Results: GTM Awards 2017

[Dreamcast]

Well if nobody is going to start it up, you get me :D

Here are some awards, kiddos!

General Awards
The RA2 Wizard Award (Most Knowledgeable)
Best Profile
Most Missed
The Pwnator Award (Best Advice)
GTM's Unsung Hero of 2017
Most Likely To Be Online
Funniest User
Friendliest and Kindest
The Dreamcast Award (Least Kind & Friendly)
Most Controversial
Most Bizarre
Most Enthusiastic
Most Improved Member
Best Newcomer (20 posts or more)

SagarisRA2
Ragna
cjbruce
Arcane
PrimevalMamba
TheOrcCorp
IceCreamRulez
KillerTurtleG
NeonCalypso
botbuster
Drae-chan (UwU)
Dark-Al
You may also cat write-ins, but write-ins will only be counted if the voted for user fits the above criteria

Building Awards
Most Unique Bots
Best Bot Designer
Best Bot Skinner
Best Stock Builder
Best Standard Builder
Best IRL Builder
Worst Overall Builder

Tournament Awards SBV posted in 2017
Best New Tournament Host
Best BOTM Winner
Best Tournament based on editing
Best Tournament based on matches

Modding Awards
The Apnax Awarding (Best Programming)
Best Innovation
Best Skinning (components, user interfaces, ect.)

Miscellaneous awards
Best Post of 2017
The Mr. Test Award (Favorite Staff Member)
The Award (Best Emoji)
Favorite Real Robot Builder who is a GTM member
GTM's lolcow (To be determined)

Robot Arena 2 Hall of Fame
Up to 10 nominations for the most legendary members. Those marked with 30% or more of the vote will be inducted. If the threshold is not reached, the top 2 vote grabbers win a seat.

General Awards

The RA2 Wizard Award (Most Knowledgeable)
Apanx: 3 (30%)
DragonSteinCole: 2 (20%)
Sage: 2 (20%)
Avalanche: 1 (10%)
Pwnator: 1 (10%)
Reier: 1 (10%)

Best Profile
Philippa: 3 (30%)
Avalanche: 2 (20%)
090901: 2 (20%)
Reier: 1 (10%)
Hoppin: 1 (10%)
Thyrus: 1 (10%)

Most Missed
Avalanche: 5 (50%)
R0B0SH4RK: 1 (10%)
Cephalopod: 1 (10%)
Thrackerzod: 1 (10%)
Serge: 1 (10%)
Yugitom: 1 (10%)

The Pwnator Award (Best Advice)
Pwnator: 4 (40%)
Reier: 1 (10%)
Avalanche: 1 (10%)
090901: 1 (10%)
Fracture: 1 (10%)
TheRoboteer: 1 (10%)
Philippa: 1 (10%)

GTM's Unsung Hero of 2017
Badnik96: 4 (33.33%)
Avalanche: 1 (8.33%)
Kill343gs: 1 (8.33%)
Geice: 1 (8.33%)
Starcore: 1 (8.33%)
ACAMS: 1 (8.33%)
Dreamcast: 1 (8.33%)
WenXiangLee: 1 (8.33%)
Asbestosstar: 1 (8.33%)

Most Likely To Be Online
Apanx: 5 (45.45%)
WenXiangLee: 2 (18.18%)
Avalanche: 1 (9.09%)
090901: 1 (9.09%)
Dreamcast: 1 (9.09%)
Asbestosstar: 1 (9.09%)

Funniest User
WenXiangLee: 2 (25%)
Asbestosstar: 2 (25%)
Avalanche: 2 (25%)
JDG: 1 (12.5%)
TheRoboteer: 1 (12.5%)

Friendliest and Kindest
Cephalopod: 3 (25%)
Avalanche: 2 (16.67%)
TheOrcCorp: 2 (16.67%)
J: 1 (8.33%)
090901: 1 (8.33%)
MegaNerdBomb: 1 (8.33%)
Pokebro14: 1 (8.33%)
Pizzaguy2020: 1 (8.33%)

The Dreamcast Award (Least Kind & Friendly)
Avalanche: 3 (37.5%)
Dreamcast: 1 (12.5%)
Apanx: 1 (12.5%)
Badger: 1 (12.5%)
FightingBotInformal: 1 (12.5%)
Mr. AS: 1 (12.5%)

Most Controversial
Avalanche: 5 (45.45%)
Mr. AS: 2 (18.18%)
Philippa: 1 (9.09%)
Dreamcast: 1 (9.09%)
Botbuster: 1 (9.09%)
Asbestosstar: 1 (9.09%)

Most Bizarre
Asbestosstar: 4 (40%)
Dreamcast: 1 (10%)
Dark-Al: 1 (10%)
Pizzaguy2020: 1 (10%)
Ragna: 1 (10%)
Philippa: 1 (10%)
FightingBotInformal: 1 (10%)

Most Enthusiastic
TheOrcCorp: 3 (27.27%)
Asbestosstar: 2 (18.18%)
WenXiangLee: 2 (18.18%)
MegaNerdBomb: 1 (9.09%)
Pokebro14: 1 (9.09%)
TGM: 1 (9.09%)
Avalanche: 1 (9.09%)

Most Improved Member
TGM: 4 (44.44%)
Avalanche: 2 (22.22%)
Pokebro14: 2 (22.22%)
TheRoboteer: 1 (11.11%)

Best Newcomer (20 posts or more)
Arcane: 6 (66.66%)
PrimevalManba: 1 (11.11%)
daddydjent: 1 (11.11%)
TheIronSideProtocol: 1 (11.11%) (write-in)

Building Awards

One user thought this was a category and gave a vote to MNB. I'd guess this user wanted to vote for MNB in every category, but they voted separately in every other category.

Most Unique Bots
TheOrcCorp: 3 (27.27%)
DragonSteinCole: 3 (27.27%)
Arcane: 2 (18.18%)
Thyrus: 1 (9.09%)
Avalanche: 1 (9.09%)
Mr. AS: 1 (9.09%)

Best Bot Designer
DragonSteinCole: 5 (45.45%)
KillerTurttleG: 2 (18.18%)
Avalanche: 1 (9.09%)
Arcane: 1 (9.09%)
Virus Bomb: 1 (9.09%)
Apanx: 1 (9.09%)

Best Bot Skinner
DragonSteinCole: 2 (22.22%)
Avalanche: 1 (11.11%)
Mr. AS: 1 (11.11%)
Badnik96: 1 (11.11%)
DemonofTomorrow: 1 (11.11%)
Lemonism: 1 (11.11%)
Sonny_Resetti: 1 (11.11%)
Asbestosstar: 1 (11.11%)

Best Stock Builder
Lightning S: 3 (37.5%)
WenXiangLee: 1 (12.5%)
Pwnator: 1 (12.5%)
Virus Bomb: 1 (12.5%)
Dark-Al: 1 (12.5%)
Avalanche: 1 (12.5%)

Best Standard Builder
Badger: 2 (25%)
Philippa: 2 (25%)
Reier: 1 (12.5%)
MegaNerdBomb: 1 (12.5%)
Dreamcast: 1 (12.5%)
Avalanche: 1 (12.5%)

Best IRL Builder was 9 way tie at one point
DragonSteinCole: 3 (25%)
Thyrus: 2 (12.5%)
Badnik96: 1 (8.33%)
Cephalopod: 1 (8.33%)
Virus Bomb: 1 (8.33%)
KillerTurtleG: 1 (8.33%)
TheRoboteer: 1 (8.33%)
Thrackerzod: 1 (8.33%)
Avalanche: 1 (8.33%)

Worst Overall Builder
Asbestosstar: 9 (81.81%)
Dreamcast: 1 (9.09%)
Thrackerzod: 1 (9.09%)

The results creep in again. I'll probably place them in the OP later.

Tournament Awards

Best BOTM winner was apart of Tournament Awards because I don't know what the word, "tournament," means.
Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Love Machine by Thrackerzod: 3 (33.33%)
Bone Dragon by DragonSteinCole: 3 (33.33%)
Paindeer by DragonSteinCole: 1 (11.11%)
The Final Word by Apanx: 1 (11.11%)
The Tanning Bread by Hoppin: 1 (11.11%)
   Note: One user voted for “everything DSC has made” this vote was counted to Bone Dragon because they sent sh** when I was half asleep. The vote was sent after 12:00:00EST and so I could just remove the ballot if this is a big deal.

Best Tournament based on editing
DemonOfTomorrow’s GTM Robogames: 4 (40%)
Cephalopod’s GTM Robot Wars: 2 (20%)
Asbestosstar’s Robot Evento Uno: 1 (10%)
Thrackerzod’s Math Adventures: 1 (10%)
Lighting S.' Revolution 2: 1 (10%)
TheOrcCorp’s Orc’s Wars: 1 (10%)

Best Tournament based on matches
DemonOfTomorrow’s GTM Robogames: 6 (66.66%)
Badnik96’s Cyber Coliseum: 2 (22.22%)
Thrackerzod’s Light vs. Dark 3: 1 (11.11%)

Special Awards

GTM's lolcow
090901: Infinity (he deleted the lolcow championship thread because he was jealous of losing to Mr.AS)
   Note: Three users tried to directly elect GTM's lolcow, they tried to vote for WenXiangLee, Avalanche, and Playzooki.

Most Fat
Mr. AS: 999

Most Buxom
Barbie: DD Cup
Mr. AS: D Cup
Philippa: A Cup

The Special Category Pip Requested
Philippa: 1

Most French
Naryar

The Box Kicking Award (most n00by events of 2017)
    FightingBotInformal taking over 365 days to showcase a robot
    Dreamcast's typing
    GameTechMods closing for good in November
    Avalanche failing to evade bans
    DeadGenocide failing to evade mutes

I didn’t vote right (the people who did not send a PM or DM with any kind of ballot structure)
Geice/Enigma


All that's left is the hof and a special "best in show" award for the users who collected the most votes/nominations.

The Robot Arena 2 Hall of Fame

Avalanche: 12 nominations
Longstanding member who is known for all of the wrong reasons. Currently serving his second long-term ban. Will he return at age 21 with the same attitude as age 9? 
(thank 09-sama for this, he nominated Lra2 ten times)

Clickbeetle: 5 nominations
Popularizer of AI tournaments, prolific mod developer and perhaps uniqueist builders in all the play styles of his period

ACAMS: 5 nominations
GameTechMods Founder. He built early stock machines, robots for the Starcore AI pack and the BBEANS 3 championship winning Child’s Play IV.


Four nominations
Madiaba and WenXiangLee
Three nominations
InfiniteInertia and Starcore
Two nominations
Dreamcast (Thanks, bronies), DSC, Pizzaguy2020, Pyscolone, RFS, and Sage
One nomination
090901,123SaveTheWales, Apanx, Asbestosstar, DarkRat, DemonOfTomorrow, FoolishEvil, J, JoeBlo, Luigica, Lu-Tze, mtagius, Reier, Serge, Scrap Daddy, Tashic, Thyrus, Thrackerzod, Virus Bomb, and Vertigo.

The Best-In-Show (Top-10 most votes collected over the entire awards season)
1. Avalanche: 48
2. Asbestosstar: 28
3. DragonSteinCole: 27
4. Apanx: 23
5. DemonOfTomorrow: 13
6. WenXiangLee: 13
7. Badnik96: 11
8. TGM: 11
9. 090901: 10
10. Cephalopod: 10

[Asbestosstar]

I want to win best new host, and best for editing.

[Dreamcast]

I want to win best new host, and best for editing.

Well, then you'll have to get the votes.

[kix]

sh**, now i have to leak the py where you become isis bot...

[pokebro14]

I hope I win worst builder award XD

[Dreamcast]

Oh bump, you can vote now.

[TheOrcCorp]

Oh bump, you can vote now.

Do we DM you or?

[Dreamcast]

Oh bump, you can vote now.

Do we DM you or?

DM me here or on the discord.

[Dreamcast]

Reminder, if you don't award me "The Dreamcast Award," then you deserve "The Dreamcast Award."

[Asbestosstar]

voted

[IceCreamRulez]

Oh wow, I'm in the running for Best Newcomer!

[frezal]

Vote for me for every category. I am literally the greatest ever.

[Dreamcast]

Vote for me for every category. I am literally the greatest ever.

Vote not processed. Error 12*

*Improper ballot formatting

[Dreamcast]

A person who blocked me from sending PMs has voted. This post was made to indicate that your ballot was processed and there were zero irregularities. Thank you for voting.

[Sage]

there are more categories than active members

[Dreamcast]

there are more categories than active members

Which will allow everyone a chance to shine. :D

[BDBlu]

I don't surf the whole forum enough to vote for any of these categories. 

[Dreamcast]

Hot take: Just copy someone else's votes.

[Dreamcast]

Bump: The home stretch guys. If you don't think your vote counts, remember that there are two 9-way ties right now.

[J]

TC you should sig the quote of the year. It’d be cute