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  1. 1. Best Alliance Theme

    • Arrgh
      63
    • Chocolate Castle
      69
    • Error 404
      50
    • The Lost Empire
      28
    • The Syndicate
      60
  2. 2. Best Alliance Page

    • Chocolate Castle (https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=7346)
      38
    • Error 404 (https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=7413)
      43
    • Rose (https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=790)
      73
    • Seven Kingdoms (https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=615)
      17
    • The Knights Radiant (https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=1584)
      74
    • The Lost Empire (https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=6126)
      25
  3. 3. Best Alliance Discord

    • Carthago
      29
    • Chocolate Castle
      33
    • Church of Atom
      17
    • Order of the White Rose
      17
    • Rose
      93
    • The Knights Radiant
      46
    • The Syndicate
      35
  4. 4. Most Engaged Alliance

    • Children of the Light
      18
    • Error 404
      38
    • Rose
      76
    • The Knights Radiant
      68
    • The Syndicate
      70
  5. 5. Best Treaty Announcement

    • Nexus (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/29578-episode-iv-a-new-hope/)
      34
    • Rose + HM + Swamp secret treaties (link secret)
      79
    • Swamp (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/28432-treaty-in-a-kingdom-far-far-away/)
      70
    • The Imperium and Chocolate Castle (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/29605-treaty-the-emperor-and-his-chocolate/)
      32
    • The Knights Radiant and The Syndicate (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/27653-mirror-accords/)
      55
  6. 6. Best Declaration of War

    • Arrgh's Recognition of Hostilities with Ampersand (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/29947-roh-you-dont-think-im-petty-enough/)
      38
    • Hedge Money DoW vs. The Commonwealth (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/29717-hedge-money-announcement/)
      79
    • Terminal Jest on United Purple Nations (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/29718-pull-up-dow-terminal-jest/)
      51
    • The Imperium and Chocolate Castle on The Wei (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/29769-dow-happy-birthwei/)
      45
    • Wherever Swamp’s DoW on Arrgh was (not linking)
      57
  7. 7. Best Propaganda Post

    • A (Not So) Brief Note on the Narrative (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30175-a-not-so-brief-note-on-the-narrative/)
      37
    • Alex's post on the NPO Scandal (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/27996-252020-major-announcement-regarding-enforcement-of-game-rules/)
      113
    • An end to the war: A $yndicate broadcast (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30372-an-end-to-the-war-a-yndicate-broadcast/)
      44
    • One of Phoenyx's many threads (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30233-the-global-war-the-factions-within-it-and-possible-steps-moving-forward/)
      46
    • Where am I? Partisan musings (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30278-where-am-i-partisan-musings/)
      30
  8. 8. Best Gaming Crew

    • Children of the Light (Among Us)
      45
    • Chocolate Castle
      21
    • Rose
      73
    • The Knights Radiant
      71
    • The Syndicate (#paradoxia)
      60
  9. 9. Business of the Year

    • Radiant Designs
      33
    • Royal Orbis News
      135
    • Swingset
      28
    • Thalmor Radio
      59
    • The Foundation Bank
      15
  10. 10. Best Art Designer

    • Ameyuri
      61
    • Elder Rachael
      42
    • Mad Max
      45
    • MinesomeMC
      55
    • Pika
      67
  11. 11. Best Moderator

    • Adrienne
      67
    • Chief Wiggum
      10
    • Dr Rush
      42
    • Lossi
      21
    • Ripper
      23
    • None, they all suck.
      107
  12. 12. Best Community Contributor

    • Adrienne
      66
    • Borg
      54
    • Carthago for CTOwned
      88
    • Phoenyx
      27
    • Thalmor
      35
  13. 13. Best New Addition to the Community

    • Sahina (Jim)
      25
    • Borg
      113
    • BrythonLexi
      24
    • DuccZucc
      25
    • Hari
      8
    • MrPants
      21
    • Yang
      54
  14. 14. Funniest Player

    • Eumirbago
      39
    • Hodor
      28
    • Kevanovia
      33
    • LordStrum
      42
    • Shifty
      74
    • Yang
      54
  15. 15. Nicest Player

    • Adrienne
      93
    • Anna
      17
    • Daveth
      46
    • HannaH
      43
    • Yui/Purplemoon
      71
  16. 16. Best Bromance

    • Alex & his credit stash
      114
    • Arrgh & The Knights Radiant
      42
    • Daveth & Krampus
      29
    • Tarroc & Putmir Vladin
      41
    • Vein & Dryad
      44
  17. 17. Best OOC Poster

    • Cooper
      53
    • Eumirbago
      30
    • Havgle
      27
    • Hodor
      37
    • Jordan's cats
      66
    • MinesomeMC
      57
  18. 18. Best Forums Topic

    • Alex's Announcement on the NPO Cheating Scandal (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/27996-252020-major-announcement-regarding-enforcement-of-game-rules/)
      109
    • An Appeal to Phoenyx: Peace Negotiations/Propaganda (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30436-an-appeal-to-phoenyx-peace-negotiationspropaganda/)
      32
    • Mysterious HM leader finally revealed? (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30389-mysterious-hm-leader-finally-revealed/)
      28
    • t$ milcom leaks (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30135-t-milcom-leaks/)
      40
    • We are here for the whales - t$ DoW (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30090-we-are-here-for-the-whales-t-dow/)
      61
  19. 19. Best Forums Reply

    • Fire Vero (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30437-psst-more-t-leaks/&tab=comments#comment-481023)
      73
    • Goodnight (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/29129-are-we-willing-to-forgive/&do=findComment&comment=464358)
      24
    • Jaden's request to become a UU diplomat (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30451-treaty-the-boreal-union-united-ummah-non-aggression-pact/page/2/&tab=comments#comment-481392)
      53
    • NO (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30344-where-to-now-immortals-and-tfp/&do=findComment&comment=479631)
      66
    • Two red buttons (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30098-propaganda-thread/&do=findComment&comment=474833)
      54
  20. 20. Best Wall of Text

    • A (Not So) Brief Note on the Narrative (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30175-a-not-so-brief-note-on-the-narrative/)
      56
    • Dwight K Schrute's departure from Schrute Farms (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30429-asm-declaration-of-support-for-schrute-farms/)
      54
    • Everything posted, ever
      41
    • No Wall of Text is the best
      87
    • What did the mysterious HM leader mean? (https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/30213-what-did-mysterious-hm-leader-mean/)
      32
  21. 21. Best Leak

    • Anything that comes out of Sphinx's mouth
      132
    • Elijah and his burritos
      32
    • Error 404 chat logs
      32
    • Sphinx/Boyce logs that started GW16
      47
    • The infamous Ronny leak
      27
  22. 22. Biggest Controversy

    • Children of the Light withholding a former member (Odin)'s safekeeping deposits (Odin)
      24
    • Dwight Schrute attempting to sell Schrute Farms, then taking the bank and running
      48
    • NPO Cheating Scandal
      121
    • Rose, Hedge Money, and Swamp all having paperless treaties
      52
    • The existence of Orbis
      25
  23. 23. Biggest Meme

    • 2020
      69
    • NPO mass deleting
      80
    • Phoenyx's talks about GW16
      30
    • Swamp kicking out half of their bloc
      51
    • The secret Hedge Money leader
      40
  24. 24. Funniest Event

    • Buorhann thinking that he had secret logs from Kayser, but then his DM history with Kayser turned out to be blank
      28
    • Elijah and his burritos
      30
    • IQ all drinking the kool-aid and mass deleting after NPO leadership got banned
      84
    • Rose defending Schrute Farms from 4 nations through a secret treaty and then getting raided for a month afterwards for their own stupidity
      58
    • When Blackbird deleted 3.2b in infra to "counter" Dryad but only hit Vein
      70

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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!

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Suggestion: when there are links to a post put them in the first post so you can easily open them, this is how I do the TKR awards

 

To the other 3 people who voted Hodor for funniest player: did you voted him too but think you're funnier than him?

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Best art designer nominations count:

Mars: 5

Minesome: 2

Ame: 2

Basebond: 1

Marvel: 1

Rachael: 1

Malleator: 1

Marvel: 1

Maia: 1

Scratchy: 1

Pika: 1 (two if you count the 'anyone but pika' vote)

Mad Max: 0

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24 minutes ago, Marzipan said:

if you go to nominations, you will see ive been nominated for best art designer like 4-5 times or whatever, yet im not on the list.

you added people with zero nominations just because youre a spiteful little man

if your dumb ass cant keep for being biased let someone else handle these things.

Lets break this down @Marzipan.

"People with zero nominations" - Alliances also were (and always have been) allowed to nominate people, this was explained in the first post. The public nominations are not the only way to get nominated, As you can see here, on the first post Adri explained how it works; but I will explain again.

On 12/4/2020 at 6:38 PM, Adrienne said:

All players, as well as alliance representatives, will be invited to participate in the nominations. Alliance representatives are not allowed to nominate their own alliance.

 

"Yet im not on the list." - It was after the nominations that shortlisting happened, to cut it down to 5 people per award (more if there was a tie at the bottom end). Adri also explained this early on within the first post. 

On 12/4/2020 at 6:38 PM, Adrienne said:

Round 2: Shortlisting
Round 2 will take place with the alliance representatives and last from January 6-9, 2021. The goal of this round is to shortlist each category to 5. Alliance representatives will be allowed 3 votes per category and are not allowed to vote for their own alliance.

 

"being biased" - These awards are not biased. If you took the time out of your day to read up on them, and how they are done this would be clear.

Please read this post for more information and hopefully this has cleared things up.

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why even have nominations threads if they dont count? i got 5 nominations, 3 more than the runner up, yet a person with zero nominations get on the list and i dont.

can we check the alliance representative 'round 2' youre talking about? see who nominated whom, and how can a situation like this can even happen?

for real, your personal opinion, does this seem right to you?

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6 minutes ago, Marzipan said:

why even have nominations threads if they dont count? i got 5 nominations, 3 more than the runner up, yet a person with zero nominations get on the list and i dont.

can we check the alliance representative 'round 2' youre talking about? see who nominated whom, and how can a situation like this can even happen?

for real, your personal opinion, does this seem right to you?

I suggest you read putmir's reply. 

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1 minute ago, Krampus said:

I suggest you read putmir's reply. 

i have, and i doubt the results. if the answer is 'we arbitrarily chose nominations despite what happens in the nominations threads' then i understand, thats fine.

if youre saying theres an actual method  to this that uses numbers, id be very grateful if someone would enlighten me on how the count went and if there is any way to check it. 

simple mathematics says max for instance would have to get at least 6 alliance nominations, and everyone else at least 4 for me not to make the final cut. if thats what happened thats fine, but pointing me to that post does not answer my questions.

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1 minute ago, Marzipan said:

i have, and i doubt the results. if the answer is 'we arbitrarily chose nominations despite what happens in the nominations threads' then i understand, thats fine.

if youre saying theres an actual method  to this that uses numbers, id be very grateful if someone would enlighten me on how the count went and if there is any way to check it. 

simple mathematics says max for instance would have to get at least 6 alliance nominations, and everyone else at least 4 for me not to make the final cut. if thats what happened thats fine, but pointing me to that post does not answer my questions.

That is what happened. We will share our entire spreadsheet at the end of this, I can promise you that.

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Just now, Adrienne said:

That is what happened. We will share our entire spreadsheet at the end of this, I can promise you that.

thats fine, ill take your word for it no problem.

it is what it is, i apologize for my comments, hopefully my confusion is understandable given the numbers and the lead i had compared to others.

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11 minutes ago, Marzipan said:

thats fine, ill take your word for it no problem.

it is what it is, i apologize for my comments, hopefully my confusion is understandable given the numbers and the lead i had compared to others.

I understand and I don't want you to have to take my word for it. It's why we aim to be as transparent as possible by showing you the entire process and, when things go wrong as they did earlier today with the count, explaining what happened/fixing it. I do appreciate the sentiment though and for checking in when you thought there was an issue because sometimes there is.

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There’s nothing to *fix*. They’ve stated the entire voting process already on multiple occasions, and just because you were nominated doesn’t mean you made it to the final shortlist. The voting in between was done in private with just one representative per alliance for the top 50 alliances and 10 top protectorates (correct me if I’m wrong). Your name didn’t get on the list because other nominations were more popular in the private voting. You’ll see the results from that when these awards are over (I believe) so just shake it off, don’t get salty, and move on with your life :)

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44 minutes ago, Xaria said:

So when are you fixing this lul, I am nowhere on the list even tho I was voted/

 

39 minutes ago, PurpleElefante said:

There’s nothing to *fix*. They’ve stated the entire voting process already on multiple occasions, and just because you were nominated doesn’t mean you made it to the final shortlist. The voting in between was done in private with just one representative per alliance for the top 50 alliances and 10 top protectorates (correct me if I’m wrong). Your name didn’t get on the list because other nominations were more popular in the private voting. You’ll see the results from that when these awards are over (I believe) so just shake it off, don’t get salty, and move on with your life :)

For clarification, getting nominated by either a person or an alliance representative 100% means you get in the shortlist. However, being nominated doesn't mean you will get past the shortlist. That is the case here, Xaria was nominated, but did not receive enough votes in the shortlist, and thus got eliminated.  

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4 hours ago, PurpleElefante said:

There’s nothing to *fix*. They’ve stated the entire voting process already on multiple occasions, and just because you were nominated doesn’t mean you made it to the final shortlist. The voting in between was done in private with just one representative per alliance for the top 50 alliances and 10 top protectorates (correct me if I’m wrong). Your name didn’t get on the list because other nominations were more popular in the private voting. You’ll see the results from that when these awards are over (I believe) so just shake it off, don’t get salty, and move on with your life :)

I feel like Alliances hold a lot of power over players, I thought every category was independent like the community category is for the players to decide. I don’t know how this process of voting works but idk where you got the information that I might be salty, a question was asked and ranted on this situation for entertainment.

If anybody got a forum post on how this thing works please send it to me so I can understand it and rant about it to piss some people off :P.

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Like Zaria said, but I want to express my dislike at alliances (meaning, one person in said alliance's government) get to have more say in the nominations than the individuals that make up Orbis. Not only that, technically these people have 2 votes. 

 

Not like I care particularly, awards smords. I just think that it's somewhat unfair to allow the more prominent people in Orbis who no doubt were on the shortlist as well to have an extra vote and say in deciding who, in all of Orbis, get's these awards. Unless I misunderstand, in that case punish me.

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From my experience running it last year, it's generally a non-issue as, for the most part, alliance votes and popular votes align. The reason it was set up this way was in an attempt to prevent coordinated voting because every alliance vote, regardless of the size of the alliance, has equal weight and are not allowed to vote for their own alliances. Furthermore, while we cannot enforce this for obvious reasons, alliance representatives are heavily encouraged to consult with their govs and/or members when nominating/voting, depending on how they decide to organize that. The representatives are also not required to be alliance leaders and, in many, if not the majority of, cases are not.

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Just now, Adrienne said:

From my experience running it last year, it's generally a non-issue as, for the most part, alliance votes and popular votes align. The reason it was set up this way was in an attempt to prevent coordinated voting because every alliance vote, regardless of the size of the alliance, has equal weight and are not allowed to vote for their own alliances. Furthermore, while we cannot enforce this for obvious reasons, alliance representatives are heavily encouraged to consult with their govs and/or members when nominating/voting, depending on how they decide to organize that.

I understand that...

but if you look at the votes, doesn't something seem off? In multiple categories there are massive landslide victories, as if no one wanted the other choices. And there is a lot of grumbling about how nominations submitted by players multiple times didn't make the cut. 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this isn't like the an election, I don't think anyone cares enough to pursue it. And for all I know....well I don't know anything lmao. Love the awards nonetheless.

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There is some grumbling, sure, but I'm not sure I would call it a lot. There is always some grumbling though, not to dismiss anyone's concerns. There is no way to create a perfect system that pleases everyone. We strove to create a system we believed gave the best chance to all alliances regardless of size/prevent large alliances from being able to coordinate and sweep the awards, and to avoid overwhelming the OWF with exceptionally long polls. We recognize these concerns and tried to consider as many while tweaking the system this year based on what we learned last year. If there are lessons to be learned from this year's awards, we'll remember them for next year's awards. 

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1 hour ago, Aqua-Corpsman said:

Like Zaria said, but I want to express my dislike at alliances (meaning, one person in said alliance's government) get to have more say in the nominations than the individuals that make up Orbis. Not only that, technically these people have 2 votes. 

If you want to be relevant, be the representative for your alliance. There are a ton of representatives.

Also, let's be honest...some of the categories have right answers. They're landslides for a reason. 

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13 minutes ago, zigbigadorlou said:

If you want to be relevant, be the representative for your alliance. There are a ton of representatives.

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Also, let's be honest...some of the categories have right answers. They're landslides for a reason. 

True, but to you it doesn't seem like the "elite" have a differing opinion than the masses?

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It can always go to a different way even if it is called “perfect”, and when we are calling it perfect... it will only seem unfair or something else.

You see... life is equal and nothing can be perfect

got many paths in a single situation

People will always try to find a way to benifit themselves or others... so be it? Let the people choose and others will know who they are voting for.

criticism will probably hit the alliance that gets in on the community category or players category because it is for the players NOT alliances and I believe competition can be sometimes fun, alliances shouldn’t have a say in the community or players category at the end... the players choose themselves, coordinated or not... this community and the players know what to say once (one) behind the scenes is throwing cash for votes.

or simply add rules to prevent bribes for example

-.Hey! Idiot! “Vote me for some moni” is not gonna get ya to be nominated next year... or any future upcoming years.

you got many choices and I believe one day us as a community will help with finding the correct way because staff aren’t some superior gods.. they are people helping the community to make it equal and playable.

Adrienne you’re doing great but not perfect and there is no need for perfection because you can’t find the perfect way for everybody... so why not make it have sense instead?

 I hope this message helps.

Note: I am not saying Alliances are not part of the community... they are! But most of the Awards are more leaned into players in that category, the people of the community picks and alliances having a say at the end feels like the attention now is being brought to the “important figures” of the community.

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I see a very simple compromise here: optionally merge some of the current alliance categories into the community categories, then have the chosen alliance representatives shortlist the alliance categories only while players vote on both the player and community categories without further shortlisting. Then we'd be getting the FA-vetted alliance awards, which is reasonable, while the other two categories also become reasonable since one or a few limited gov members who'd otherwise be deciding their representative vote typically don't have a large awareness beyond their own member base/ally member base.

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