TowersTimes Members Awards
TowersTimes Members Awards
The TowersTimes award season is a mad time of year, there are endless pre award parties thrown by people trying to buy votes. It is common for lots of "gifts" to be sent to members for no reason apart from the sender is a really nice guy, it has nothing to do with the upcoming voting.
The awards normally takes place during closed season to help pass some of the long cold roller coaster free days that all enthusiasts have to endure.
The awards are run in a fun way to get members to look back at the past year and think about all the good and bad things that have appeared on the forum. Its also a good excuse to rewards members with a cheque for £5000 shiny new signature for winning such a highly sort after award. It helps keep moral high as there is nothing TTF like more than judging commending people for all their hard work, high quality posting, total spamming of the forum or just being hot!
History of the awards
The first awards were started in 2001/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10 (delete as applicable). It was a great idea someone came up with which sounded like a bit of fun and it proved to be popular with the members.
It seems that due to a slight admin oversight fail most previous award details have been lost down the back of the TTF Chat sofa and have not been seen since.
The 2010 categories up for grabs and who won were:
Best Alton Towers related Topic
In 3rd place is Standardized Queue Time Displays 2 Nominations
In 2nd place is Sw6 Discussion 3 Nominations
In 1st place is you Know you're addicted to Alton Towers (and TTF) when.. Started by Blaze and also Th13teen Ride Discussion, started by Craig
Both receiving at total of 5 nominations each.
Deserved winners, but those which fell by the wayside were some great topics such as The Mysterious Stuff of Alton Towers which had some great potential.
Best Non Alton Towers related Topic
In 3rd place is UK parks are AWFUL 3
In 2nd place is Student Fees Demonstration 4
In 1st place is 101 things we love about Rowe started by Sasquatch Total 5 nominations.
A very close result, but just outside of the runners up was the Pecs topic.
Funniest Topic of the Year
In 3rd place is A quality Game to Play 2
In 2nd place is Scenes we'd like to See 3
In 1st place is You Know hen you're addicted to Alton Towers (and TTF) when.. started by Blaze and receiving 6 nominations.
Fail Topic of the Year
3rd Place is Wraiths Do Everyday Lower - Class Things 2
2nd place is 101 things we hate about Kryn! 4
1st place is Shrek attraction for 2011? started by Craig, receiving 6 nominations.
Just missing out a place in the top 3 was the infamous topic Front seat Queues
Best WIKI Article
In 2nd place are The Air & Hex articles both receiving 2 nominations each
In 1st place is Wardley's Jacket submitted by Rowe, which received 7 nominations.
Some excellent articles were also nominated, such as the Ultimate article, but alas not enough to make it even to a runners up spot.
Best RCT/No Limits creation
3rd place is Blithering Lodge 4
2nd place is East Country Park 5
1st place is Gruntpuddle Park, by Diogo, receiving 6 nominations.
A very tough category, with the likes of Imaginer Johns Th13teen recreation just missing out on the runners up spots.
Best Contributor
3rd Joel 4
=2nd Chris ElectricBill 5
- Winner*
1st Diogo 6
A very close run thing, congratulations to Diogo for winning.
Best Poster
3rd Sam 4
2nd Diogo 5
- Winner*
1st Dormiens dave 6
Another close result, and a deserved winner. Chris & Astrodan narrowly missing out on a runners up spot.
Worst Poster
3rd Ritadz 2
2nd Harveybutterfield 3
- Winner*
1st Richdirk123 6
Months after being given his marching orders, we still have some fond memories of Richdirk123
Best Topic Starter
2nd Astrodan 10
- Winner*
1st Sam 15
A convincing 1st place by Sam, only one runner up with there being so many people on 1 or 2 nominations each.
Worst Topic Starter
3rd D4n 2
2nd HarveyButterfield 3
- Winner*
1st Sam 6
Oddly enough, Sam managed to beat off competition from Harveybutterfield to steal the crown of Worst Poster as well as Best Poster. Surely an achievement in itself.
Best New Member
3rd Jordan 5
2nd Jolieo 8
- Winner*
1st Nora 12
We've had some fantastic new members on TTF over the last 12-18 months. Just missing out on those runners up places were Michael & badgy amongst others.
Geekiest Member
3rd Cheese 4
2nd Astrodan 5
- Winner*
1st John 9
Without a doubt a deserved winner of this award, we are sure john will relish it. Some very tough competition though, and Sam just missed out on a runners up place there.
Funniest Member
=3rd Astrodan Gloomydude 3
2nd Joel 4
- Winner*
1st Diogo 6
Plenty of different nominations for this, and congratulations to Diogo on bagging another award.
Most serious member
3rd John 4
2nd BrettS 5
- Winner*
1st Sam 6
Serious Sam eh :!: , commiserations to both John and BrettS who just missed out on this prestigious award.
Most helpful member
3rd Vik 5
2nd Astrodan 6
- Winner*
1st Chris 7
Another close run category, with Dean missing out on a runners up spot.
Most irritating Member
2nd Kryn 3
- Winner*
1st D4N ...BrettS 5
Two winners here, with both BrettS & D4N receiving 5 nominations each. A much sought after award, which was last won by John(Duckman) back in 2007.
Spammer of the Year
2nd Harveybutterfield 2
- Winner*
Kryn 6
Trouncing Harveybutterfield, Kryn comes out victorious as being Spammer of the Year
Hottest Member of the year
3rd Sazzle 3
2nd Kaycee 5
- Winner*
1st Benedique 6
Just narrowly missing out on a runners up spot was Chris, being pipped at the post by Sazzle. So no males in hottest member of the year top 3.
Poser of the Year
=3rd Sam ...Kaycee 3
2nd Hark 4
- Winner*
1st Rowe 9
Great win by Rowe, commiserations to Hark who couldn't quite cut it here.
Biggest Lift Scab
=3rd Rob ...Sam 3
2nd Diogo 4
- Winner*
1st Hark 7
But Hark redeems himself by bagging the biggest lift scab of 2010, leaving Diogo and Sam looking like pretenders for the title. Better try harder next year chaps. :wink:
Best Lift giver
3rd MattMash 3
2nd Stu 5
- Winner*
1st Vik 7
Just missing out on those all important runners up places were DanB , Russell & Cheese.
Catchphrase of the year
3rd Failteen 2
2nd WOW, look at those... 4
- Winner*
1st Billy Billy!, started by the legendry Astrodan 9
A convincing win for Astrodan and his Billy! Billy! catchphrase.
Faff Magnet
3rd PopTART 3
2nd Astrodan 7
- Winner*
1st Rob 9
Congratulations to Rob for just pipping Astrodan for being the biggest general faffer. Also well done to PopTART, who hasn't attended many meets this year, but still a runner up with 3 nominations.
The Anthony Speers Award for Best Dressed
=2nd Simon ...tidy_martin 2
- Winner*
1st Judy-Poody 8
Congratulations to Jude, you now are officially the best dressed person on TTF. Well deserved.
Funniest Moment of the Year
2nd The canine adventures of Sam 2
- Winner*
=1st YMCA on the ULTIMATE ..Notts Natts slide exit at Europa Park 3 each
Joint first with YMCA on the Ultimate and Notts Natts epic slide exit at Europa. Though as the award can only go to an individual, then Notts Natt scoops this award.
Biggest Fail moment
2nd Th13teen opening day stampede 2
- Winner*
1st Dislocate Gate, featuring Alex & Nora 12
What can we say, the winner by a convincing margin was Dislocate Gate. The incident where poor Alex was violently abused by Nora (Ellie), and resulted in a trip to A&E. Alex has been traumatised ever since and has needed counselling to overcome his fear on Ellie. Both Alex and Nora will both receive the award for this category.
Biggest Shop Faffer
3rd Russell 2
2nd Astrodan 4
- Winner*
1st Rob 14
Rob comes out top again in a Faff category. If it's not buying an On Ride Photo, it's stopping to buy some snacks and merch. Well done Rob, we hope you savour this award for years to come.
Campest member
3rd Sam 4
2nd SAM93 7
- Winner*
1st tidy_martin 9
Fighting off some hardy competition from SAM93, tidy_martin manages to bag Campest Member of the year. Stu just missing out on a runners up spot, along with PopTART.
Most violent member
3rd Hark 2
2nd Astrodan 3
- Winner*
1st Nora 20
2011 Awards
2011 Topic/ Site Awards
Best Alton Towers related Topic
Best Non Alton Towers related Topic
Funniest Topic of the Year
Fail Topic of the Year
Best RCT/ No-Limits creation
Best Wiki Page of the year
2011 Forum Awards
Best Contributor
Best Poster
Worst Poster
Best Topic Starter
Worst Topic Starter
Best New Member
The John Wardley Appreciation Society Geekiest Member of the Year Award
Funniest Member
Most serious member
Most helpful member
Spammer of the Year
Hottest Male Member of the year
Hottest Female Member of the year
Poser of the Year
Cutest Couple
2011 Meet-up Awards
Biggest Lift Scab
The Peugeot 206 Driving School “Best Lift giver” Award
Catchphrase of the year
The Simon & Satch Faff Magnet Award
The Gok Wan Best dressed Award
Best Scare-Fest Costume
Funniest Moment of the Year
Best New Meet Monkey of the Year Award (Sponsored by Deans Meet-up Hotline)
Lateness Award (Sponsored by Stigzy)
Biggest Ride Whore
We are also happy to announce what will hopefully be the Annual “Gold Member Award” this award will be voted on by the TT team to acknowledge those members who have over time made a huge impact to the TT experience either on the forum or meets (or both), the number of “Gold Member” awards allocated remains at the discretion of the team.
