Dying Flutchman
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Finally!

The deadlies 2018 voting topic has arrived.

Time to praise our wonderful architecture heros and honour our fellow forum members.

There has been much activity in 2018. Pleasant forum discussions, tremendous amounts of H&S help and quite a number of new holds. I have tried to play all 2018 holds and I have been impressed by their quality.

So, voting time is now.
And BTW: thanks to all nice forum members who helped me out to compile the list of nominees.

Here's the rules
* You can vote for ONE AND ONLY ONE option in EACH category.
* There is the option in each category to not vote if you do not wish to cast a vote for anybody in particular.
* All of your votes must be submitted at the same time. You only get one opportunity to vote, so choose carefully!
* If you choose to view the results before voting, YOU WILL FORFEIT YOUR ABILITY TO CAST A VOTE! So don't do that if you wish to cast any votes.
* You are allowed to vote for yourself and your own holds if you wish.
* Voting will end on the 30th April at 23:00 GMT, so you still have almost 3 weeks to play any holds that you've yet to try.

The entries for 2018
DROD holds from 2018 in chronological order
* Combined Hazards – Dying Flutchman – 7.5 brains
* BRAINLORD 2018 – Xindaris – 4.5 brains
* The Island of Doom – Doom – 9 brains
* Blind Race #5: Dead or A-Five – Dragon Fogel (collaboration) – 6 brains
* The Blank Dungeon – azb – 6 brains
* The Untold Tales of Gunthro Budkin – mauvebutterfly (contest compilation) – 6.5 brains
* Delta Dungeon – Dali – 4.5 brains
* Tinytall Tower – Trickster – 8 brains
* Ghostsmiters: Prequel – Bent – 7 brains
* Cramped Confines – Someone Else (contest compilation) – 7 brains
* Don’t Play This Dumb Hold – disoriented – 6.5 brains
* Decadent in Chrysalis – BoyBlue – 7.5 brains
* Chronometry Confusion – navithmastero – 7.5 brains
* The Untold Untold Tales of Gunthro Budkin – superluminal – 5 brains
* Blockerture Science Laboratories – Xindaris – 6.5 brains
* Quick Lunch Break Hold #1 – disoriented – 4 brains
* Secret of the Blank Dungeon – azb – 7.5 brains
* Quick Lunch Break Hold #2 – disoriented – 5.5 brains
* Gentryiification – Dying Flutchman – 7.5 brains
* ...she'll carry a really big sword. – Insoluble – 7 brains
* Quick Lunch Break Hold #3 – disoriented – 5.5 brains
* Swarm of monsters – Romain673 – 8 brains
* S A N D – by Xindaris – 6.5 brains
* Deadly Square of Death – by navithmastero – 9 brains
* The Twelve Days of Christmas – by Nuntar (contest compilation) – 8 brains

DROD RPG holds from 2018 in chronological order
* Royal Rescue – Bomber50 – 4.5 brains
* Great place – komachi – 7.5 brains
* Goblin King's Fortress - kieranmillar - 4.5 brains
* Goblin Hollow – Bomber50 – 3.5 brains
* Throw – Xindaris – 4 brains
* 2018 Year of RPG Compilation – kieranmillar (contest compilation) – 4 brains

Award categories
1) Best Custom Game Element

2) Design Excellence in a Modification or Addition
Only one entry this year. No vote will be necessary.
* Skell will very probably win this award for building DROD online...

3) Technical Design Excellence in Scripting
In contrast to last year, not all holds are listed here. There are 6 holds containing serious scripting efforts. Choose your pick!

4) Technical Design Excellence in Layout and Aesthetics
All holds go up for voting.
Consider checking the layout of the holds using the map tool

5. Technical Design Excellence in Concept
This award is to recognise those who come up with something unique in their holds. Ranging from general puzzle concepts to entire custom elements, if any hold this year made you think "Wow, what a cool idea!" then it will be the perfect candidate for this award.

6. Creative Design Excellence in Storyline
This award is for the hold with the best storyline.

7. Creative Design Excellence in Difficulty
This award is for the best difficult hold. Whether this means it was the best hold to handle a high difficulty, or the most fun while being hard, or any other interpretation, is up to you. Only holds or level sets with an average vote of 7 or more "brains" (at the time the stats were collected) are eligible for this award.

8. Creative Design Excellence in Entertainment
This award is for the best hold that isn't very difficult. Being easy doesn't mean boring, which hold do you think worked best without resorting to extreme difficulty? Only holds or level sets with an average vote of less than 7 "brains" (at the time the stats were collected) are eligible for this award.

9. DROD Hold of the Year
This award is for the best DROD hold published in 2018.

10. DROD RPG Level Set of the Year
This award is for the best DROD RPG level set published in 2018.

11. Best Voice Artist in a Distinct Role
This award is for the best voice acting in a hold published in 2018.

12. Novice Architect Award
Which new architect was the best? To be eligible for this award, an architect must have released his or her first SOLO hold this year, any previous contribution to a collaborative hold does not count.
Only one entry this year. No vote will be necessary.
* Trickster will very probably win this award for building the awesome Tinytall Tower hold...

13. Erik Hermansen Award for Lifetime Architectural Achievement
This award is for architects who have been creating great holds for years. To create one good hold requires creativity and skill. But to keep on creating good holds, year after year, requires special dedication and inspiration, well worthy of an award. This award is so prestigious, it can only be won once in a lifetime. Previous winners of the Erik Hermansen Award are:
* Doom (2006)
* LarryMurk (2007)
* Jacob (2008)
* BoyBlue (2009)
* Rheb (2010)
* Chaco (2011)
* Dischorran (2012)
* mxvladi (2013)
* blorx1 (2014)
* Jutt (2015)
* Jeff_Ray... (2016)
* kieranmiller (2017)
Architects who have not previously won this award, published their first stand-alone (non-compilation) hold or level set in 2016 or earlier, have published at least one stand-alone hold or level set in 2018, and have created at least four stand-alone holds or level sets that each have an average vote of 7.0 or higher "fun" (at the time the stats were collected) are eligible for this award.
Note: Here are links to each nominee's holds:
* navithmastero
* disoriented
* Xindaris (RPG)
* Bomber50 (RPG)

14. Best Community Contributor
The DROD community receives a number of excellent contributions from the community that are not necessarily directly related to architecture. This award is here to celebrate and honour those who make the DROD community a better place in their own ways. This award is entirely nomination driven and members are eligible for any reason provided somebody else nominates them.
Here are this year's candidates, along with an abridged list of the reasons why they were nominated:
* Chaco - For acting as a kind of uber-HA
* Hyperme - For countless hours of programming DROD improvements
* Insoluble - For testing nearly everything from the architecture board
* Nuntar - For his work on 'Entry Point' and helping out in chat
* Skell - For creating DROD Online

15. Best DROD Video Presentation
Playing DROD isn't the only way you can enjoy DROD, you can watch other people enjoy it too! This award celebrates the Let's Plays and live streams about DROD.
Here are links to each Let's Player's Youtube/Twitch channel:
* Chaco
* mauvebutterfly
* ThemsAllTook
* Xindaris

Vote carefully and don't forget to tell your friends to vote, too!

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History
History of the People's Choice Awards
The First Annual People's Choice Awards | Voting | Tiebreaker
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[Last edited by Dying Flutchman at 04-15-2019 04:36 PM]

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I suppose it's too late to say that DROD Online doesn't fit any of the Deadlies categories and should be excluded?

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Dying Flutchman
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skell wrote:
I suppose it's too late to say that DROD Online doesn't fit any of the Deadlies categories and should be excluded?

You ain't not gonna make an escape mister!
We'll hunt you down and smother you in love and collective praise.

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Dying Flutchman
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Only two weeks left to vote!
You don't need to play all holds just to vote. There's also the lifetime achievement award, best voice acting and many more ballots to fill

So go vote, and bring your neighbours and friends as well.

This message was brought to you by your local forum's voting committee.

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Dying Flutchman
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One week left to vote ladies and gentlemen!

And still room for many, many votes. So grab your favorite ballot hat and voting socks and come vote.

No registration at the voting office required.

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Dying Flutchman
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Less than a day left to vote for your darlings!

This is your last change.

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