Popular Post Scott1716 Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 (edited) Hello, friends! It’s that time of year again - we’re getting ready for the 2021 PnW Academy Awards! For those of you who were here last year, the process will be similar but we’ve made some important changes, the most significant being in the final voting process. If you weren’t here last year, need a refresher, or want to see the changes made, details on how this will work are in the spoiler box below. Spoiler The PnW Academy Awards works by combining traditional player voting with alliance representative voting to equalize the voting field between alliances of all sizes. There are three rounds to this process: Round 1: Nominations Nominations this year will take place from January 10-15, 2022. 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. Alex/Sheepy may not be nominated for alliance/player categories. Round 2: Shortlisting Round 2 will take place with the alliance representatives and last from January 17-22, 2022. The goal of this round is to shortlist each category to 10. Alliance representatives will be allowed 3 votes per category and are not allowed to vote for their own alliance. Round 3: Final Voting Final voting will take place from January 24-29, 2022 with both the players and the alliance representatives using the shortlist of 10 nominees/categories. Alliance representatives will be allowed 1 vote per category and are not allowed to vote for their own alliance. If alliance representative voting and player voting for a category differ, both results will be displayed. All results from the entire process will be shared publicly for transparency. The Awards Ceremony will take place on January 31, 2022 and the winners will be posted on the OWF shortly thereafter (We will share more details regarding this later). Alliance Voting Component Rules Spoiler The 60 alliances with the highest scores that are not an offshore, training alliance, or sister alliance will qualify for a vote. If a war is still occurring when qualifying alliances are selected, the top 60 qualifying alliances from both before the war and during it will be included for the sake of fairness, which means more than 60 alliances may initially qualify to vote. Alliances outside the top 60 highest scores and want to participate should DM Scott1716#4927 on discord for more information. Alliances cannot nominate nor vote for themselves. Alliance representatives do not have to be the leader of an alliance but they do have to belong to the alliance they represent. They may be any member of the alliance that the alliance deems an adequate representative, as long as that member is not on the organizing committee for the awards. Alliance representatives are encouraged to consult with the remainder of their alliance's gov (and/or membership) when nominating and/or voting. Alliance representatives will receive their own channel on the Awards discord, in which a passcode will be shared. This passcode serves as a safeguard against the document leaking and will need to be included on their ballot in order for their nominations/votes to count. 2021 PnW Academy Awards Organizing Committee Spoiler Adrienne - The Knights Radiant Putmir Vladin - Terminus Est Justinian Magnus - Empire of the Romans Scott - 99942 Apophis Vice - VooDoo In addition to the changes to the process, we have also significantly reduced the number of categories for this year from 78 to 36. Worry not though! We are also inviting you all to help participate in this year’s awards process by nominating and deciding on four categories. The categories we currently have are as follows: Alliance categories Spoiler Alliance of the Year Best Alliance Flag Best Alliance for New Players Best FA Move Best FA Team Best Fighting Alliance Best Growth Best Holiday Flag Best Propaganda Best Rookie Alliance Most Honorable Alliance Most Improved Alliance Most Likely to be Rolled in 2022 Most Missed Alliance Worst FA Move Worst Fighting Alliance Player categories Spoiler Best Alliance Leader Best In-Character Poster Best Nation Page Best New Addition to the Community Best Villain Most Controversial Player Most Influential Player Most Missed Player Nicest Player Worst Alliance Leader Community categories Spoiler Best Ad Best Community Contributor Best Declaration of War Best Discord Server Best Leak Best Meme Best Wall of Text Biggest Controversy Funniest Event Sexiest Voice For some inspiration, here are some of the categories from previous years (along with some nominations from the Organizing Committee) that will automatically be included in the nominations: Spoiler Best Gaming Crew Best Business (news outlets, banks, graphic design companies, etc) Best Art Designer Best Moderator (can be either forums or discord) Poster You Most Love to Hate Largest E-Peen Best Fighter Best Raider Player You’re Pretty Sure will be Playing in 2050 Player that is Worst at Responding to DMs Best Player Avatar Best Player Signature Player of the Year Biggest Warmongers Biggest Pixelhuggers Feel free to nominate as many new categories in the thread below as you like but make each nomination a separate post. Brownie points if you accompany your category nominations with a description. Category nominations will need to receive at least 5 upvotes to be included in the final voting poll. The voting for new categories will take place from January 7-9, 2022. Happy nominating! Edited January 3, 2022 by Scott1716 12 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JadenStar10 Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 Best Taxfarm 13 7 Quote Hammer Councillor of The Lost Mines Diety Emeritus of The Immortals, Patres Conscripti (President Emeritus) of the Independent Republic of Orange Nations, Lieutenant Emeritus of Black Skies, Imperator Emeritus of the Valyrian Freehold, Imperator Emeritus of the Divine Phoenix, Prefect Emeritus of Carthago, Regent Emeritus of the New Polar Order, Coal Duke (Imperator Emeritus) of The Coal Mines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Changeup Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 (edited) Best Merger Funniest Post Edited January 3, 2022 by Changeup 3 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnauzerguy Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 (edited) Best coup Edited January 3, 2022 by Schnauzerguy Request from adrienne 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yzard Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 I'll riot if I don't win anything 😤 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, Schnauzerguy said: Best coup (or best copypasta) Can you separate those into two, so people can upvote then individually? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnauzerguy Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Best copypasta 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JadenStar10 Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 Most Dishonourable Alliance 16 Quote Hammer Councillor of The Lost Mines Diety Emeritus of The Immortals, Patres Conscripti (President Emeritus) of the Independent Republic of Orange Nations, Lieutenant Emeritus of Black Skies, Imperator Emeritus of the Valyrian Freehold, Imperator Emeritus of the Divine Phoenix, Prefect Emeritus of Carthago, Regent Emeritus of the New Polar Order, Coal Duke (Imperator Emeritus) of The Coal Mines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KindaEpicMoah Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 Biggest loser (measured by # of loser weapons used) 13 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnauzerguy Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Best bribe (ex: krampus bribing merky /s) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kamala Khan Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 (edited) Best Government Member Edited January 3, 2022 by Zach LaVine 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post namukara Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 Best alliance member (non-high gov) That guy who is a credit to the alliance, has been for a while now but seems to have no real interest in gov. They may be someone who's always there to offer support OOC to a player in a crisis, someone who seems to always be around to offer counters, someone who you can count on to lend a hand with alliance events or anything else that makes the player in question an all around good person to have around. 2 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Horsecock Posted January 3, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 3, 2022 Most likely to succeed in 2022. One of the most important player categories. 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namukara Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, Horsecock said: Most likely to succeed in 2022. One of the most important player categories. But we already know that'll be Oasis. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonKnight Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Best Leaks 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hidude45454 Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 (edited) Appreciate that the final shortlist size was doubled and the number of categories halved. But if there are two things I would argue, there should be more leeway than just the four additional categories, and alliance representative votes should also be weighted less than they were last year. That being said, my first suggestion: Best Fighter and Best Raider -- PnW experienced five globals this year, more than any other year (Last Ride, GnR, Brawlywood, GW20, and GW21), and saw the existence of several prolific raiding alliances (Mythic, Arrgh, SI, KT, 99a, RIE, DEFCON-5, etc.), so I think would be absolutely criminal to exclude either of these. Not putting these two in separate posts because they go hand-in-hand and including one should naturally mean including the other. Edited January 4, 2022 by hidude45454 1 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KindaEpicMoah Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 Best bromance but don't allow Alex to be nominated this year 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hidude45454 Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 Player of the Year -- not sure why this was removed, as my opinions to similar categories of Best Alliance Leader and Most Influential Player don't exactly equate to the same thing. 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mr. Pants Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 Best fruit themed player 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KindaEpicMoah Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 Best raid target (regardless of activity) 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 1 hour ago, hidude45454 said: alliance representative votes should also be weighted less than they were last year. Alliance representative votes aren't weighted this year. If the alliance representative's winner is different than the players' winner, both will be announced/win. We'll also consider your thoughts on the categories, depending on the number of categories nominated and the voting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dorian Grey Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 Alliance most likely to succeed in 2022 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMorf Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Best new radio show 2021 👀 2 Quote The Knights Radiant Ghostblood Babsk of Foreign Affairs Journey before Destination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alyster Posted January 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 4, 2022 Worst war name 1 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redpanda but on the forums Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Best redpanda ofc 2 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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