AP Awards Presentation and Celebration Thread

[Ubiq]

After weeks of nominations, a week of voting, hours of counting, and maybe, eh, five to ten minutes of planning, the 2016 Arlong Park Awards have nearly come to an end and on the same night as the Oscars too. Neat!

I'd like to thank everybody involved; those nominated and doing the nominations, the voters, Jabra for providing the signatures for the winners, and the staff for providing this forum for us.

Without further ado, here's the winners..

The first category is about the actual content of the board.

A. Best Thread

! Smooth vs Crunchy peanut butter!
! Crunchy for sandwiches, smooth for crackers and cooking. What's to discuss?

B. Worst Thread

! Indecision 2016!
! Yeah, sorry about that.

C. Best Debate

! Naruto is objectively bad.
! Yes.

D. Funniest Post

! Alternative Straw Hats by Monkey King!
! I like to think this universe exists somewhere and One Piece is well-regarded as the most melancholy series ever made.

E. Best Moment of the Board

! Blech is finally over! We're free!
! An era has passed and we'll hopefully never see its like again.

F. Best Tournament Campaign

! Bond en Avant's hilarious campaigns for the Weatheria Wizards!
! Those were a consistent highlight of every match those guys were involved in.

And now we come to the Awards for the people who make up this place.

G. Most Memorable

! Femme!

H. Most Profoundly Quotable

! Robby!

I. Most Articulate Writer

! Count Mario!

J. Most Intelligent

! Daz!

K. Most Dedicated

! Galaxy9000!

L. Most Original

! Huschel!

M. Best New Member

! Count Mario!

N. Favorite Moderator (Global or Section) or Administrator.

! Femme!

Man, after a while spoiler stops looking like a word.

O. Friendliest Member

! The Tenth Straw Hat!

P. Funniest Member

! Wagomu!

Q. Best Researcher

! sandman!

R. Best Forum Gamer

! Wooden_Giraffe!

S. Pirate King

! Monkey King!

T. Pirate Queen

! BellisarioFaith!

U. Best Artist

! Skadi!

And now we shift to the Awards for the artistic expressions of this place and its members.

V. Best Fanart

! Sunny-Shogun: Franky's Future Masterpiece by Roronoa Zacho!

W. Best Avatar

! Cavendish Banana!

X. Best Signature

! Kaido King of the Beasts!

And now, the main focus of the board: One Piece and some other things.

Y. One Piece - Best Moment

! Zunisha annihilates Jack's fleet!

Z. One Piece - Worst Moment

! Understood (anime); voice not impressive enough!
Surprisingly the anime manages to not carry off something the manga could.

AA. Least Sensible Toriko Moment

! On second thought, let's skip those other continents. They're silly places.
The lightspeed approach to finishing off Acacia's Full Course was really the first time you could sense the series was ending.

BB. Worst Bleach Moment

! I can see the future and could totally prevent you from defeating m- and now I'm dead.

CC. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT MY CATEGORY?!

! True Man's World!

DD. Best Series

! Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!

EE. Worst Seri- Okay, yeah, it's Bleach.

! What a shock! Never again though; just let that sink in!

Let's not forget the other sections and the General Discussion Awards.

FF. Movie of the Year - Best

! Deadpool!

GG. Movie of the Year - Worst

! Batman vs. Superman!
! The difference between giving people what they want and not doing that is what determined these categories.

HH. Animated Film of the Year

! Zootopia!

II. Best Game of the Year

! Pokemon: Sun and Moon!

JJ. Worst Game of the Year

! No Man's Sky!
! Speaking of the difference between giving people what they want and not doing that…

Bonus Categories

KK. All-Time Best Moment of Bleach

! Mayuri Shenanigans. All of them.

LL. All-Time Worst Moment of Bleach

! The Heart!

MM. All-Time Best Moment of Toriko

! Toriko vs Tommyrod!

NN. All-Time Worst Moment of Toriko

! Toriko… IN SPAAAAAACE!!! The End.

OO. The First Annual C. Yasutora Sado Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Mediocrity:

! Tatsuki Arisawa!
Remember her? Kubo didn't despite giving her a ton of development and hints that there was something going on with her early on! Bleach was really front-loaded when it comes to the fond memories people have of it.
! And, yes, that award was going to be named after Chad either way. It's actually a lot funnier like this though so I'm glad voters went that route.

PP. Best Forum Game

! One Piece Survivor 6: Arlong Park!

Once again, thanks to everybody involved and we'll see you next time!

[MrBits]

Pretty happy with these results. Congrats to all the winners.

[Jabra]

Grats everyone and thanks Ubiq for organising the awards!

Let's see…. Zootopia and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I will give it a try.

[Silverblade]

Congratulations to the winners.

Most of you helped 2016 to be less bad than it tried to seem.

[Kaido King of the Beasts]

Congratulations everyone who won!

I'm honored to have won Best Signature, but getting a signature for that seems…a bit defeating

[KageKageKing]

At least Count didn't dominated everything.

JK, Count is awesome.

[Femme]

Oh my goodness, two awards. Wasn't expecting that.

Thank you everyone

[Lucky Dragon]

Congratulations to everybody who won. To the runners up, well, they say it's an honor just to be nominated.

I'm abit surprised Deadpool won best movie of 2016 with the stiff competition in that category.

[KageKageKing]

What is a Celebration without a catching song?

[Johnny B. Decent]

Hopefully, one day I'll be memorable enough…to be nominated for something. Anything.

[Galaxy 9000]

Thanks for the award everyone!

[RoboBlue]

Congrats everyone!

[Wagomu]

@Ubiq:

CC. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT MY CATEGORY?!

! True Man's World!

!

[Huschel]

What? This vote has been rigged. I only ever post in two different threads at a time! I guess maybe that's somewhat original.

Thanks for organizing the Awards and for voting for me.

[BellisarioFaith]

Wow, you guys, thank you so much! It's really an honor~ :happy: Congratulations to all of the other winners, too!

Also, thanks to Ubiq and Jabra and everyone who helped organize the Awards~ I'm especially happy to see that Deadpool and Zootopia won in both of their respective categories

[SpaceCowboy]

@BellisarioFaith:

Wow, you guys, thank you so much! It's really an honor~ :happy: Congratulations to all of the other winners, too!

Also, thanks to Ubiq and Jabra and everyone who helped organize the Awards~ I'm especially happy to see that Deadpool and Zootopia won in both of their respective categories

Don´t mention it.
Now comes the part where we mention the Pirate Queen must be sacrificed to the forum Gods every year so that a new batch of outstanding members come aboard to keep the forum alive.
We hope you understand.

[Cavendish]

@Kaido:

Congratulations everyone who won!

I'm honored to have won Best Signature, but getting a signature for that seems…a bit defeating

Use it as your avatar. Be a trendsetter.

Congrats to everyone.

[BellisarioFaith]

@SpaceCowboy:

Don´t mention it.
Now comes the part where we mention the Pirate Queen must be sacrificed to the forum Gods every year so that a new batch of outstanding members come aboard to keep the forum alive.
We hope you understand.

Ah, so that's why poor Femme seemed so traumatized. It all makes sense now.

These forum gods sound like a bunch of jerks. Good thing I always keep a knife stored in my back pocket, so I'll be ready when they come for me.

[K. Kira XXIII]

Congratulations to all winners, I knew it was impossible for me to best Count for new member, however I am happy two of my nominations won.

[The Tenth Strawhat]

I didn't think most of you guys thought of me as such a friendly guy. Words alone truly can't express how grateful I am for my award… Thank you!

[Count Mario]

!

It's only been over half a year since I joined, and yet I won TWO awards. Not even just Best New Member, but inexplicably beat out Daz for Most Articulate. That's… very touching. Thank you all for acknowledging me. I never thought I would make such an impression so soon on a forum as renowned and creatively demanding as this one.

Congrats to everybody else who won awards and was nominated (besides Screwtape). We all make Arlong Park an awesome place to learn, geek out, and be ourselves.

Sorry if I disappointed anybody who was expecting a two-page award acceptance speech for each category I won.

@Kaido:

Congratulations everyone who won!

I'm honored to have won Best Signature, but getting a signature for that seems…a bit defeating

At least you didn't get a defeat as bad as Trebol's or Diamante's. I can only assume that Pica is excluded from your signature because he was unspeakably embarrassing.

@KageKageKing:

At least Count didn't dominated everything.

JK, Count is awesome.

I still technically win the non-existent award for Most Nominated. I think I even got more than Cyan did a few years back lol.

@Tamiel:

Congratulations to all winners, I knew it was impossible for me to best Count for new member, however I am happy two of my nominations won.

It was a good game, Tamiel. Thank you for nominating me. But you would and should have definitely won Best New Member if I didn't overcome my lurking phase in time to finally register. Making a cool post here and there is nice, but being able to find others who are shrewd enough to engagingly converse and debate with is always a main highlight of this forum for me.

@The:

I didn't think most of you guys thought of me as such a friendly guy. Words alone truly can't express how grateful I am for my award… Thank you!

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I'm really glad that you won this. I was worried that you wouldn't win anything outside of Best New Member, but you definitely deserve the award for Most Friendliest.

[MetaMario]

I humbly hand over my Friendlist crown to you, Tenth Straw Hat.

[Noqanky]

Congrats guys!

Also, those signatures get better and better. The Best New Member one in particular was rather amusing.

[Count Mario]

@Noqanky:

Congrats guys!

Also, those signatures get better and better. The Best New Member one in particular was rather amusing.

I take full pride in knowing that my signature now includes a cropped image of a woman feeding poisoning drugs to unaware, candy-craving children.

[Ruin]

Congrats to all the winners and firm thank you to all the people that didn't vote for me, because winning would have been really embarrassing

[The Tenth Strawhat]

@MetaMario:

I humbly hand over my Friendlist crown to you, Tenth Straw Hat.

I'll be the best successor I can be, even if it costs me my life!

[KageKageKing]

Roboblue should get an award for being the most active he was in any year.

[Demon Rin]

Congrats to all folks who got awards! ^_^

[Wooden_Giraffe]

I won something? Weird, but a cool kind of weird I guess. Thanks!

[Mastello]

Woo, so many of my picks won!

Makes me feel all powerful… or paranoid that I was the only voter.

Congrats!

[Bond en Avant]

Wow, I wasn't expecting to get nominated for anything let alone win it.
Thanks for all the support guys. It was my first time getting involved with the character tournament and there were lots of impressive campaigns!
I'm looking forward to the next one. Just gotta figure out which character I'm going to arbitrarily latch myself onto next.

[Nolus]

Congrats to all the winners~ So many wonderful people here! The mind boggles.

@Bond:

Wow, I wasn't expecting to get nominated for anything let alone win it.
Thanks for all the support guys. It was my first time getting involved with the character tournament and there were lots of impressive campaigns!
I'm looking forward to the next one. Just gotta figure out which character I'm going to arbitrarily latch myself onto next.

Ah yes, the beauty of the campaigns. I might give it a shot again this year.

I mean, ya'll want to see campaigns for every moustached character, right?

[Roronoa Zacho]

Thx for awarding my fanart! I've never thought it'd came into debate here! I really appreciate it. Have you seen my 5-gorousei+Kong-Docking yet? I try to find it this evening (M.E.T.).

[Robby]

I won most quotable? But I didn't even remember to stuff the ballot this year!

Yaye!

[wolfwood]

@Robby:

I won most quotable? But I didn't even remember to stuff the ballot this year!

Yaye!

Who'd ever quote a Robby post

[Atuin]

I was happy my thread just even got nominated and in worst category too!
NOTICE ME SEMPAI!

(Also good excuse now to update my profile)

[sandman]

Congrats to everyone who won! And thank you for voting me! I didn't imagine I could win Best Researcher Award again![hide]
[/hide]Also, special thanks to Ubiq and Jabra for organizing AP Awards!!

[Zar]

Congrats to all you winners! You deserved it!

And thanks for the people who nominated me! I'm really glad people out there thought I was dedicated glances at barely-begun essay and intelligent glances at what has been written.

[Count Mario]

@Roronoa:

Thx for awarding my fanart! I've never thought it'd came into debate here! I really appreciate it. Have you seen my 5-gorousei+Kong-Docking yet? I try to find it this evening (M.E.T.).

You mean this one?

!
! And here's the Sunny-Shogun just for convenience:
!

[C_uggs]

Wow !! Congratulations to all the winners and also, to everyone who got nominated/participated. Once again, it was a great ceremony. This year's ceremony was exceptional since I saw lots of new winners rather then the usual winners I oftenly see.

[K. Kira XXIII]

@Count:

It was a good game, Tamiel. Thank you for nominating me. But you would and should have definitely won Best New Member if I didn't overcome my lurking phase in time to finally register. Making a cool post here and there is nice, but being able to find others who are shrewd enough to engagingly converse and debate with is always a main highlight of this forum for me.
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Ah, I did nominate you, so 3 nominations won! Wuuu! Thanks for the comments, I am just glad I have gotten to meet you all.

[Roronoa Zacho]

@Count:

You mean this one?

!
! And here's the Sunny-Shogun just for convenience:
!

Precisely! The Kongorousei! The final-villain-thread was heating over, so I threw in a funny pic to cool everyone down again XD.

[Nolus]

@Roronoa:

Precisely! The Kongorousei! The final-villain-thread was heating over, so I threw in a funny pic to cool everyone down again XD.

Why haven't I seen this one before? It's so great~

[Wooden_Giraffe]

Fantastic fanart really.

[Roronoa Zacho]

@Nolus:

Why haven't I seen this one before? It's so great~

@Wooden_Giraffe:

Fantastic fanart really.

Thanks a lot, folks! There is only one gif on the internet that can express my feelings from the last 2 days: (ready?)
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But, tbh, those fanarts are scribblings compared to my animated projects: (ready?)
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[The Tenth Strawhat]

That Kongorosei Docking fanart (and that wip animation) is simply… beautiful.

[le crystal]

I'm late but congratulations to the winners!

leaves offerings for all the winners and withdrawals coolly

(also seriously impressive art you got there Roronoa Zacho :happy:)

[desa]

Femme won 2 awards so hope is still alive in this world.

[Femme]

o_o

runs out of the thread all embarrassed

[Count Mario]

@desa:

Femme won 2 awards so hope is still alive in this world.

I-I also won two awards…