ASB Awards 2009

[Negrek]

ASB Central's new event hall is wearing its best for the first time, welcoming ASB celebrities new and old to celebrate another year of battle. People-watching ASBers point out their favorite trainers and refs while raiding the tables lined with an incredible assortment of food and drink. As the night wears on, trainers are nominated, votes are cast, and at last, the head referee steps up to the microphone to announce the winners...

ASB Awards 2009​

After a year's hiatus, the ASB Awards return for the first time since the board wipe. Everyone is welcome to submit categories, nominations, and votes, so the more the merrier--give a shout-out to another ASB player whom you think is totally awesome. The awards take place in three stages:

1. Discussion of categories: now through September 12th. I've included all the categories I can remember being successful in the past, but if you would like to suggest others, feel free to post here. Please no negative categories (e.g. "Worst Battler"), though.

2. Nominations: run from the 13th through the 20th. PM your nominations for as many different categories as you like to me.

3. Voting: takes place from September 21st to October 3rd. Voting is carried out by PM.

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

Awards

ASBer of the Year
Prize: $100, three rare candies, any buyable pokémon of the winner's choice
Other: Negrek and Music Dragon are not eligible

Full Metal Cookies
Kratos Aurion

Best Battler
Prize: $80, two rare candies, any buyable pokémon of the winner's choice

Full Metal Cookies
Kratos Aurion
L'il Dwagie
Negrek

Best Referee
Prize: $80, two rare candies, any buyable pokémon of the winner's choice

Dragon
Kindling Queen
Kratos Aurion
Negrek

Best New ASBer
Prize: $75 and two rare candies
Other: Eligible players are those who joined for the first time since the board wipe

blazheirio889
Dragon
Zora of Termina

Best Battle Performance
Prize: $40 and a rare candy

Kratos Aurion in Kratos Aurion vs MurrMurr

Best Battle
Prize: $40 and a rare candy for all participants

Kindling Queen vs ライチュウ
Scyther vs Dragon

Most Improved Battler
Prize: $30 and a rare candy

Dragon
Full Metal Cookies

Best Arena
Prize: $25 to the creator of the arena

Holon Field (Dragon)
The Little Daycare of Horrors (Full Metal Cookies)

Best Signature Move or Attribute
Prize: $25 to the creator of the move/attribute

Dual-Minded (Astral)

Best Strategy
Prize: $25 to the user of the strategy

Extremespeed + Thunderbolt + Headbutt (Crazy Linoone)
Use a Lotad to Block Attacks (Negrek)

Best Nickname
Prize: $15 to the creator of the nickname

Car Insurance the Treecko (Kratos Aurion) [tie]
Carnage the Bellsprout (Blaziking)
Claire "The Dolphin" the Cacnea (Zeta Reticuli)
Folie à Deux the Girafarig (Kratos Aurion)
Mjolnir the Mareep (Whivit)
Zeno the Natu (moon-panther) [tie]​

 

[Phoenixsong]

The only other category I can remember is Best Contest Appeal, but the contests have all moved so slowly that they aren't fresh in anyone's memories and I doubt anyone cares enough to go back through them and look. :I That and I seem to recall something about businesses, but no one uses those anymore so that's not worth it.

Uh, what else... Best Strategy (probably within the space of a round or two, dunno, since setting up for anything longer term than that happens so rarely)... Biggest Upset/Favorite Underdog? Perhaps Most Improved, if you think it'd be different enough from Best New ASBer?

 

[Negrek]

Ohoh yeah, contests. Yeah, there hasn't been one finished since the new league started, so I don't really see any real reason to include them for now. Businesses either--last time I think the two that were nominated were just the one for catching pokémon and the one for evolutions, right? Heh.

Ah yeah, I meant to put most improved but forgot it. I'll add that one. Best strategy is one we had before, I think it went pretty well... not sure about biggest upset/favorite underdog. Might just be that I can't think of any battles that went that way recently, or that I don't know who all would be considered underdogs in the league, aside from maybe a couple. I'll put the first two in, but I think I'll hold off on the underdog one unless there's more interest in it.

 

[Ether's Bane]

Best Performance, for the best/most complete/most dominant/whatever battling performance.

 

[Negrek]

Yeah, that could work.

 

[Negrek]

All right, it's time for nominations! Please PM me nominations for any number of categories; you can nominate the same person as many times as you want, but you can't nominate yourself.

The nomination period will continue until Sunday the 20th.

 

[Negrek]

All right! Forgot to close this officially yesterday, but nominations are over and the voting phase has begun. Voting's pretty simple; PM me votes for as many of the categories as you wish sometime by October 3rd. You may vote for yourself in a category if you would like. For categories that only have one nominee, if you think that they should win, vote for them; otherwise, don't. If, at the end, they've received at least 50% of the vote, they win, and other wise, no one wins in that category.

So yeah, vote away.

 

[Negrek]

Just a reminder that you only have one more day to submit votes if you're intending to but haven't done so yet.

 

[Negrek]

And here we are, on the fourth anniversary of the league's creation, with the results of the 2009 ASB Awards! The winners for each category have been marked in the first post; congratulations to all of them, and especially to the ASBer of the year for 2009, Kratos Aurion! Also, a big thanks to everyone who participated by nominating, sending in votes, and suggesting categories. Without you, the awards couldn't go on.

Congratulations again to all the winners, and here's to another year of TCoD ASB!