Defender Awards

[frattastan]

Dispatch (upvote!)

Reposting from the NS forum:

Greetings, defenders everywhere!

You are cordially invited to the 2017 Defender Awards, hosted by the Order of the Grey Wardens. Formerly run by the Founderless Regions Alliance, the Defender Awards are an annual festival where defenders from all across the world come together and celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of the past year. All awards are decided by the defender community at large, and any member of any defender organization is eligible to win awards.

As it's been 2 years since the last Defender Awards, several of the awards have been either renamed, added, or removed. The awards for this year are as follows:

Defender of the Year [individual] (self-explanatory)
Ananke Award [Individual] (Spotting)
Anarchotopia Award [Organization] (Invasion Prevention)
Eagles Disobey Award [Organization] (Keeping Free Regions Free)
The Blackbird Award [Organization] (Best Invaders)
Sir Lans Award [Individual] (Update Attendance)
Operation of the Year (Self Explanatory)
Best Newcomer [Individual or Organization] (Self Explanatory)
Worst Operation (Our Biggest Fail)
Meltdown of the Year (Biggest Raider Fail)
Worst Invader Group [Organization] (Biggest Fail / Annoyance)
Best Defender Quote [Individuals] (Self Explanatory)
Best Defender Mentor [Individual] (Training New Defenders)
Eluvatar Award [Individual] (Tech)
Karputsk Award [Individual] (Liberations)
Numero Capitan Award [Individual] (Intelligence Work)
WASC Award [Individual] (WASC Authorship)
Lifetime Achievement Award (Dedication to Defending)

The event will take place on the Grey Wardens forum starting Saturday, July 1. Nominations will be open for a period of two weeks, from July 1-15, and voting will take place for one week, from July 15-22. The winners will be announced within three days of the closure of voting. Post here after registering to be masked: http://s15.zetaboards.com/NS_Grey_Warde ... 0238379/1/

Thank you, and we hope to see you there!

Witchcraft and Sorcery
Host, 2017 Defender Awards

PS: Huge shoutout to Shizensky for designing the banner!

[frattastan]

Not sure why the separation between Anarchotopia and Eagles Disobey was reintroduced. Originally it was between "organisation" and "region", but it was ended because there weren't many prominent actors in each single category.

Here there may be some other nuance, though? We'll see.

From the descriptions, it seems that the former is about update-defending, while the latter is "is intended to recognize the organization that goes above and beyond to assist free regions in securing and protecting themselves before raids ever happen" (intelligence, WA campaigning, assisting with refounds, educating natives about security measures such as passwords and endocaps?).

[Christian Democrats]

To vote, must we join the OGW forums?

[Catalyse]

OGW... lol. But, yes, you need to.

[frattastan]

To vote, must we join the OGW forums?

No, you can also send a PM to Witchcraft and Sorcery on the forums of 10000 Islands, the South Pacific, or the Renegade Islands Alliance, direct-message him (WynkenBlynken#2481) on Discord, or telegram the ballot to Defender Awards 2017 on NationStates.

During the voting period (July 15-22), of course.

Joining their forum is only needed to nominate people.

OGW... lol. But, yes, you need to.

"Order of the Grey Wardens". It's not that far-fetched.

[tupelope]

i thought the FRA did this shit

[frattastan]

Yeah, it was invented by Northern Chittowa, and FRA hosted the first nine editions (from 2007 to 2015).
However FRA was closed down last October due to inactivity, so now the Awards are hosted by The Grey Wardens.

Now that the Rangers are dead you should join the RRA, by the way.

[tupelope]

ill think about it

[frattastan]

Yay.

[tupelope]

hit me with some deets

[frattastan]

hit me with some deets

Applications here.
If you are an updater, we use Discord to coordinate. Link is in the region's WFE.
Weekends tend to see more activity, because raiders tend to do more stuff.

That's about it.

[frattastan]

Voting is open!

Nominations are now officially closed. Let the voting begin! Please remember, send ALL of your votes in ONE private message to this account, via telegram to Witchcraft and Sorcery on NationStates, via PM on the forums of the South Pacific, 10000 Islands, or the Renegade Islands Alliance, or via DM on Discord to WynkenBlynken#2481.

Thank you very much, and happy voting!

-W&S

[frattastan]

Nominees

Defender of the Year
Roavin
Vincent Drake
Lenlyvit
Nakari
United States of Vietnam
Deadeye Jack

Ananke Award
Kanta Häme
Lenlyvit
Benevolent Thomas
Frattastan

Anarchotopia Award
The Order of the Grey Wardens
10000 Islands Treaty Organization
Rejected Realms Army
The South Pacific Special Forces

Eagles Disobey Award
Solidarity

The Blackbird Award
The Order of the Grey Wardens
Joint Task Force
Dominion of Tartar Sauce
Lily
The Black Hawks
Hakketomat - the "Personal Space Invader"

Sir Lans Award
Vincent Drake
Roavin
Catalyse
Kanta Häme

Operation of the Year
Warzone Europe
The major update of 9 April 2017
The major update of 16 June 2017
The defence of Island of Atlas
The defence of European Union
The defences of European Union and Equestria
The liberation of Singapore

Best Newcomer
Roavin
United States of Vietnam
Vincent Drake
Nakari
FORGE
Lenlyvit
Escade

Worst Operation
Femdom Empire
Singapore
South Pacific
Eternal Scholars

Meltdown of the Year
The Dominion of Tartarus
Attero
The Invaders
"Operation Ban Anime" (invasion of Japan)
Drunken Conquerors
Raider Unity
Olevsky
La Navasse

Worst Invader Group
The Invaders
US Military
Dominion of Tartar Sauce
USSD
KAISERREICH
Federation of Greater German Republics
The First Order
Kingdom of Great Britain
All of Alpha Wolf's projects
HYDRA Command

Best Defender Mentor
Altmoras
Benevolent Thomas
Deadeye Jack
Red Dusk
Roavin
Tim
United States of Vietnam

The Eluvatar Award
Eluvatar
Roavin
Shizensky
Vincent Drake

Karputsk Award
Red Dusk
Tim
United States of Vietnam
Witchcraft and Sorcery

Numero Capitan Award
Benevolent Thomas
Nakari
Roavin

WASC Award
Tim
Altmoras
Yodle
Louisistan

Best Defender Quote
Roavin - "Foreign Policy Objectives"

We will fulfill our foreign policy objectives by fulfilling our foreign policy objectives, thereby fulfilling our foreign policy objectives. You're asking what we did? Well, we fulfilled our foreign policy objectives. What our foreign policy objectives are? Well, obviously, our foreign policy objective is to fulfill our foreign policy objectives, and that's our primary foreign policy objective.

The Grim Reaper - "Pyrosky's Massive Balls"

it's very reasonable to believe that the /reason/ they couldn't ban him
is because it takes too much influence to move his massive fucking balls

^Refrring to Pyrosky walking into a lib target 1 minute early when everyone knows we're coming and not getting banned. (thanks Vinny)

Frattastan - ">_>!"

>_>!

Vincent Drake - "First Warden Tim"

Roavin: @here what do you think about First Warden Tim? Honest opinions only, please.
W&S:i mean
it'd be extra spicy
Hahiha: Shit-poster.
Vietnam: good
Whatermelons:Tim is too snarky
Switz: never leave us roavin
W&S: lol
Vincent Drake: First Warden Tim's first word: "Osiris"

Cormac - "Shitposting"

Where I have shitposting down to a science, the Wardens have it down to an art.

Xoriet - "More Cuddly"

You're more cuddly than I remember, Fratt
You shanked me once for hugging you
Maybe it was because I was raider at the time?

Nakari - "Go the fuck to sleep"



Witchcraft and Sorcery - "Loner"

his frines awlays see me in my bed tho si they prolly thin I'm a loner which totalaly isn't true

[Libetarian Republics]

Good to see the RRA being represented in this year's Awards.

[Christian Democrats]

Witchcraft and Sorcery just confirmed the receipt of my ballot.

[Libetarian Republics]

Congratz to Fratt for winning Lifetime Achievement Award

[frattastan]

Yay.

[Ryno]

Good job.

[Christian Democrats]

[frattastan]

Here for another year.

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopi ... 2&t=446347

[Manson]

Nice! Is the only way to vote via TGW's forums now?

[Libetarian Republics]

Congratz to Wop for Winning Lifetime Achievement Award.

[Manson]

Congrats to Wop. Kinda sad that the RRA didn't win anything though.

[Nequedum]

Nice! Is the only way to vote via TGW's forums now?

Voting was via a telegram to Jack I believe.

Congrats Wop!