Changeup

Welcome to the final voting for the Community awards portion of this year's PnW Awards! Please remember that there are both popular voting (the threads above) and an alliance representative voting portion taking place simultaneously on our discord. If you'd like to refresh yourself on how the entire process works, we detailed it in our kick-off thread here (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30330-2020-pnw-academy-awards/). Lastly, if you'd like to join our discord and receive updates there as the voting progresses, you can do so here (https://discord.gg/hWrtY2AtC3). Enjoy!

Welcome to the final voting for the Player awards portion of this year's PnW Awards! Please remember that there are both popular voting (the threads above) and an alliance representative voting portion taking place simultaneously on our discord. If you'd like to refresh yourself on how the entire process works, we detailed it in our kick-off thread here (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30330-2020-pnw-academy-awards/). Lastly, if you'd like to join our discord and receive updates there as the voting progresses, you can do so here (https://discord.gg/hWrtY2AtC3). Enjoy!

Welcome to the final voting for the Alliance awards portion of this year's PnW Awards! Please remember that there are both popular voting (the threads above) and an alliance representative voting portion taking place simultaneously on our discord. If you'd like to refresh yourself on how the entire process works, we detailed it in our kick-off thread here (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30330-2020-pnw-academy-awards/). Lastly, if you'd like to join our discord and receive updates there as the voting progresses, you can do so here (https://discord.gg/hWrtY2AtC3). Enjoy!

September: Following a brief war that rocked Orbis but did relatively little damage compared to the previous three global wars, September was another month of peace. The Birthwei Party war also came to a close. The month did bring some important developments, both in alliance affairs and stat-tracking. The two largest spheres in the game, Quack-sphere (composed of T$, TKR, and allies) and Swamp Bloc (TFP, TI, TLE, T&, Fark, and tFed) both gained new members during September. In Quack, Syndicate protectorates Eclipse and Black Knights (both top 20 alliances) signed MDoAP's with The Syndicate. The Knights Radiant upgraded their treaty with The Imperium, a fast-growing Top 30 alliance, to an MDoAP. Over in Swamp, the bloc added United Socialist Nations (a top 40 alliance) on September 19. The predecessor to the CTOwned War Stat website was released to the public in early September. This was designed and made by EvilPiggyFooFoo, who sadly left the game that month, and although not a full website, it was a big upgrade over the limited stats mainly from the Locotus bot that we had until that point. Although September was mostly a peaceful month, it wouldn't be P&W without a little skirmish here or there. Micro Pockyclypse fought Rose in a supposed 110 day war that wound up ending after a short time period, Mythic fought Yarr and was counted by Rose-sphere, and Arrgh had a minor war with The Ampersand. At the end of the day, these were pretty irrelevant wars, especially compared to the surprise conflict coming at the end of next month...

I suspect that's the case.

https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=260446 This nation placed an embargo on a CotL nation because of their nation name, "Jewish Pacifica". "Your nation was embargoed by Richard Windsor of Dominion of Qoglaqstan for the reason listed of: Zionist. Please kill him, I am proud of my religion."

jesus, imagine only participating in the awards to nominate yourself or your alliance two dozen times

KECC isn't from 2020, so technically I don't think it's allowed.

August: War! After 6 months of relative quiet across Orbis, war in all its glory has returned to Orbis. On August 21 just before the daily update, Hedge Money bloc and Swamp Bloc declared war on The Commonwealth and its allies. This was the first major war since the infamous NPO's Last Time, and the general hope across Orbis was that this would be a relatively brief and salt-free war compared to the 9 month slugfest. Thanks to a large numbers advantage, the war was an easy win for Swamp and Hedge. But more importantly, it was free of the toxicity and scandal that had engulfed the previous war. The hope for a brief war also came true, with The Commonwealth and their allies (minus Morningstar) surrendering to the SwampHedge forces after only 10 days. The infamous meme alliance Terminal Jest, helmed by Partisan, also made a return during August. It attacked Pantheon and United Purple Nations in a chaotic fashion, featuring some of the best forum announcements ever made. In yet another war that occurred during August, The Imperium and Chocolate Castle attacked The Wei in a small but fun war dubbed the "Birthwei Party". The Wei had recently gone paperless and thus had no treaties. Finally (I seem to be going in reverse) the month began with Acadia merging into Children of the Light. This merge brought former Soup Kitchen gov member and current CotL leader Leftbehind back into CotL, along with another high gov member JD Keller.

Best Alliance Theme: The Ampersand Best Alliance Page: Arrgh Best Alliance Discord: Grumpy (100% because of Vali) Most Engaged Alliance: Mythic Best Gaming Crew: not sure Best Business (news outlets, banks, graphic design companies, etc): RON Best Art Designer: ANYONE BUT PIKA Best Moderator (can be either forums or discord): Adrienne Best Community Contributor: Adrienne Best New Addition to the Community: Sahina Funniest Player: Sketchy Nicest Player: BrythonLexi Best Bromance: Putmir and Tarroc Best OOC Poster: Jordan's cats Best Forum Topic (please link): later Best Forum Reply (please link): later Best Wall of Text (please link): later Best Leak: later Biggest Controversy: "Secret treaties" Biggest Meme: Manhwa Funniest Event: NPO getting banned

Player of the Year: not sure yetMost Influential Player: PartisanMost Likely to Succeed in 2021: Sven (CotL's new econ head) Best Alliance Leader: LeftbehindWorst Alliance Leader: LeftbehindBest Government Member (not a leader): VexzBest General Member: Avakael, ripMost Missed Player: Kev and PikaBest IC Poster: PartisanPoster You Most Love to Hate: FirwofBest Villain: PartisanLargest E-Peen: CorpsmanBest Fighter: HidudeBest Raider: SahinaMost Controversial Player: AkuryoPlayer You’re Pretty Sure will be Playing in 2050: ChangeupPlayer that is Worst at Responding to DMs: AlexBest Player Avatar: Changeupuwu will inevitably be nominated for this, so I guess I'll get it started.Best Player Signature: idkBest Nation Theme: FraggleBest Nation Page Design: idk

Alliance of the Year: RoseMost Powerful Alliance: The SyndicateMost Improved Alliance: The SyndicateBest Rookie Alliance (must be an alliance formed in 2020): Error 404Most Missed Alliance: Church of Spaceology (SOUP LIVES)Best Alliance for New Players: n/a Most Honorable Alliance: The Knights RadiantMost Immoral Alliance: New Pacific OrderMost Controversial Alliance: GOONSBiggest Warmongers: Children of the LightBiggest Pixel-Huggers: World Task ForceWorst Fighting Alliance: PantheonBest Alliance Growth: Error 404Biggest Alliance Decline: Terminus EstMost Likely to Succeed in 2021: Error 404Most Likely to be Rolled in 2021: The ImmortalsBest Economics Department: GrumpyBest Foreign Affairs Department: n/aBest Internal Affairs Department: RoseBest Milcom Department: CotLBest Government Line-Up: Syndicate (if this was 6 months ago, CotL)Best Bloc (can be a bloc that disbanded this year): HedgeBest Foreign Affairs Move: n/aWorst Foreign Affairs Move: n/aBest Treaty Announcement (please link): too lazy to link rnBest Declaration of War (please link): too lazy to link rnBest Propaganda Post (please link): too lazy to link rnAlliance with Best In-Character Posts: TJestAlliance with Best Propaganda: BKBest Alliance Ad (please link): laterBest Flag (peacetime/standard flags only please): GrumpyBest War Flag: Children of the Light (the changeupuwu one) Best Holiday Flag: TKR answers subject to change

July: (written by Krampus) As time left on the global NAP got lower and lower, tensions began to rise on Orbis. Swamp's conflict with TCM continued, and TKR and allies attacked Arrgh at the start of the month. Without beige, the victorious sides on both conflicts had no issue sitting on their enemies and preventing them from rebuilding. A skirmish broke out between Children of the Light and The Wei. Error 404 had a tense situation with the Syndicate when t$ attacked a micro alliance suspected by t$ to have ex-GotG government members. It later turned out, that these were ex-VE gov members. Over in Quacksphere, Leopold von Habsburg stepped down from his executive position as t$ Chief Operations Officer on July 24. 4 days later, on July 28th, Carthago, House Stark and OWR officially formed Nexus Bloc. With this change came a big shift for Carthago when they downgraded their treaty with tCW from an MDoAP to an ODP. This treaty was later cut, a month later.

This is the nation that received the messages. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=261084

June: June was easily the slowest month this year, with only few relatively major events taking place. On June 8th, The Knights Radiant's longtime leader Adrienne resigned, with high gov member Benfro taking over a king of TKR. A week later, Children of the Light signed Acadia to a protectorate treaty. This turned out to be in advance of Acadia merging into CotL. Towards the end of the month, some controversial game changes took place. Following an incident with slotfilling, the game admin Alex almost completely removed beige, with the only time players could get beige being when their nations are created. This change was later reversed. As we headed towards July, a minor war thanks to counter escalation between Swamp bloc and The Coal Mines kicked off, although this later turned into a consistent guerilla warfare effort by TCM that lasted for several weeks.'

STOP JUST STOP, END THIS MADNESS ALREADY

Nokia's roommate stuff is from when said roommate made a Reddit post titled "My roommate is Nokia. AMA" The stuff about you being dodgy relates to your P&W past that I've witnessed. Nothing irl.

I never interviewed your roommate as you claim I did. Try again. Nope. I don't insult our servicemen and I don't even know where you got that idea. That's impossible. What part of you could be annoying? The OOC lies you regularly spread about me? Impossible.

I'll do it for you. Akuryo then reminisced about transphobic behavior of yours. Not sure what this is all about, still.

I still don't even know what the hell you're talking about.

During discussions with a new player, he mentioned that he received a large amount of recruitment messages, specifically 5 from this Church of Atom nation. Could this be investigated? Messages being sent via a bot multiple times is downright spam.

At the start of May, Politics and War was relatively stagnant. The amount of active nations in the game was rising but still below what it had been a year prior. That changed dramatically when YouTuber Drew Durnil made a video centering on P&W. The video gained nearly 350000 views and roughly 8000 nations were created as a result of it. Although many people immediately went inactive, some were here to stay and gave the game a long lasting and much needed activity boost. Tensions began to rise during May, as expected during the third month of a 6 month long global NAP. Early in the month, escalating counters and disastrous FA almost caused a war between The Federation and Terminus Est/The Wei. A leak on the forums detailed a dispute between Odin (who was represented by The Commonwealth) and Children of the Light regarding Odin's investment into CotL predecessor North Point and CotL's refusal to repay Odin due to several reasons. Spy slot filling (his third time breaking game rules) led to well-known whale Elijah Mikaelson being banned, even though he avoided a ban during a previous scandal in April. In addition to the dispute between Odin/TCW and CotL, the new Hedge bloc (particularly CotL) was very active during May. Hedge bloc gained two new members. Former KETOGG alliance Knights Templar ended their time as a paperless raiding alliance when leader Horsecock was replaced by Dension, and joined Hedge. Fast-growing Children of the Light protectorate Error 404 joined the bloc as well. Those bloc members have remained the same to this day. Children of the Light and The Immortals signed an ODP, linking Hedge and Swamp. Finally, former Enlightenment and CotL leader Kevanovia stepped back and was replaced by Keegoz.

April: April was perhaps the dullest month yet in Orbis, as the game entered the second full month of a 6-month NAP. However, there were still some events that were noteworthy or just downright hilarious. If there's one thing to distinguish April from the rest of the year, it's the amount of alliances created. The month began with the formation of Error 404, which grew rapidly in member count led by Borg and Basebond. Eclipse was created on April 12 by with-pirate Vein at the helm, and also became a strong and competent mass-member alliance. A day later, Hedge bloc members North Point and The Enlightenment merged to create Children of the Light, an immediate top 15 alliance with an experienced government. All 3 of those alliances have grown into major powers in Orbis. Smaller alliances formed in April include The Stratosphere, GATO (a CyberNations crossover) and Crusaders of the Holy Boogaloo. Nova Corp, formed by former CoS and Valinor members, was created and became an excellent smaller alliance, but later merged into ally Advanced Syndicalist Mechanics. April also featured two large cheating events. The first was rather comical and featured a micro named Hizu Alliance, which after a rolling by several allliances, a disastrous forums rampage, and pure micro stupidity, ended up getting banned for being a giant multi ring. Although they claimed to be a multinational organizations and iirc threatened to take legal action, nothing more was heard from there. The second was more serious, and involved the sale of P&W money for rl cash. NPO was implicated in this scandal, although they denied involvement and produced logs that partially exonerate them. Moderation action against the primary perpetrator, Elijah Mikaelson, was not taken despite his lack of cooperation during the investigation due to an immunity agreement.

@Montiform War's over.