DTF Awards 2012 - Results!

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

I won something!

[robwebster]

Cheers to you, too, Jaffa and Adami! Enjoying the victory while I can - it'll be MoraWintersoul winning it next year. You can see it in her eyes, Best New Member's given her a taste for it.

This does mean that I probably won't be making signature banners, though. I fear it'd be milking it too much.

[King Postwhore]

Cheers to you, too, Jaffa and Adami! Enjoying the victory while I can - it'll be MoraWintersoul winning it next year. You can see it in her eyes, Best New Member's given her a taste for it.

This does mean that I probably won't be making signature banners, though. I fear it'd be milking it too much.

Pound your chest man!!  It is imperative you have a banner!

[senecadawg2]

Now, more than ever, I hope that this community never dies 

[Implode]

Member of the year! Two years running!

Obscure has a similar record as well. 

[black_biff_stadler]

Now, more than ever, I hope that this community never dies 

Remember that death is not the end, but only a transition.

[Ħ]

Ħ [4]
- Best Username 2012
- Most likely to be sectioned 2012
- Most likely to join a cult 2012
- Worst Post 2012

Hopefully I'll do better....er, worse, next year. I was really hoping for angriest, but shucks, it just didn't work out. Guess you can't win them all.

Also. I think it was brought up before, but a customizable signature where we can list our awards would be super cool. No idea how to make one, though....

[Implode]

Now, more than ever, I hope that this community never dies 

This really the best online community I've seen. I don't understand how you guys do it. It's incredible.

[Adami]

I probably would have won "Best Deadpool Corps. Representative".

Maybe next year.

[senecadawg2]

Now, more than ever, I hope that this community never dies 

This really the best online community I've seen. I don't understand how you guys do it. It's incredible.

Yeah, just looking at all the posters who won, and considering all the great posters who didn't, I'm in awe.

[black_biff_stadler]

Oh seneca, how you've warmed my heart this evening.

[Heretic]

In my heart, you're all winners.

[robwebster]

Ħ [4]
- Best Username 2012
- Most likely to be sectioned 2012
- Most likely to join a cult 2012
- Worst Post 2012

Hopefully I'll do better....er, worse, next year. I was really hoping for angriest, but shucks, it just didn't work out. Guess you can't win them all.

Also. I think it was brought up before, but a customizable signature where we can list our awards would be super cool. No idea how to make one, though....

I started doing these earlier - you had about 50% of the awards at that time, so naturally, one of them happened to be a category you won. Obviously, that one's probably too big, but something along those lines.

Something official would be cool. What'd be ideal, would be to make sort of banners that were uncopyable - find some way to worm in a watermark, make it official, so you can't get people making up awards (not that I think they'd try!) - but christ knows if I'm capable of that. I tried, with the majesty logo, but I'm sure someone more qualified than me could do a better (and smaller!) job.

The main thing that I think they'd be good for, is that they'd keep people thinking of it all year round. Helps make it an event, an institution. I think that's good - Heretic and Implode have put a lot of effort into this year's, it's paid off grandly, and next year's deserves to be even more successful.

[Heretic]

Actually I absolutely love how those look, rob. Maybe a bit smaller (as per signatures go) but those are quite excellent. It'd be work to make one for every person, but then you'd at least have the images for the coming years as well (although we might change the color of the background + insignia for each year.)

[robwebster]

Tell you what, then. I'll put together some kind of blank insignia, which can then be customised year on year. Different colours, fonts, emblems if you want. I can't promise they'll all look brilliant, I'm using an in-browser photoshop clone (www.pixlr.com - might as well give them a bit of publicity) and whatever transparent free-use(-ish) images I can find on google image search, but you can change the shit ones in future years, you've got a blank one if you want to add more categories, and if you want me to do this year's medals I'll see how quickly I can get them done. Hopefully sooner than August.





These were the other three, by the way. "Most likely to leave" and "Most likely to be elected" are, er, half-finished. Is the line I'm going to use. I did say I was rubbish with photoshop. I also fear that the emblem on "Musician" just plain won't be legible at a smaller size. It's not great at the current size. So if there's anyone else who's game to do this, I'm sure there are people who could do a much better job much quicker than me! I will pay you literally all of my prize money. But if nobody else fancies it, it will get done. Eventually.

[Ħ]

Yeah, that would be awesome! And it would certainly attract attention to the contest in future years. What would be neat is if each person had a running tab in their sig of which categories they won and which year. That'd be a lot of work, and would have to be updated every year to boot...I just wonder if there's an easier way to just make a template so everyone can do it themselves.

[robwebster]

My original idea was actually a little bit like that - I thought about doing little icons, like Xbox achievements. You can have a neat row of icons. Sounds simple, right?

Well, that idea sort of survived in the form of the emblems on the medals, but because I can't draw very well (and certainly not with this mouse) I ended up seeking out transparent images on Google, and they don't always look as great scaled down. Then I wanted to make sure the right awards went to the right people, so people couldn't sneak awards they hadn't earnt, so I chose to add a watermark, and then decided I'd overlap a username and the name of the award so nobody has access to the blank version of the medal, and it all turned into this sort of massive kerfuffle, where discreet icons have become cumbersome medallions and it's all a big mess.

So I'm definitely in a little over my head, here.

https://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/mass-effect-3/achievements/

Something like that, is what I had in mind - medals with relevant images on. To expand them...



Or something like this, where there's a distinct theme:

https://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/fallout-new-vegas/achievements/

I don't know how plausible any of that would be, though. I'm not a very good artist at the best of times. I can rock MS Paint, and I can find my way around photoshop software, but by and large. How do people go about making achievement icons?

[black_biff_stadler]

I think the "Funniest member" badge should be a tomato splattered onto a wall.

[KevShmev]

Best Thread Starter
- AndyDT
- jingle.boy "for DT *moments*
- Chino
* KevShmev

 

Thanks, DTF community.

[senecadawg2]

All those vs threads did it for me. Keep it up!

[black_biff_stadler]

v vs. s: one letter to rule them all!

[Implode]

Who's the most experienced at pixel art? They could probably makes some really good small emblems.

Or we could go 2005 and make those small userbars for everyone. 

[SeRoX]

So I was not nominated as a best returning member but being worst thread winner. This will not be forgotten. 

Seriously, fun to follow. At least I won something, that means a lot to me.

[Zydar]

Wow, I am truly humbled and happy over all the winnings and nominations! I had hopes about having maybe one nomination, but this was really unthinkable.

Thanks DTF, you guys truly rock


Edit: I don't remember winning Angriest Member last year, that's so totally out of character for me

[lonestar]

Great work guys!!!


And quite humbled to have won such prestigious awards.

[Adami]

Great work guys!!!


And quite humbled to have won such prestigious awards.

Ohhh that's another award I could have won "Worst Lonestar customer".

[jingle.boy]

Great work guys!!!


And quite humbled to have won such prestigious awards.

Ohhh that's another award I could have won "Worst Lonestar customer".

Guess by default I'd be the "best them"?

[Ħ]

Great work guys!!!


And quite humbled to have won such prestigious awards.

Ohhh that's another award I could have won "Worst Lonestar customer".

Guess by default I'd be the "best them"?

IIRC, DTVT went to lonestar's too.

[lonestar]

All of you guys were awesome customers.

[lateralus88]

And here's the document I'm keeping:

DTF Awards History

lateralus88 [1]
- Best Signature 2012

Excuse me but...

[Elite]

Although I didn't win anything in the end, I want to thank everyone who voted for me in whatever category
Implode and Heretic; I thank you for running this, it was fun!

[lonestar]

And here's the document I'm keeping:

DTF Awards History

lateralus88 [1]
- Best Signature 2012

Excuse me but...

 

[lateralus88]

I think I'm gonna bring it back with me to College and hang it on my dorm wall, Lonestar. Best gift ever.

[Ħ]

Hm...might I suggest that the "Best Poster" category, which robwebster won, be kept distinct from the "Member of the Year" contest, which lateralus won? Just a suggestion.

[Implode]

That's the member tournament, right?