2017 AP Awards Awards Presentation and Celebration Thread

[Ubiq]

Hey, I still got these in before a third of the year is gone. Considering that 2017 lasted roughly thirty years, that's pretty good.

Let's get to it. Drumroll, please.

… Alright, then.

First off, the Awards for Threads and Posts.

The Winner of the Best Thread in 2017 was:

! One Piece celebrates its 20th Anniversary in 2017!

The Winner of the Worst Thread in 2017 was:

! Warning: "MangaStream" is using mining script in their page

The Winner of the Best Debate in 2017 was:

! Star Wars: The Last Jedi discussion

The Winner of Funniest Post in 2017 was:

!
Squard betrays Big Mom by .access timeco.

The Winner of Best Moment of the Board for 2017 was:

! The salty tears of fans, when baking the new cake was finally introduced in the story.

And now on to the Member Awards.

The Most Memorable Member of 2017 was:

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K. Kira XXIII!

The Most Profoundly Quotable Member of 2017 was:

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RomanceDawn!

2017's Most Articulate Writer was:

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Count Mario!

The Most Intelligent Member for 2017 was:

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Count Mario!

The Most Dedicated Member for 2017 was:

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Galaxy 9000!

The Most Original Member for 2017 was:

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KageKageKing!

The Best New Member from 2017 was:

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Big Black Hole!

The Favorite Moderator (Global or Section) or Administrator for Arlong Park for 2017 was:

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FEMME!

The Friendliest Member for 2017 was:

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RomanceDawn!

The Funniest Member for 2017 was:

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Wagomu!

The Best Researcher for 2017 was:

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Sandman!

The Best Forum Gamer for 2017 was:

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Galaxy 9000!

The Pirate King for 2017 was:

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Count Mario!

The Pirate Queen for 2017 was:

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Demon Rin!

The Best Artist for 2017 was:

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CCC!

The Best Avatar for 2017 was:

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Kaido King of the Beasts

The Best Signature for 2017 was:

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Jabberwok!

And now the Manga Related Awards.

The Best Moment of One Piece for 2017 was:

! SINFUL, SINFUL,YUMMY DOUGHNUTS as Katakuri shows off his wonderful chompers.

The Worst Moment of One Piece for 2017 was:

! Pudding's characterization is shattered by a superficial compliment and a flimsy backstory.

The Most Super Moment of Dragon Ball Super was:

! Roshi's actually given some screen time to beat the shit out of Universe 4!

The Most Heroic Moment to date for One Punch Man was:

! Licenseless Rider's Hero speech!

The Most Heroic Moment to date for My Hero Academia was:

! UNITED STATES OF SMASH!

The Best Series for 2017 was:

! Dr. Stone.

The Worst Series for 2017 was:

! Fairy Tail.

The Best Movie of 2017 was:

! Get Out!

The Worst Movie of 2017 was:

! The Emoji Movie, which still seems like it couldn't have been a real thing from an actual studio.

The Best Animated Film of 2017 was:

! COCO!

The Best Game of 2017 was:

! BotW! Also that being category GG. was entirely accidental.

The Worst Game of 2017 was:

! Star Wars Battlefront II!

The Best Forum Game of 2017 was:

! One Piece Big Brother 5: The jive, live! by Kaibo, King of Beats

The Best Fancreation for 2017 was:

! CCC's Shigaraki Tomura sculpture!

The Winner of the Second Annual C. Yasutora Sado Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Mediocrity goes to:

! ROCK LEE!

The Tournament of Power MVP was:

! Android 17! You only thought I skipped LL!

The All Time Best Least Awful Fairy Tail Moment was:

! All that fanservice.

The All Time Worst Fairy Tail Moment was:

! A naked Erza pees herself in fear on-screen, reaffirming her identity as a strong female character.

As always, I want to thank everybody who participated along with congratulating the winners and nominees. Special consideration and thanks to Jabra for providing the signatures for the Awards.

See you next time!

–- Update From New Post Merge ---

Also due to hosting issues, the images for 2016 were deleted. Jabra has graciously uploaded them again for anybody who used them as signatures. Here they are.

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[Shift]

Good job sweeping it, King Count Mario! Congrats to all the winners!

[BellisarioFaith]

Cool stuff, yo! Congrats to everybody, another fun year~

[Kaido King of the Beasts]

Congratulations to all the winners! Honored to win Best Avatar; now time to mask my Fairy Tail-quality posts with another award bait avatar/signature combo :ninja:

2018 on AP has been fun so far, here's hoping for even better things in the remainder (some of which hopefully take place outside of the Next Crewmate thread so I don't have to go there)

[Demon Rin]

Woo! That time a year again! Time to see who all won thi-

…..... What?..... wait.... WHAT?!?! I.... I.... Pirate Queen....

You guys...

This is…. just.... wow.... thank you... thank you so much!!!

Also, perfect choices everywhere else. Count Mario swept! Congrats! Also lol at Pudding's turn winning worst moment.

[Dranza]

Congratulations to the all the winners and nominees too you guys were great In 2017. Count, keep doing your thing bro haha.

@Demon:

Woo! That time a year again! Time to see who all won thi-

…..... What?..... wait.... WHAT?!?! I.... I.... Pirate Queen....

You guys...
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This is…. just.... wow.... thank you... thank you so much!!!

Also, perfect choices everywhere else. Count Mario swept! Congrats! Also lol at Pudding's turn winning worst moment.

Honestly this is the first post I've ever seen of yours, which threads are you usually active on?

[Long John Silvers Rayleigh]

Good winners, I think Mario won everything he was nominated for lol

About the worst moment

! Is it really her character being shattered if her evil self had no depth and woud have had almost 0 accolodes from here if she was a man? I get the unfortunate implications and tiredness of oda doing the same thing with Viola but she was basically "evil for the lulz". So while people can hate the reverse Its not like he made a 3D great character and just ruined her.

Also that Carrot insigna for best new member is delightfully devilish

[K. Kira XXIII]

Thanks for the vote! Congrats to all the winners!

I had to look at my name 10 times before using the picture, still cannot believe it.

[sandman]

Congrats to all winners! And thank you Ubiq and Jabra for your hard work about this awards every year

I didn't imagine I could win Best Reseacher Award again considering I accidentally posted some fake news last year. Anyway, thank you for voting me!

[wolfwood]

The count is a jerk and it's not like we like him or anything.

But y'know we don't really mind if he's the smartest king or whatever

[Count Mario]

Uh… Wow. I actually thought that I wouldn't win any awards besides maybe Most Articulate again. I feel like I was slightly less active in 2017 and that my new member flavor ran its course. All of this is such a pleasant surprise. ESPECIALLY Pirate King. Just... damn, this is magical for me. Thank you all so very much.

Rock Lee winning the Most Mediocre award is probably his best accomplishment in existence. I don't know whether to take that as a sign of how beloved or disappointing a character he was.

@Shift:

Good job sweeping it, King Count Mario! Congrats to all the winners!

Thanks! Galaxy definitely deserves Most Dedicated, but I was pulling for you to win due to the constant New Crewmate thread debates about Carrot. At least that Best New Member image counts as a consolation prize lol.

@Dranza:

Congratulations to the all the winners and nominees too you guys were great In 2017. Count, keep doing your thing bro haha.

Thanks, man. I really appreciate that coming from you.

Honestly this is the first post I've ever seen of yours, which threads are you usually active on?

I usually see her active in the General and Media sections.

@Long:

Good winners, I think Mario won everything he was nominated for lol

The only category I didn't win is Most Memorable lol.

@Kaido:

Congratulations to all the winners! Honored to win Best Avatar; now time to mask my Fairy Tail-quality posts with another award bait avatar/signature combo :ninja:

I've always loved how far you've gone with the Kaido-themed avatars and signatures. When Wano Country finally starts, you will have all sorts of new material to exploit. Especially when your "Future Disappointment" byline inevitably comes true lol.

2018 on AP has been fun so far, here's hoping for even better things in the remainder (some of which hopefully take place outside of the Next Crewmate thread so I don't have to go there)

The sooner we move onto Wano Country, the better for that thread's discussion. I have had enough Mink and Charlotte debates for a lifetime…

@Demon:

Woo! That time a year again! Time to see who all won thi-

…..... What?..... wait.... WHAT?!?! I.... I.... Pirate Queen....

You guys...
https://media.giphy.com/media/B0LVHBOSizHRS/giphy.gif

This is…. just.... wow.... thank you... thank you so much!!!

Also, perfect choices everywhere else. Count Mario swept! Congrats! Also lol at Pudding's turn winning worst moment.

You totally earned it. I always appreciate you dishing out comic book and movie knowledge in certain threads. I'm an amateur in comparison to you lol.

About the worst moment

! Is it really her character being shattered if her evil self had no depth and woud have had almost 0 accolodes from here if she was a man? I get the unfortunate implications and tiredness of oda doing the same thing with Viola but she was basically "evil for the lulz". So while people can hate the reverse Its not like he made a 3D great character and just ruined her.

Eh, I get it. Her evil self was cleverly built-up and played on expectations that we have about the usual "friendly islander helps take down corrupt mastermind" trend. Pudding's flashback is not only last minute, but weird considering how minor a third eye seems compared to the rest of Totland's weirdness. And after a little denial, she jumps straight to helping out the Straw Hats and Sanji looks like a shallow idiot for giving a compliment like that to such a terrible person who fooled his crew to the doom and shot his sister. These issues would not go away if Pudding was a man, hence the complaints about Katakuri in the disillusioned Flampe chapter. But Pudding being female does add fuel to the fire after Nami, Vivi, Robin, Conis, and Viola, although all most of those situations worked well aside from how lucky Sanji got with Viola.

Also that Carrot insigna for best new member is delightfully devilish

Henceforth, Big Black Hole is cast out from my circle of companions as a traitor.

@sandman:

Congrats to all winners! And thank you Ubiq and Jabra for your hard work about this awards every year

I didn't imagine I could win Best Reseacher Award again considering I accidentally posted some fake news last year. Anyway, thank you for voting me!

You always deserve Best Researcher. And are you talking about that Redon hospitalization thread? No one should fault you for that and you have nothing to apologize for. It only showed how much you care. And despite how grim the topic was when we thought it was true, it actually rounded up the entire forum's compassion. As terrible as the rumor was, that thread was beautiful in showing how much integrity this forum can have.

@wolfwood:

The count is a jerk and it's not like we like him or anything.

But y'know we don't really mind if he's the smartest king or whatever
I am very grateful for your thoughts, Pudding Woody. By the way, your green stars look so beautiful. ~

[KageKageKing]

I actually won something in my life?!
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[Robby]

Folks throwing awards into their banners, beware that pages have stretch limits so a lot of your awards are stacking vertically on on top of old signature bits… you may need to trim something.

[Count Mario]

@KageKageKing:

I actually won something in my life?!
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You might need to shorten your signature. Robby informed me in another thread that it extends my posts a lot. Can your award just barely fit on the right side of your gif?

[KageKageKing]

Bah. Fuggedaboutit.

[Count Mario]

@Robby:

Folks throwing awards into their banners, beware that pages have stretch limits so a lot of your awards are stacking vertically on on top of old signature bits… you may need to trim something.

Is this okay? I notice a bunch of people spoiler images that stack up in their signatures.

[KageKageKing]

I certainly do not remember that Tournament of Power MVP category in there.

[MetaMario]

I for one will bow down to our new royal overlords.

i voted for mario and rin hehehe

[wolfwood]

@MetaMario:

I for one will bow down to our new royal overlords.

i voted for mario and rin hehehe

People always be voting for the hot wife / ugl i mean nice personality husband pairings.

Damn cable tv planting that idea in our subconciousness

[Demon Rin]

@Dranza:

Honestly this is the first post I've ever seen of yours, which threads are you usually active on?

I'm not that active in the OP sections these days but I-

@Count:

I usually see her active in the General and Media sections.

What he said ^

I do think I wanna engage more in there lately however. I don't think there's any "evidence" for why Oda is "definitely" going to do it, but I do really want Carrot to join the crew so I should be in there defending her damnit! lol

@Count:

You totally earned it. I always appreciate you dishing out comic book and movie knowledge in certain threads. I'm an amateur in comparison to you lol.

Haha! I am good at something!!

Also, thankya muchly! Same to you. You definitely earned all the awards you won. Considering how wall-of-texty we both can get, some of our discussions tend to get lengthy and in-depth. I've always enjoyed that because I loves me a good meaty discussion… and apparently others do to as evidenced by our wins here lol.

@Robby:

Folks throwing awards into their banners, beware that pages have stretch limits so a lot of your awards are stacking vertically on on top of old signature bits… you may need to trim something.

Sorry, my monitor at home is huge so It looked fine to me there. I'm at work right now without access to photoshop but I will definitely fix it when I get home.

@MetaMario:

I for one will bow down to our new royal overlords.

i voted for mario and rin hehehe

Yay! I got voted for~!

Thankya Meta! ^_^

@wolfwood:

People always be voting for the hot wife / ugl i mean nice personality husband pairings.

So we're breaking the trend then? lol

[wolfwood]

@Demon:

So we're breaking the trend then? lol

Ah the jovial false modesty. How very royal of you.

But i can assure you despite all evidence to the contrary the count does have a charming personality.

[Robby]

@Count:

Is this okay? I notice a bunch of people spoiler images that stack up in their signatures.

Yeah, that's fine. Long as its not breaking the page.

Congrats on all the wins, it's like back when I was actually active in this place!

[wolfwood]

@Robby:

Congrats on all the wins, it's like back when I was actually active in this place!

And the best humble brag award goes to Robby!

[Big Black Hole]

@Long:

Also that Carrot insigna for best new member is delightfully devilish

I made a small comment about it in my new signature as you can see..

[Zar]

Congrats to all the winners! All well deserved

And wow, three wins for Count Mario. Is that the record for number of awards a single member has gotten in one year?

[The Tenth Strawhat]

Looks like I was a day late, but congrats to all the winners!

Dang King Count, back at it again at making a mark in AP Forums. Good job! Also, I'm glad that RomanceDawn was awarded as the Friendliest, he seems like a cool dude every time he replied to me so I thought he deserved it.

I should probably be more active in AP Forums in one way or another and everybody seems nice, but I'm not as word or conversation savvy as most here so that's gonna be one heck of a mountain to climb.

[No swords style best style]

Congratulations to all the winners! You guys really make this site a fantastic place to hang around.

[RomanceDawn]

Wow I actually won a couple! Thanks guys!

[Jabra]

Congratulations eveyone and thanks Ubiq for organizing the awards!

[Jabberwok]

Thanks for the award! I can't claim too much credit- it's just a random gif plus inspiration from some good good boys.

[Ruin]

Congrats to all the winners and a sincere big thank you to all the people that didn't vote for me because thank god I hate attention

[Femme]

Congratulations peeps :D and thank you for the mod award.

[Johnny B. Decent]

I think this is the first time I've ever been nominated for something in my 9 + year tenure here. :P

Things are looking up.

[CCC]

Wow! Artist and art?? Thank you… (!?) I barely even made anything this past year, but still appreciated!

Also excited about Dr. Stone getting best series ;D

[Monquito]

it needs a lurker badge.
most lurking dude, with Dragon on it, stalking on it like it does on Luffy