ASB Awards 2010

The event hall in ASB Central, dark and quiet for most of the year, is all aglow tonight, drawing trainers to its doors like so many moths. Inside, newbies and veterans alike mingle and enjoy the copious amounts of food trucked out to celebrate the league's fifth birthday, as well as a chance to get up close to the greatest trainers in Asber. As the night wears on, it at last comes time to announce the winners of this year's ASB awards, and the chatter dies down entirely as the head referee mounts the stage, envelope in hand and prepared to announce this year's venerable recipients...


I knew I was forgetting about something for the past week... or two. Anyway, it's that time of year again: with the league's birthday approaching in October, we need to get this year's awards sorted out in time for the festivities. If you're just tuning in now, the ASB awards are a once-yearly event to honor ASB's trainers and referees. Unless stated otherwise, anyone in the league is eligible for an award, so take a moment to give a shout-out to anyone in the league you think is particularly awesome. The awards take place in three stages:

1. Discussion of categories: now through September 17th. Most categories from last year return, although I pruned one or two that didn't get much interest. Feel free to suggest any new ones you think might be appropriate. Please no negative categories (e.g. "Worst Battler"), though.

2. Nominations: run from the 18th through the 25th. PM your nominations for as many different categories as you like to me.

3. Voting: takes place from September 26th to October 3rd. Voting is carried out by PM.

The results will be announced on the league's fifth birthday, which is October 4th.

Might I suggest a best fakemon award?

^ I strongly second this idea and vote for Wyrmal or Dragomelet's lines.

Are we allowed to nominate ourself? I won't do something crazy like me for every category. I know some categories I could nominate several for.

Squornshellous Beta said:

^ I strongly second this idea and vote for Wyrmal or Dragomelet's lines.

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Eh, nominations aren't open yet.

Also, I thought maybe of a best single reffing award, but it would be difficult to pick nominations for that one, wouldn't it?

Could there be a 'Best Team Award'?

Metallica Fanboy said:

Might I suggest a best fakemon award?

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Will add.

Brock said:

Are we allowed to nominate ourself? I won't do something crazy like me for every category. I know some categories I could nominate several for.

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When nominations open, you won't be able to nominate yourself, no. Bribe a friend.

You can nominate more than one person per category, though.

Metallica Fanboy said:

Eh, nominations aren't open yet.

Also, I thought maybe of a best single reffing award, but it would be difficult to pick nominations for that one, wouldn't it?

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We've had a best single reffing award in the past, with somewhat mixed results. If people are interested in seeing it back, I have no problem adding it.

Barubu said:

Could there be a 'Best Team Award'?

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Hmm, I'm not really sure how this would work. I mean, some people have way more pokémon than others, so wouldn't they kind of automatically have the best teams? Without a limit on how large squads can be, there's nothing to stop anybody from just grabbing a bunch of cool pokémon, so teams don't tend to be as distinguishable from one another as they would be if you had limits. I guess what I'm asking is, what kind of criteria would you be using to determine the "best team?"

I was thinking of basing it upon things like nicknames and signature attributes/moves, and award the person who had the best overall creative-ness.

How about the Best Shop Award?

Okay yeah going back to my ASB grave now.

NO WAIT. Best Contest Appeal.

Barubu said:

I was thinking of basing it upon things like nicknames and signature attributes/moves, and award the person who had the best overall creative-ness.

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Hmm, well, we already have awards for those first two... I don't know, it just strikes me as a kind of vague category.

shadow_lugia said:

How about the Best Shop Award?

Okay yeah going back to my ASB grave now.

NO WAIT. Best Contest Appeal.

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The only problem I have with those two ideas is that there haven't been many shops or contest appeals made since last year.

Best Metronome Result. and now with your metronome generator fixed!

Maybe something like "most entertaining battle?" It seems like it would cover the metronome thing pretty well.

that works.

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Well 'Best' nickname/sig move/etc. could be a toss-up of different people's opinions.

Would 'Best' new battler be the one with the best record? If so... I have 2 wins out of 3. Yayness. ((ssh that one didn't even have a round, and the other was a forfeit))

Brock said:

Would 'Best' new battler be the one with the best record? If so... I have 2 wins out of 3. Yayness. ((ssh that one didn't even have a round, and the other was a forfeit))

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If that was it then newer battlers wouldn't stand a chance.

It's more than anything a matter of personal opinion, as far as I'm concerned.

Well 'Best' nickname/sig move/etc. could be a toss-up of different people's opinions.

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That's all you're going to get if you're doing a straight open-to-anyone majority-rules award program like this one.

Best battler is for the person most skilled at battling, not necessarily the person with the best record. (A good trainer who battles other good trainer and loses now and again is still a better battler than a mediocre trainer who only battles bad trainers and always wins.)

Incidentally, would 'Best Fakemon' only count things that have been officially approved and are thus available for purchase, or would it count anything that's been declared 'passable' (that is to say, my ones)?

Okay, nevermind.

I'm wondering what the criteria is for the "Best New ASBer" award. Is it solely opinion based, or does it have to do with battling/skill/active-ness,etc?