RPAwards 2020- discussion

[Kris]

The RPAawrds is a yearly event we do, to award our awesome members for their activity and RPs around the site.

This year, we have talked among the staff to consider a small change or editing about this year's awards list.

We really think about cutting it down some too.

Here is the list, feel free to voice your opinions on what needs to be changed/edited/removed for this year

Members awards

RP awards

1. Best new member 2. The Cyberpunk of RPA 3. The prince 4. The princess 5. Most artistic 6. Best sense of humour 7. Sexiest female member 8. Sexiest male member 9. The wink wink nudge nudge award 10. Most likely to rule the world 11. Most likely to become famous 12. Most likely to ramble 13. Kindest member 14. Strangest first impression 15. The perfectionist 16. Shackled to rpa 17. Pocket full of sunshine 18. The chameleon 19. Most likely to change their username 20. Best blogger 21. Meme King 22. The Mime 23. Most Frequent Thread Starter 24. Most Likely To Incur A Squirrel Invasion 25. Nerdiest Member 26. The most likely to survive an apocalypse 27. Heart of downtown 28. Best Username 29. Best Signature 30. Most Random 31. Best Creative Writing Thread 32. Best Original Drawing 33. Most likely to Triple Post 34. Most Sarcastic 35. Most likely to burst into song 36. Most likely to become a superhero 37. Most Likely to become a Supervillain

1. Best RP to reach the hall of fame 2. Best unfinished rp 3. Best 1x1 partner 4. Most inspiring writer 5. Most diverse characters creator 6. Best overall GM 7. Most dependable player 8. The novelist 9. Best roleplaying duo 10. Best romantic couple 11. Most realistic character 12. Funniest character 13. Best overall character 14. Weirdest character 15. Best antagonist 16. Best hero 17. Best supporting character 18. Vae Victis 19. Best General RP 20. Best Science-Fiction RP 21. Best Fantasy RP 22. Best Parody RP 23. Best Horror RP 24. Most likely to get themselves killed 25. Most Original Storyline 26. Most Loveable Char 27. Most Hateable Char 28. Most Zealous GM 29. Strangest RP 30. Obsessed With RP 31. Most Dedicated GM 32. Most Original Character 33. Best Overall Writing Style 34. Book-worthy RP 35. Best Friendship 36. Best Rivals 37. Most Exciting RP

Also, since this year we had the Rumble, I'm considering putting back either both or one of the following awards: "Best arena battle" and "Best arena character"

Let me know what you think.

(also, if anyone needs description about the awards, please let me know)

[Highland Sniper]

what you can get rid of:
3. The prince
4. The princess
7. Sexiest female member
8. Sexiest male member
9. The wink wink nudge nudge award
10. Most likely to rule the world
11. Most likely to become famous
12. Most likely to ramble
14. Strangest first impression
24. Most Likely To Incur A Squirrel Invasion (no contest, it's Storm).

I feel that '2. The Cyberpunk of RPA' could be expanded upon with other awards for different genres, like steampunk, fantasy, and more.

[Holeypaladin]

Definitely think best arena battle and character should be included this year, as the Purgament is probably the most significant event of 2020.

[Dnafein]

MY recommendation is to just open ALL awards for nomination.

Then remove all awards that do not receive at least one nomination. It's the easiest way to eliminate the unnecessary awards.

what you can get rid of:
3. The prince
4. The princess
7. Sexiest female member
8. Sexiest male member
9. The wink wink nudge nudge award
10. Most likely to rule the world
11. Most likely to become famous
12. Most likely to ramble
14. Strangest first impression
24. Most Likely To Incur A Squirrel Invasion (no contest, it's Storm).

I feel that '2. The Cyberpunk of RPA' could be expanded upon with other awards for different genres, like steampunk, fantasy, and more.

Uh.. No. Strongly disagree with this ^.

[Kris]

I feel that '2. The Cyberpunk of RPA' could be expanded upon with other awards for different genres, like steampunk, fantasy, and more.

Cyberpunk is a veteran award. The opposite of "best newest member" (aka best member that been around the longest).

I do like your idea, but I think it will be hard to decide members by genre.

We do have different awards to rps based on genre.

[Azazeal849]

I think it’s important to keep some of the strange / silly awards lest we all start taking ourselves too seriously, but I think Dna’s idea to trim awards that don’t get more than one or two nominations could be useful if you want to thin the crowd.

[MidKnight]

I agree with you all......in some ways I am still trying to understand.

[Highland Sniper]

MY recommendation is to just open ALL awards for nomination.

Then remove all awards that do not receive at least one nomination. It's the easiest way to eliminate the unnecessary awards.



Uh.. No. Strongly disagree with this ^.

I think trimming the ones that get no nominations out a great idea.
But the ones I listed, I did for my own reasons.
1. I probably don't understand the significance of some of them. Like the 'The wink wink nudge nudge award' I don't get the importance of.
2. Some I really feel we could get rid of based on name alone. Like at least the 2 sexiest ones. I just don't feel they are needed.

24. Most Likely To Incur A Squirrel Invasion. That I feel is just not needed, because we already know it would go to.

With a few I have listed, if you don't feel I understand, or others might not, then just change the name or something.

[Cosmic Fury]

Honestly, keeping some of the informal nominations really would add spice to every year's awards. The "wink, wink, nudge nudge" one has been around since I can personally remember. That said, I wouldn't mind having a less serious title. At least it means that others here remember me! That said, I really do think the Member Category should be cut down to size just a bit. (25 to 30 award categories still feels like a healthy number.)

As for RP awards, I feel we can easily split them into RP's and Character Awards. That'll make decisions on what stays and goes far more easy on us. The below is my take on member awards. I've not crossed out too many (about 7 or 8), since I feel there's a cultural element for most of them. Still, there are some that just overlap too much.

1. Best new member
2. The Cyberpunk of RPA
3. The prince
4. The princess
5. Most artistic
6. Best sense of humour (I don't see the need for humor in this community, but I'll tolerate it.)
7. Sexiest female member (I remind judges of Rule #4: There are no women on the Internet.)
8. Sexiest male member
9. The wink wink nudge nudge award
10. Most likely to rule the world
11. Most likely to become famous
12. Most likely to ramble
13. Kindest member
14. Strangest first impression
15. The perfectionist
16. Shackled to rpa
17. Pocket full of sunshine (Basically the same as the nicest/kindest)
18. The chameleon (Almost the same as sticking a medal on someone's grave)
19. Most likely to change their username
20. Best blogger
21. Meme King
22. The Mime (*gesticulates wildly*)
23. Most Frequent Thread Starter
24. Most Likely To Incur A Squirrel Invasion (Not sure what this means at all. Off with its head!)
25. Nerdiest Member
26. The most likely to survive an apocalypse
27. Heart of downtown
28. Best Username (Sure, cool usernames are cool, but do we need this?)
29. Best Signature
30. Most Random
31. Best Creative Writing Thread
32. Best Original Drawing
33. Most likely to Triple Post
34. Most Sarcastic
35. Most likely to burst into song
36. Most likely to become a superhero (Becoming famous is much like this.)
37. Most Likely to become a Supervillain (No need to encourage folks like me.)

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I'm gonna jump on @Azazeal849's bandwagon: if we get too few nominations, ditch the award. Having lots of people compete over a silly category is a far cry better than dealing with a bunch of single-nomination awards that we could do without. And we just repeat the process year to year.

[Azazeal849]

7. Sexiest female member (I remind judges of Rule #4: There are no women on the Internet.)

I know this is a joke but it actually makes me think of a semi-related point: I know that there are non-binary members on this forum (and others who “prefer not to say”) - why not have a single Sexiest Member award instead of Sexiest Male and Sexiest Female? Just an idea.