Lets see who is in the line-up for the 2008 Hunter Awards!
It's not an official award, nor will you gain anything by winning one, but I would simply like to express my views about other members, and this feels like the best way.
(Also, if you are a winner, feel free to brag about being a 'Huntey' winner in your journal or Bio)
Dont remember the Hunter Awards? Check back on last year's award ceremony.

And now, the 2008 ceremony

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The Forum Award for Helpfulness
This award is given to the person who I believe has been the nicest and friendliest in giving helpful advice to those who need it in the forums.

And the nominees are:

Hlife_hotdog
MuzzleFlash
Daubeh
Srry

And the winner is........drumroll
Srry… again. Come on, people.

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The Humour Award for funnyism (its a word :^_^:)
This award is given to the person who I believe has had the best comical input to TWHL

And the nominees are:

Strider
Penguinboy
Madcow
FresheD
Luke
Trapt

And the winner is........drumroll
Strider. Go throw a cream pie.

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The You're Winner Award

And the nominees are:

The_(c)Striker
Urby
ghetto
JeffMOD

And the winner is........drumroll
Urby, for starting so many fun community projects, getting people excited about them and then fucking off.

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The Respect Award for 1337ness
This award is given to the person who I have the most respect for

And the nominees are:

Madcow – Beating RoadRash.
Pengy – TWHL3
Stridey &#8211; Smells consistently better every year. Oh, and ctf_volcano <3
Habboi &#8211; STILL managed to avoid female contact all his life. Genuinely impressive.

And the winner is........drumroll
Madcow. SlayerA would be proud.

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The Mappy Award for best mapping 5|<!115
This award is given to the person who I believe has created the best map/mod

And the nominees are:

Ansith &#8211; Black Mesa remake
Hlife_hotdog &#8211; Santa&#8217;s Revenge 2
SpiKeRs- goldfinger
Satchmo - Detritus

And the winner is........drumroll
Ansith

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The Best MV Moderator Award
This award is given to the person who I believe has done the most as a Map Vault moderator

And the nominees are:

MuzzleFlash
Daubster
Sasha
Ant
Captain P

And the winner is........drumroll
Nobody works harder to make TWHL a more commendable place to upload one&#8217;s maps.

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The Best Forum Moderator Award
This award is given to the person who I believe has done the most as a Forum moderator

And the nominees are:

SlayerA
Rabideh
Sasha
Ant
Strideh
Pengy

And the winner is........drumroll
Strider remains consistently great.

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The Best Teacher
This award is given to the person who has made the best Example maps.

And the nominees are:

Madcow
kc8kjp
Muzzy
Mapping.lt

And the winner is........drumroll
Madcow. Again.

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The Best Mod In Progress
This award is given to the best looking TWHL mod in progress.

And the nominees are:

Static friction
6-D

And the winner is........drumroll
6-D!
Just get it fucking finished.

Congratulations All who won.
See you all next year!

Please, nobody take offense from this

Hunter wants enter on Madcow and Strideh; it's obvious. :rly:

Wait, who won the MV mod award?
I think you missed a name there.
Poll: should I give out the TWHL awards (e.g. red bucket of spam) again this year?

YES! I GOT NOMINATED!

Hey, Huntey, something's really wrong with you post.
&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;

You mean something is really wrong with the forum

This award is given to the person who I believe has created the best map/mod

Just curious. Did you really played all the maps?

Urby, for starting so many fun community projects, getting people excited about them and then fucking off.

I hope 2009 will be just as unproductive.

3 nominations and 2 wins, holy crap. Thanks!

...Is this when I give my boring, long-winded acceptance speech before getting pissed off when the music plays? Because I've always wanted to do that.

I think they call that 'Soap Awards Syndrome.'

In before the mandatory "I'm offended!"

I think they call that 'Soap Awards Syndrome.'

Oh, I've got that in spades. You should have seen the time I came back from the dead to find my amnesiac wife in a love triangle with my best friend and my half-brother who at the time I never knew I had. Boy was that a hectic week.

LOL

It was an honor to be nominated.

Do I get a gift basket?

LOL I got nominated but have no idea how to translate that in my language .

The You're Winner Award. Or I don't understand... I think

Whatever...

Why is my Space Shuttle Source Mod not mentioned in the "The Best Mod In Progress" catagory?

Does it suck?
Or simply because i never made a thread about the mod?

Aw well... It doesn't matter.

I notice how HL:OiFH and Complex Opinion weren't mentioned either.

I noticed that Ant was nominated two times and he stopped coming to TWHL, heh.

The You're Winner Award. Or I don't understand... I think

Have you never played Big Rigs?

Habboi &#8211; STILL managed to avoid female contact all his life. Genuinely impressive.

Damn right, I shall keep it up.

I can't believe I actually got that award again. I mean, I wasn't even trying. I actually spent most of my time on TWHL this year avoiding as many technical mapping discussions as possible, yet I still manage to be the most helpful person on the forums? Hey, I'm not complaining!

Oh, and Habboi, I'm going to start challenging that title of yours pretty soon. You just wait.

This one ? I have no idea, just found it on wikipedia. BUt the explanations still left me in fog.

Srry has the power to do anything he doesnt want to!!

Thanks for the Awards Huntey <3
I wish I could post more example maps, but I haven't had a working computer since late summer 08. Since then HL2 hasn't worked very well, nor the computer in general. And now my new one is totally broken. They are replacing it tho, hopefully with a working one, so I can get back to pumping out examples! :>

Thanks again!

I got nominated twice! Yay, considering i wasn't even considered last year!

do not understand how strider is funny at all.

and to be honest i'm not funny either.

how come hunter didn't win worst accent of the year award?

TRAPT'S TEEN ANGST IS SUFFOCATING

ANNNNNGST

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to repeat my post:
Who won the MV mod award?
And should I give out the TWHL stats awards or not bother (e.g. awards for most shouts, forums posts, etc)?

oh right, sorry.

Yeah Daubster won the MV mod award.

And by all means, please post the stats awards

how come hunter didn't win worst accent of the year award?

CROIKEY!

DO EET, PENGUIN.

Lol, i should get the person-whom-nobody-associates-with award

Trapt. Australians are funny by default on this site, nothing you can do about it.

I'm not funny...

But you're funny looking.

An Australian with an avatar thinkin' he's Napoleon.. i'd say that's quite funny.

DONT DIS PADDINGTON BEAR

Time for the official TWHL record winners!
These awards are based purely on statistics, so they have absolutely no bias. Enjoy!

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The Closed Door of Closed Threads goes to:
thehalflifedude, with 8 closed threads. Are you surprised?Closed thread stats for 2008:
thehalflifedude - 8
HLGenius - 7
Skals - 5
The_(c)Striker - 4

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The Blue Bucket of Spammage goes to:
Penguinboy?! I really didn't think I posted that much.Forum posting stats for 2008:
Penguinboy - 805
MuzzleFlash - 793
Captain Terror - 694
Tetsu0 - 664
The_(c)Striker - 640

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The Red Bucket of Spammage goes to:
Habboi! Again! Massive amounts of shouts there.Shout posting stats for 2008:
Habboi - 1685
Skals - 1434
potatis_invalid - 1312
Luke - 1185
Spike - 960

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The Unlocked Diary of Soul Spilling goes to:
Madcow, with an enormous 52 journals! That's one every week!Journal posting stats for 2008:
Madcow - 52
World Crafter - 35
Rimrook - 34
The_(c)Striker - 30
Skals - 30

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The Golden Hammer Award of Mapping Enthusiasticness goes to:
Skals, with 10 maps! Keep practicing!Map posting stats for 2008:
Skals - 10
The_(c)Striker - 8
DragosLt - 7
Tetsu0 - 6
Jinx - 6
GameMasterPau10 - 6
raver - 6

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The (Sometimes) Helpful Advice of Reasonable Use has been renamed! Since the Vault isn't the only thing to support comments now, it has been renamed to The (Sometimes) Useful Commentary of Questionable Accuracy, and the same award is given to multiple people for Vault, News, Tutorial, Wiki, MOTM reviews and Journal comments. There's quite a few to get through, so here's the image for all the following winners:Journal comments: Skals!
Skals - 338
potatis_invalid - 336
Luke - 325
Strider - 323
Spike - 316

Map comments: Skals!
Skals - 132
The_(c)Striker - 130
Captain Terror - 104
hlife_hotdog - 61
Daubster - 56

MOTM review comments: Daubster!
(These stats are the ONLY comments on the reviews, they are not very active.)
Daubster - 4
The Hunter - 3
FresheD - 3
Masta Killa - 2
Urbanebula - 1
DragosLt - 1

News comments: Strider!
Strider - 62
Penguinboy - 34
potatis_invalid - 30
Ant - 22
HLGenius - 21

Tutorial comments: Captain Terror!
Captain Terror - 11
OD-Knuckles - 8
Sillu - 6
Daubster - 6
The_(c)Striker - 6

Wiki comments: Captain Terror!
(These stats are also are the ONLY comments on the wiki, they are not very active either.)
Captain Terror - 5
Madcow - 1
MuzzleFlash - 1
White Wolf - 1
Sajo - 1
The Hunter - 1
Deathan - 1
satchmo - 1
The_(c)Striker - 1
Daubster - 1
HLGenius - 1
yousifucv - 1

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Now for the Official Penguin Awards!
These awards are based entirely on my opinion, so they contain [m]maximum bias[/m]. Enjoy!

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The Sleeping Penguin of Laziness goes to:
The entire MOTM review team. I think the reason is pretty obvious.

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The Dunce Penguin of Stupidity goes to:
thehalflifedude! I think we can all agree on this one.

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The Invisible Penguin of Disappearance goes to:
Ant, for he is crafty and got out of his cage.

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The Amazed Penguin of Amazement goes to:
hlife_hotdog, for the best competition entry since SlayerA's Orb.

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Congrats to all the winners!

heh. Damn you and your unquestionably superior ceremony, titling and quality

And the MotM team would work faster if people gave a damn.

We get, what, 4 votes per month?

You'd probably get more votes if MOTM was up to date, and you'd keep MOTM up to date if you got more votes! Circular logic wins again.

Hurrah!

We really need a better lock for Ant's cage.