 first place vote and 3 second place votes for a total of 5 points: Unfair Trade #373846 by @Lazarus

In Third place, with 2 first place votes and 2 second place votes for a total of 6 points: The Do-It-Yourself Doom Army Project #410418 by @Twoflower

The Runner-up, with 3 first place votes and 2 second place votes for a total of 8 points: Until the End of the World #431270 by @Archdemon aka Eva Destruction

And the winner with 5 first place votes and 5 second place votes for a total of 15 points: Fear and Loathing on Striga Isle #350522 by @FredrikSvanberg

Congratulations!



Best Arc - Comedy

Tied for Fifth place, with 1 first place vote for a total of 2 points: Captain Skylark Shadowfancy and the Tomorrownauts of Today! #337333 by @The Cheshire Cat and
Outbroken #379017 by @Aehaed

In Fourth place, with 3 second place votes for a total of 3 points: Too Clever by Half #378944 by @Samuraiko aka Dark Respite

In Third place, with 1 first place vote and 2 second place votes for a total of 4 points: The Ghastly Secret Of Dreams #386861 by @Clave Dark 5

The Runner-up, with 2 first place votes and 4 second place votes for a total of 8 points: The Ms. Manners Task Force #416951 by @Wrong Number

And the Winner, with 4 first place votes and 1 second place vote for a total of 9 points, and our closest victory this year: Drakule vs. The Werewolf Bikers From Hell #340316 by @LaserJesus

Congratulations!



Best Short Arc: 1 - 3 missions

In Fifth place, with no votes, though it is still a great arc, it was just up against some tough competition: By Any Other Name #398110 @Fetch

In Fourth place, with 1 first place vote for a total of 2 points: "Hack" #403410 by @Cai

In Third place, with 3 second place votes for a total of 3 points:Storming Citadel #379488 by @MrCaptainMan

The almost perpetual Runner-up, with 3 first place votes and a huge 13 second place votes for a total of 19 points: Murders in the RWZ Morgue #452144 by @FredrikSvanberg

And the clear Winner, with 12 first place votes and 2 second place votes for a total of 26 points, which is the most points of any arc in any category this year: Talos Vice #338380 by @PW aka PoliceWoman

Congratulations!



Best Lowbie Arc: designed for levels 20 or lower

In Fifth place, with no votes, though it is a good arc, just up against some tough competition:Past Echoes of Tomorrow #379399 by @Equation aka Arbiter Fabulous

In Fourth place, with 2 second place votes for a total of 2 points: Damage Limitation #447945 by @AP aka Arctic Princess

In Third place, with 1 first place vote and 5 second place votes for a total of 7 points: Holding Down the Fort #379065 by @LaserJesus

The Runner-up, with 3 first place votes and 4 second place votes for a total of 10 points: Talos Vice #338380 by @PW aka PoliceWoman

And the Winner, with 8 first place votes and 2 second place votes for a total of 18 points: A Hero in Need...is a Friend Indeed! #375018 by @Wrong Number

Congratulations!



Best Original Group Design

In Fifth place, with no votes, though it's a great arc with great characters, just up against some tough competition: The Crush from The Vengeful Heart #454861 by @Jinkobi

In Fourth place, with 5 second place votes for a total of 5 points: The New Outcasts from Evolve or Die #411446 by @FredrikSvanberg

In Third place, with 1 first place vote and 4 second place votes for a total of 6 points: Changua Jinazimi from Dhahabu Kingdom and the Unfathomable Nightmare of Sand #453511 by @Zamuel

The Runner-up, with 3 first place votes and 1 second place vote for a total of 7 points: The custom 5th Column from The Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society #344596 by @Wrong Number

And the Winner, with 8 first place votes and 3 second place votes for a total of 19 points: The Wickerwork from Against the Wickerwork Khan #346904 by @Clave Dark 5

Congratulations one and all!

And just as a reminder, I thought I'd take a quick look back at last year's Player's Choice Award winners.

Best Lowbie arcs (TO/DO range)
The Marconeville Horror #178278 @Footloose - Still sitting at 41 plays and 4 stars. Check it out sometime!
The Invasion of the Bikini-Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space! #61013 @Aliana Blue

Best Higher range arc (SO+)
Teen Phalanx Forever! #67335 @PW - shot down from 5 stars just shy of Hall of Fame status. But still an author with a Dev Choice.
One Million Eyes #71933 @minimalist - another great arc at 4 stars, and another author who won themselves a Dev Choice. And personally, I preferred this arc over their Dev Choice arc.

Best Short arc
Celebrity Kidnapping #1388 @PW - once again, the winner of the short arc category.

Best Multi-arc
The Consequences of War #227331, and The Casualties of War #241496 @Dalghryn - Another couple arcs knocked down from 5 stars, and both still worth a look.

Best Serious arc
Tales of Croatoa: A Rose By Any Other Name #178774 @Silvers1 - One of the few arcs from the Player's Choice who also became a Dev Choice, this one through the first Architect Awards which sadly weren't held again this year.

Best Comedy arc
In Poor Taste #259920 @Wrong Number - a multiple Player's Choice award-winner that still has not been recognized by the devs.

Best use of Mechanics
The Next War on Drugs #245042 @anachrodragon - And another arc that is still pretty obscure with only 57 plays and 4 stars. Check it out, it's a great one.

Congrats to all the winners!

Thanks to Bubba for running this. I really enjoyed playing all the entries.
Great job by all.

Thanks to Bubbawheat for running this and to everyone who voted. I was honored to have my arc be nominated and voted for, and I apologize for not voting myself-- I've been really busy and just didn't have time to run MA arcs after the awards were announced.

Edit: and yes, congrats to all the winners!

Whoo! Drakule finally pulls out a win!

And I can't believe I'm the only one that voted for Task Force Mutternacht.

Congratulations to the winners. There were indeed some great arcs nominated.

Congratulations to all of the winners. Was sick for a while so I didn't get to finish playing everything so I could vote myself.

Congrats to everyone who won and a big thank you to those who voted for my arcs. The biggest thank you goes to Bubbawheat of course for taking the time to do all the work and provide the prizes.

Over these past few weeks I've been busy on a new arc and it's turned into a real headache - things I wanted couldn't be done, second-guessing so many choices I made and retooling (I still have literally pages of notes to go through, argh), etc. etc. etc. And then when it would get to me and I just HAD to take a break and actually PLAY THE GAME, I was just soloing some Winter Event stuff. Combine all that with the fact I usually only get to play maybe an hour a day and... I didn't ever get around to playing these voting. I feel like I was taking advantage of this contest and yet not actually participating in it, and it's a cheesy feeling.

Well, enough of that. For the foreseeable future, when I just have to get away from the endless salt mine of the new arc, I'm going to take my toon (whom I'm now pretty good at soloing with, heh), and I'm going to play me some arcs, these and others.

I'm glad to see you posted the winners from last year as well, I was wondering if that list was still around. I think those and this year's should be posted in a sticky (assuming these all aren't already on someone else's list of good arcs) so that as time goes by and we face another person posting something about how there's never anything good to play in AE, we can point them in that direction.

Again, thank you to everyone.

Grats to all the winners... I'm happy I was even nominated!

With luck, 2011's Players Choice will see more input and whatnot - we can but hope!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees. I'm really floored to have two of my arcs win categories with such excellent competition. Thanks to everyone that played my arcs and especially all of you who nominated/voted for my arcs. Also, as always, thanks to Bubba for running this event and sticking with it.

If you have not played all of the nominated arcs, do yourself a favor and do it. You won't be disappointed!


WN

Thanks for running this fun event, Bubbawheat. Congrats to the winners, and thanks also to everyone who participated and voted!

Congratulations, and woot, I won something! I hadn't kept track of the votes. Awesome. Might just start working on a new arc now.

Congrats to all the winners! And to all the nominees - win or no, they were all very good arcs!

Thanks for pulling this together each year, Bubba! Congrats to the winners and nominees, very well deserved all around

Somewhat of a bonus prize for Talos Vice.

If any of the other winners are interested, I would be happy to do something similar for their arcs. Just move the discussion over to my other thread: On Your M-Arc to request one.

Gratz to the winners, and Gratz to the sub-winners!

And thanks to the folks who played and commented on my arc, the lowest-ranking arc of any of the categories (woot 6th place, it's like elementary school Phys Ed all over again)! More than your votes, I appreciate your time.

Congratulations to the winners!

I'm a little disappointed in Tomorrownauts' poor showing, though to be fair I don't personally consider it a "comedy", so maybe it would have done better in another category.

Oh well, I suppose I should write a new arc to be eligible for next year :P

Congrats to all the winners.

I have made notes of plenty of arcs to play over the coming weeks/months

Thanks for your efforts

Congratulations everyone! Deserving wins, all. And thanks to all who voted for Storming Citadel, too.

Happy MArcing!

Eco

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Congratulations everyone! Excellent additions to what is hopefully a grand tradition. Great job, as always, Bubbawheat!

Thanks for running this Bubbawheat! I wish I could have contributed, but some staffing issues over the festive season plus endless travel meant I couldn't get through even one set of contenders.

I echo Cheshire that my story was in the wrong category, so would definitely not meet expectations. Better to judge an arc by its arc description. But on the other hand it did get me at least 3 plays, and some nice comments about its lowbie tale too in this forum.

It's that last little bit that has me inclined to write another story as time permits. Thanks ArrowRose, Coulomb, LaserJesus and anyone else whose forum comments I missed

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Why on earth does this thread not have a sticky on it???

Forgot to post this here as well when I finished it... and also doesn't hurt to bring this back to the front page for a bit. As I called it a few posts up, call this a bonus prize for the winning arcs.

Trailer for Golden Age Secret of the Paragon Society.

and as I didn't really spell out what it was above.

Trailer for Talos Vice.

I think I would like to continue these, for the other winners, let me know if it's ok to do one for your arc. It may take a while, but I'll hopefully get them all done.