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The '''Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards''' are accolades given to members of the [[Oddworld Forums]] based on the votes of other members. The Awards were started in 2003 by [http://www.oddworldforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac], who ran the awards for their first five years. Wolfpac started the 6th Annual Awards but was unavailable to present the awards, so this was handled by [[Wired]], who has run the awards ever since.
The <b><dfn>Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards</dfn></b> are accolades given to members of the [[Oddworld Forums]] based on the votes of other members. The Awards were started in <time>2003</time> by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac], who ran the awards for their first five years. Wolfpac started the 6th Annual Awards but was unavailable to present the awards, so this was handled by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=3672 Wired]. Wired continued to host the awards until the 9th Awards. The 10th to 12th Awards were run by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5299 STM]. The 13th and 14th Awards were hosted by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic] and [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok] respectively.
 
Mirroring the migration of most regular Oddworld Forums members to the [[Oddworld Forums Discord]] server, the 15th and 16th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards were hosted on [[Oddworld Forums Discord|Discord]] rather than on the Oddworld Forums, and were organized by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4871 Oddey].


== Procedure ==
== Procedure ==
Two threads are used for each Awards: the first is used to announce the categories and inform members that they can now start voting, the second is used to announce the winners. Often a very basic narritive is used to introduce and conclude the initial post of each thread, typically taking the form of a fictional awards ceremony; earlier Awards use several Oddworld Forums members, and occasionally [[Oddworld]] characters, in these skits.
Two threads are used for each Awards: the first is used to announce the categories and inform members that they can now start voting, the second is used to announce the winners. A basic narrative is often used to introduce and conclude the initial post of each thread, typically taking the form of a fictional awards ceremony; earlier Awards use several Oddworld Forums members, and occasionally [[Oddworld]] characters, in these skits.
 
Once the categories are listed and—where appropriate—explained, members may begin casting votes either by posting publicly in the first thread, or by privately contacting the organizer. Although there are no explicit rules about splitting votes, member will often vote for two or three nominees for the same category; in these cases, the nominees will each receive only a half or third of a vote.
 
Members are not allowed to vote for themselves or tell other members whom to vote for. They are also not allowed to disseminate progress updates based on public voting. Failure to follow the rules is punishable by removal of the member's eligability to receive any awards that year. As of the 7th Awards, it has been made explicit that members are only eligable to receive awards if they have posted in the preceding calendar year (with the exception of ‘[[Dearly Missed Member]]’ for which the rule is reversed).
 
Winners are announced in the second thread, which remains open for members to share their congratulations and thanks. Winners do not receive any tangible reward, but out of 20 winners of the award ‘[[Member Who'd Make a Good Moderator]]’, eight did go on to become moderators.
 
== Awards ==
The Awards are held mostly annually, with only the years of <time>2011</time> and <time>2014</time> skipped; <time>2017</time> was also skipped, but ended up being rolled into the 14th Awards with 2018. The voting and results are usually posted some time between January and March in the year following the year covered by the Awards.
 
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
! scope="col" data-sort-type="number" | #
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" data-sort-type="date" | Voting
! scope="col" data-sort-type="date" | Results
! scope="col" | Categories
! scope="col" | Voters
! scope="col" | Host
! scope="col" | Venue
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="1" | [[1st Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|1st]] || <time>2002</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2003-01-20T11:32:11Z">20 Jan 2003</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2003-02-08T22:31:48Z">8 Feb 2003</time>
| 22 || 18 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="2" | [[2nd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|2nd]] || <time>2003</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2004-02-12T03:30:41Z">12 Feb 2004</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2004-02-27T07:40:06Z">27 Feb 2004</time>
| 22 || 16 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="3" | [[3rd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|3rd]] || <time>2004</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2005-02-19T14:50:35Z">19 Feb 2005</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2005-03-05T20:53:47Z">5 Mar 2005</time>
| 23 || 31 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="4" | [[4th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|4th]] || <time>2005</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2006-02-22T00:49">22 Feb 2006</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2006-03-14T13:05">14 Mar 2006</time>
| 23 || 21 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="5" | [[5th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|5th]] || <time>2006</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2007-04-19T03:25">19 Apr 2007</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2007-05-05T12:22">5 May 2007</time>
| 23 || 24 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="6" | [[6th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|6th]] || <time>2007</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2008-03-17T10:14">17 Mar 2008</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2008-05-18T21:18">18 May 2008</time>
| 23 || 20 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac], [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=3672 Wired] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="7" | [[7th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|7th]] || <time>2008</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2009-02-20T14:08">20 Feb 2009</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2009-03-14T20:19">14 Mar 2009</time>
| 29 || 28 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=3672 Wired] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="8" | [[8th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|8th]] || <time>2009</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2010-01-06T00:53">6 Jan 2010</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2010-01-28T00:34">28 Jan 2010</time>
| 28 || 28 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=3672 Wired] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="9" | [[9th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|9th]] || <time>2010</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2011-01-04T17:23">4 Jan 2011</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2011-01-23T02:05">23 Jan 2011</time>
| 28 || 19 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=3672 Wired] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="10" | [[10th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|10th]] || <time>2012</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2012-12-30T00:43">30 Dec 2012</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2013-01-20T16:53">20 Jan 2013</time>
| 29 || 26 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5299 STM] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="11" | [[11th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|11th]] || <time>2013</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2014-01-17T10:18">17 Jan 2014</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2014-02-15T21:14">15 Feb 2014</time>
| 29 || 18 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5299 STM] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="12" | [[12th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|12th]] || <time>2015</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2016-02-08T20:03">8 Feb 2016</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2016-03-01T16:43">1 Mar 2016</time>
| 30 || 16 || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5299 STM] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]] || <time>2016</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2017-01-17T22:36">17 Jan 2017</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2017-02-07T15:22">7 Feb 2017</time>
| 49 || Unknown || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="14" | [[14th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|14th]] || <time>2017</time>/<time>2018</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2019-03-20T21:53">20 Mar 2019</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2019-05-20T22:40">20 May 2019</time>
| 14 || Unknown || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok] || [[Oddworld Forums]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="15" | [[15th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|15th]] || <time>2019</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2020-07-03T15:32">3 July 2020</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2020-09-07T20:55">7 Sep 2020</time>
| 15 || Unknown || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4871 Oddey] || [[Oddworld Forums Discord]]
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="16" | [[16th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|16th]] || <time>2020</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | <time datetime="2021-06-19T18:06">19 Jun 2021</time>
| style="text-align: right;" | Upcoming
| 15 || Unknown || style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4871 Oddey] || [[Oddworld Forums Discord]]
|-
|}
 
== Categories ==
Each Awards contains a number of different categories—between 14 and 49 but usually between 23 and 29—that members vote in. Occasionally categories are renamed, especially when a new host begins running the Awards, but their subject remains essentially the same. There have been 78 different categories across the 16 Awards, not counting those that have been temporarily divided into two sub-categories; 42 of these categories have only been used in a single year of Awards.
 
=== History ===
The most long-lasting categories were established by Wolfpac in the [[1st Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]], which contained 22 categories. For the 2nd Awards, Wolfpac solicited category recommendations on the Oddworld Forums.<ref name="Wolfpac requests categories"/> Only one new category was adopted: ‘[[Most Missed Member]]’, which was suggested by [[oddguy]]<ref name="oddguy suggests category"/> and has been used every year since. The ‘[[Insane Poster]]’ category was dropped in the 2nd Awards, but returned in the 3rd Awards before being dropped permanently along with ‘[[Most Respected Poster]]’ in the 7th Awards. These were the first Awards not run by their creator, Wolfpac.
 
The 7th Awards, which were run by [[Wired]], split ‘[[Best Artist]]’ and ‘[[Best Writer]]’ into Oddworld and Non-Oddworld sub-categories, and otherwise introduced five new categories that were suggested by Forums members after Wired asked for recommendations.<ref name="Wired requests categories"/>
 
* [[Best Debate|Greatest Debator]]—suggested by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=3805 Killy]<ref name="Killy suggests categories"/>
* [[Best Blogger]]—suggested by [[Bullet Magnet]]<ref name="Bullet Magnet suggests category"/>
* [[Most Unintentionally Funny Poster]]
* [[Best Avatar]]—suggested by [[hobo]]<ref name="hobo suggests category"/> and [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1820 GrigtheSlig]<ref name="GrigtheSlig suggests categories"/>
* [[Best Photo]]—suggested by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=2579 Kimon]<ref name="Kimon suggests category"/>
* [[Most Likely to Still Be Here in 20 Years]]—suggested by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4051 Mac Sirloin]<ref name="Mac Sirloin suggests category"/>
 
The latter three of these only lasted a year and were removed in the 8th Awards, which also recombined ‘Best Oddworld Writer’ and ‘Best Non-Oddworld Writer’ into a single category. Three new categories were introduced.
 
* [[Most Accomplished Troll]]—suggested by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=3805 Killy] for the previous year<ref name="Killy suggests categories"/>
* [[Member in Dire Need of a Life]]—suggested by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1820 GrigtheSlig] 5 years previously<ref name="GrigtheSlig suggests categories"/>
* [[Most Welcome Return]]
 
For the 10th Awards, host duties were assumed by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5299 STM], who removed ‘[[Best Role-Player]]’ and added two new categories that have continued to the present Awards.
 
* [[Most Insular Member]]
* [[Most Changed Member]]


Once the categories are listed and, where appropriate, explained, members may begin casting votes either by posting publicly in the first thread, or by privately contacting the organizer. Although ideally each member will only vote for a single member in each category, this is not always the case, with two or three names frequently sharing a vote. In these cases, the member voted for will only receive a half or third of a vote.
The 10th Awards were also the first to have the prefix ‘The Oddworld Forums’ dropped from all categories except ‘[[The Oddworld Forums Unofficial Mascot]]’. The 12th Awards introduced two new categories, although neither has been used since.


Members are not allowed to vote for themselves or tell other members whom to vote for. They are also not allowed to disseminate progress updates based on public voting. Failure to follow the rules is punishable by removal of the member’s eligability to receive any awards that year. As of the 7th Awards, it has been made explicit that members are only eligable to receive awards if they have posted in the previous calendar year (with the exception of ‘[[Dearly Missed Member]]’ for which the rule is reversed).
* [[Most Stoic]]
* [[Best Modder/Hacker]]


Winners are announced in the second thread, which remains open for members to share their congratulations and thanks.
The 13th Awards marked a radical change from the usual lineup of categories, with new host [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic] saying he would create the Awards ‘from scratch.’<ref name="Nepsotic writes from scratch"/> Nevertheless, 11 of the previous year's 30 categories ended up being used, one of which (‘[[Most Changed Member]]’) was split into two subcategories—‘For the Worse’ and ‘For the Better’—and one of which (‘[[Best Artist]]’) was recombined from its Oddworld and Non-Oddworld subcategories at the recommendation of [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7322 kjjcarpenter].<ref name="kjjcarpenter recommends recombination"/> Of the 37 new categories, some were inversions of previous categories (such as ‘[[Most Unwelcome Return]]’ and ‘[[Worst Artist]]’) while others, significantly, were the first awards designed to be awarded not to individual (or pairs of) members but to memes, events and other content.
 
* [[Best 80s Poster]]
* [[Best “OWF Is Dead” Blog]]
* [[Narrow Escapes from Necrum]]
* [[Best Meme|Spiciest Meme of the Year]]
* [[Greatest Drama of the Year]]
* [[Quote of the Year]]
* [[Forum Highlight of the Year]]
 
Of the 37 new categories, only one was used again in subsequent years, in the form of the ‘[[Best Meme]]’ category. The [[14th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]] under new host [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok] took the opposite approach to categories, plummeting from the all-time high of 49 to the all-time low of 14. 11 of these were continuations of existing categories (though just 5 had been used in the immediately preceding 13th Awards), with 3 new categories completing the reduced lineup, all of which were designed to be won by something other than an individual member of the Oddworld Forums.
 
* [[Best Oddworld Discord Server]]
* [[Best Emoji]]
* [[Worst Emoji]]
 
These new categories reflected the migration of many regular Oddworld Forums members to the [[Oddworld Forums Discord]]. The following year onwards, the Awards—now hosted by [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4871 Oddey]—were held entirely on the Discord. Four long-standing categories from the 14th Awards were dropped in favour of alternative pre-existing categories from the 12th and 13th Awards, and a single new category, ‘[[New OWI moment]]’, was introduced.


== Winners ==
== Winners ==
Sixty-eight members have won at least one award in the Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards in the eight years they’ve been running. A sixty-ninth winner, Abbey, is the only winner of an award not to be a registered member of the Oddworld Forums: she is the daughter of [http://www.oddworldforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST]. Seven members have won more than ten awards in total:
145 recipients have been given at least one award across the 15 completed Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards, with 120 of them being registered members (although some of these may have been ‘<dfn>multis</dfn>’, a ‘multiple account’ registered to the same person as an existing member). The 25 award recipients that are not registered members of the Oddworld Forums range in nature from memes, emojis, events, celebrities, fictional characters, groups, brands and other media, as well as family members of registered Forum posters.


* [[Max the Mug]] (19)
Although votes can be split between nominees, awards are not split between winners, as all nominees who receive equal highest number of votes in any category receive the award in full. This is also true of all individuals who win the [[Best Couple]]’ award, even when it goes to multiple couples, although if the same winner is in two winning couples, they still receive the award only once that year.
* [[Hobo]] (15)
* [[Nate]] (14)
* [[Alcar]] (14)
* [[Xavier]] (13)
* [[Bullet Magnet]] (12)
* [http://www.oddworldforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST] (11)


Max the Mug is the only member to have won the same award, ‘[[Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge]]’, for all eight years. The next greatest consistency are members who have won the same award in four (not necessarily consecutive) years. Four members have accomplished this:
=== Most Awards ===
Ten members have won more than 10 awards in total.


* [[Alcar]] (Oddworld Forums Unofficial Mascot)
* [[Wil]]: 31
* [[Splat]] (Best Writer)
* [[Nate]]: 27
* [http://www.oddworldforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac] (Best Thread Creator)
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST]: 24 (29 counting awards that went to his children)
* [[Xavier]] (Most Respected Poster and Most Dedicated Poster)
* [[Alcar]]: 23
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic]: 20 (21 counting a meme)
* [[Xavier]]: 20
* [[Bullet Magnet]]: 18
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok]: 17
* [[Hobo]]: 16
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4915 MA]: 15 (16 counting an event)


This also makes Max the Mug the only member to have won at least one award in all eight Awards; Alcar and Xavier have won at least one award in seven of the Awards. The most awards won by a single member in one year is six, an accomplishment shared by three members: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/member.php?u=890 Jacob] in the 1st Awards, Nate in the 5th Awards, and Bullet Magnet in the 6th Awards. The member to have won awards in the greatest number of different categories is Hobo, who has won at least one award in nine different categories; Alcar, Bullet Magnet, Max the Mug and Nate are shortly behind with eight.
=== Most Consistent Awards ===
Wil is the only member to have won the same award, ‘[[Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge]], for all 12 years the category was live. The next greatest such consistency amongst winners is to have received the same award for 6 non-consecutive years or 5 consecutive years.


Winners are not given any actual award. However, of the fourteen winners of the ‘Member Who’d Make a Good Moderator’, seven went on to become moderators and one was previously a moderator.
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" | Winner
! scope="col" | Category
! scope="col" | Wins
! scope="col" | Consecutively
|-
| [[Wil]]
| [[Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 12 || style="text-align: center;" | ✓
|-
| [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST] || [[Funniest Poster]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 6 || style="text-align: center;" | ✗
|-
| [[Nate]] || [[Best Staff Member]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 6 || style="text-align: center;" | ✗
|-
| [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST] || [[Most Accomplished Troll]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 5 || style="text-align: center;" | ✓
|-
| Abbey || [[Oddworld Forums Mascot]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✓
|-
| [[Alcar]] || [[Oddworld Forums Mascot]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✓
|-
| [[Nate]] || [[Most Dedicated Member]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✗
|-
| [[Nate]] || [[Best Advice Giver]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✗
|-
| [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic] || [[Most Changed Member]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✗
|-
| [[Splat]] || [[Best Writer]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✗
|-
| [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok] || [[Best Couple]] (albeit always with a different partner)
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✓
|-
| [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=100 Wolfpac] || [[Best Thread Creator]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✓
|-
| [[Xavier]] || [[Most Respected Poster]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✓
|-
| [[Xavier]] || [[Most Dedicated Member]]
| style="text-align: center;" | 4 || style="text-align: center;" | ✗
|-
|}


== Apendices ==
=== Most Years ===
=== Awards ===
Having won ‘[[Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge]]’ for 12 years, Wil is the member who has won awards in the highest number of Forums Awards, although seven other members have been winners in at least seven Awards.
* [[1st Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
* [[2nd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
* [[3rd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
* [[4th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
* [[5th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
* [[6th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
* [[7th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
* [[8th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]


=== Categories ===
* [[Wil]]: 12
* [[Best Thread Creator]]
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST]: 11
* [[Best Blogger]]
* [[Alcar]]: 10
* [[Greatest Debator]]
* [[Xavier]]: 10
* [[Best_Artist|Best Oddworld Artist]]
* [[Nate]]: 9
* [[Best_Artist|Best Non-Oddworld Artist]]
* [[Splat]]: 8
* [[Best Writer]]
* [[Hobo]]: 7
* [[Best Role-Player]]
* [[Bullet Magnet]]: 7
* [[Funniest Poster]]
 
* [[Most Unintentionally Funny Poster]]
=== Most Awards in a Year ===
* [[Most Meaningful Poster]]
The most awards won by a single member in one year is ten, which was accomplished by Nepsotic in the [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]], the year he was responsible for running the Awards. The same year featured several members winning higher numbers of awards than in any previous year, including Vlam, Alcar and Varrok winning 7 awards each. It should be noted that the 13th Awards featured 49 award categories, much higher than in any other year. The year with the second highest number of categories was the [[12th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]], which had 30 categories.
* [[Most Underated Poster]]
 
* [[Best Advice Giver]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
* [[Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge]]
! scope="col" | #
* [[Best New Comer]]
! scope="col" | Member
* [[Most Welcome Return]]
! scope="col" | Awards won
* [[Best Veteran]]
! scope="col" | Categories that year
* [[Dearly Missed Member]]
|-
* [[Most Liked]]
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="2" | [[2nd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|2nd]]
* [[Most Eccentric]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Wil]] || 4 || 22
* [[Most Annoying]]
|-
* [[Most Accomplished Troll]]
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="3" | [[3rd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|3rd]]
* [[Best Couple]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Alcar]] || 4 || 23
* [[Most Dedicated Member]]
|-
* [[Member in Dire Need of a Life]]
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="6" | [[6th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|6th]]
* [[Best Staff Member]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Hobo]] || 5 || 23
* [[Member Who’d Make a Good Moderator]]
|-
* [[Oddworld Forums Unofficial Mascot]]
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="7" | [[7th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|7th]]
* [[Most Valuable Poster (MVP)]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Bullet Magnet]] || 4 || 29
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="8" | [[8th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|8th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Nate]] || 4 || 28
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="8" | [[8th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|8th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Disgruntled Intern]] || 4 || 28
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="9" | [[9th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|9th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST] || 4 || 28
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="10" | [[10th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|10th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Wil]] || 5 || 29
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="10" | [[10th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|10th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic] || 4 || 29
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="11" | [[11th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|11th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4915 MA] || 4 || 29
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="11" | [[11th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|11th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic] || 4 || 29
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="12" | [[12th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|12th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Nate]] || 4 || 30
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="12" | [[12th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|12th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1790 OANST] || 4 || 30
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="12" | [[12th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|12th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok] || 4 || 30
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic] || 10 || 49
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Alcar]] || 7 || 49
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok] || 7 || 49
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=1950 Vlam] || 7 || 49
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=13789 Xorlidyr] || 6 || 49
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4915 MA] || 6 || 49
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5899 RoryF] || 5 || 49
|-
| style="text-align: left;" data-sort-value="13" | [[13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards|13th]]
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Xavier]] || 4 || 49
|-
|}
 
=== Most Categories ===
The member to have won awards in the greatest number of different categories throughout the history of the Awards is Alcar, who has won at least one award in 16 different categories, although a number of members have come close to this amount.
 
* [[Alcar]]: 16
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=7755 Nepsotic]: 14
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=5866 Varrok]: 14
* [http://owforums.net/member.php?u=4915 MA]: 12
* [[Xavier]]: 11
* [[Nate]]: 10
* [[Hobo]]: 10


=== Retired Categories ===
== Appendices ==
* [[Most Respected Poster]]
{{Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards}}
* [[Most Eccentric|Insane Poster]]
* [[Best Photo]]
* [[Best Avatar]]


== External links ==
== References ==
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=7343 1st Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
<references>
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=7453 Results]
<ref name="Wolfpac requests categories"><b>Wolfpac (<time datetime="2004-01-22T02:28:49Z">22 January 2004</time>)</b>. ‘[http://owforums.net/showthread.php?t=9558 The 2nd Annual Oddworld Forum Poster Awards... Need A BIT of help]’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=9642 2nd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
<ref name="oddguy suggests category"><b>oddguy (<time datetime="2004-01-22T05:15:02Z">22 January 2004</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=140594#post140594 Post 3] in ‘The 2nd Annual Oddworld Forum Poster Awards... Need A BIT of help’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=9702 Results]
<ref name="GrigtheSlig suggests categories"><b>GrigtheSlig (<time datetime="2004-01-22T23:21:14Z">22 January 2004</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=140651#post140651 Post 7] in ‘The 2nd Annual Oddworld Forum Poster Awards... Need A BIT of help’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=11501 3rd Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
<ref name="Wired requests categories"><b>Wired (<time datetime="2009-01-07T02:21">7 January 2009</time>)</b>. ‘[http://owforums.net/showthread.php?t=17656 Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)]’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=11637 Results]
<ref name="hobo suggests category"><b>hobo (<time datetime="2009-01-08T23:44">8 January 2009</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=369827#post369827 Post 24] in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=13444 4th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
<ref name="Killy suggests categories"><b>Killy (<time datetime="2009-01-08T08:25">8 January 2009</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=369762#post369762 Post 18] in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=13555 Results]
<ref name="Mac Sirloin suggests category"><b>Mac Sirloin (<time datetime="2009-01-07T21:07">7 January 2009</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=369724#post369724 Post 14] in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=15302 5th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
<ref name="Kimon suggests category"><b>Kimon (<time datetime="2009-01-10T22:31">10 January 2009</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=370060#post370060 Post 46] in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=15404 Results]
<ref name="Bullet Magnet suggests category"><b>Bullet Magnet (<time datetime="2009-01-25T20:44">25 January 2009</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=371793#post371793 Post 71] in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=16741 6th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
<ref name="Nepsotic writes from scratch"><b>Nepsotic (<time datetime="2017-01-15T15:11">15 January 2017</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=626824#post626824 Post 12] in ‘An Opportunity for OWF's Rebirth’. Forum Suggestions & Help. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=16992 Results]
<ref name="kjjcarpenter recommends recombination"><b>kjjcarpenter (<time datetime="2017-01-15T15:08">15 January 2017</time>)</b>. [http://owforums.net/showthread.php?p=626823#post626823 Post 11] in ‘An Opportunity for OWF's Rebirth’. Forum Suggestions & Help. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=17795 7th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
</references>
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=17868 Results]
; [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=18894 8th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]
: [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?t=18960 Results]


[[Category:Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
[[Category:Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards]]
[[Category:Oddworld Forums threads]]

Latest revision as of 16:38, 1 July 2021

The Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards are accolades given to members of the Oddworld Forums based on the votes of other members. The Awards were started in by Wolfpac, who ran the awards for their first five years. Wolfpac started the 6th Annual Awards but was unavailable to present the awards, so this was handled by Wired. Wired continued to host the awards until the 9th Awards. The 10th to 12th Awards were run by STM. The 13th and 14th Awards were hosted by Nepsotic and Varrok respectively.

Mirroring the migration of most regular Oddworld Forums members to the Oddworld Forums Discord server, the 15th and 16th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards were hosted on Discord rather than on the Oddworld Forums, and were organized by Oddey.

Procedure

Two threads are used for each Awards: the first is used to announce the categories and inform members that they can now start voting, the second is used to announce the winners. A basic narrative is often used to introduce and conclude the initial post of each thread, typically taking the form of a fictional awards ceremony; earlier Awards use several Oddworld Forums members, and occasionally Oddworld characters, in these skits.

Once the categories are listed and—where appropriate—explained, members may begin casting votes either by posting publicly in the first thread, or by privately contacting the organizer. Although there are no explicit rules about splitting votes, member will often vote for two or three nominees for the same category; in these cases, the nominees will each receive only a half or third of a vote.

Members are not allowed to vote for themselves or tell other members whom to vote for. They are also not allowed to disseminate progress updates based on public voting. Failure to follow the rules is punishable by removal of the member's eligability to receive any awards that year. As of the 7th Awards, it has been made explicit that members are only eligable to receive awards if they have posted in the preceding calendar year (with the exception of ‘Dearly Missed Member’ for which the rule is reversed).

Winners are announced in the second thread, which remains open for members to share their congratulations and thanks. Winners do not receive any tangible reward, but out of 20 winners of the award ‘Member Who'd Make a Good Moderator’, eight did go on to become moderators.

Awards

The Awards are held mostly annually, with only the years of and skipped; was also skipped, but ended up being rolled into the 14th Awards with 2018. The voting and results are usually posted some time between January and March in the year following the year covered by the Awards.

# Year Voting Results Categories Voters Host Venue
1st 22 18 Wolfpac Oddworld Forums
2nd 22 16 Wolfpac Oddworld Forums
3rd 23 31 Wolfpac Oddworld Forums
4th 23 21 Wolfpac Oddworld Forums
5th 23 24 Wolfpac Oddworld Forums
6th 23 20 Wolfpac, Wired Oddworld Forums
7th 29 28 Wired Oddworld Forums
8th 28 28 Wired Oddworld Forums
9th 28 19 Wired Oddworld Forums
10th 29 26 STM Oddworld Forums
11th 29 18 STM Oddworld Forums
12th 30 16 STM Oddworld Forums
13th 49 Unknown Nepsotic Oddworld Forums
14th / 14 Unknown Varrok Oddworld Forums
15th 15 Unknown Oddey Oddworld Forums Discord
16th Upcoming 15 Unknown Oddey Oddworld Forums Discord

Categories

Each Awards contains a number of different categories—between 14 and 49 but usually between 23 and 29—that members vote in. Occasionally categories are renamed, especially when a new host begins running the Awards, but their subject remains essentially the same. There have been 78 different categories across the 16 Awards, not counting those that have been temporarily divided into two sub-categories; 42 of these categories have only been used in a single year of Awards.

History

The most long-lasting categories were established by Wolfpac in the 1st Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards, which contained 22 categories. For the 2nd Awards, Wolfpac solicited category recommendations on the Oddworld Forums.[1] Only one new category was adopted: ‘Most Missed Member’, which was suggested by oddguy[2] and has been used every year since. The ‘Insane Poster’ category was dropped in the 2nd Awards, but returned in the 3rd Awards before being dropped permanently along with ‘Most Respected Poster’ in the 7th Awards. These were the first Awards not run by their creator, Wolfpac.

The 7th Awards, which were run by Wired, split ‘Best Artist’ and ‘Best Writer’ into Oddworld and Non-Oddworld sub-categories, and otherwise introduced five new categories that were suggested by Forums members after Wired asked for recommendations.[3]

The latter three of these only lasted a year and were removed in the 8th Awards, which also recombined ‘Best Oddworld Writer’ and ‘Best Non-Oddworld Writer’ into a single category. Three new categories were introduced.

For the 10th Awards, host duties were assumed by STM, who removed ‘Best Role-Player’ and added two new categories that have continued to the present Awards.

The 10th Awards were also the first to have the prefix ‘The Oddworld Forums’ dropped from all categories except ‘The Oddworld Forums Unofficial Mascot’. The 12th Awards introduced two new categories, although neither has been used since.

The 13th Awards marked a radical change from the usual lineup of categories, with new host Nepsotic saying he would create the Awards ‘from scratch.’[10] Nevertheless, 11 of the previous year's 30 categories ended up being used, one of which (‘Most Changed Member’) was split into two subcategories—‘For the Worse’ and ‘For the Better’—and one of which (‘Best Artist’) was recombined from its Oddworld and Non-Oddworld subcategories at the recommendation of kjjcarpenter.[11] Of the 37 new categories, some were inversions of previous categories (such as ‘Most Unwelcome Return’ and ‘Worst Artist’) while others, significantly, were the first awards designed to be awarded not to individual (or pairs of) members but to memes, events and other content.

Of the 37 new categories, only one was used again in subsequent years, in the form of the ‘Best Meme’ category. The 14th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards under new host Varrok took the opposite approach to categories, plummeting from the all-time high of 49 to the all-time low of 14. 11 of these were continuations of existing categories (though just 5 had been used in the immediately preceding 13th Awards), with 3 new categories completing the reduced lineup, all of which were designed to be won by something other than an individual member of the Oddworld Forums.

These new categories reflected the migration of many regular Oddworld Forums members to the Oddworld Forums Discord. The following year onwards, the Awards—now hosted by Oddey—were held entirely on the Discord. Four long-standing categories from the 14th Awards were dropped in favour of alternative pre-existing categories from the 12th and 13th Awards, and a single new category, ‘New OWI moment’, was introduced.

Winners

145 recipients have been given at least one award across the 15 completed Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards, with 120 of them being registered members (although some of these may have been ‘multis’, a ‘multiple account’ registered to the same person as an existing member). The 25 award recipients that are not registered members of the Oddworld Forums range in nature from memes, emojis, events, celebrities, fictional characters, groups, brands and other media, as well as family members of registered Forum posters.

Although votes can be split between nominees, awards are not split between winners, as all nominees who receive equal highest number of votes in any category receive the award in full. This is also true of all individuals who win the ‘Best Couple’ award, even when it goes to multiple couples, although if the same winner is in two winning couples, they still receive the award only once that year.

Most Awards

Ten members have won more than 10 awards in total.

Most Consistent Awards

Wil is the only member to have won the same award, ‘Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge’, for all 12 years the category was live. The next greatest such consistency amongst winners is to have received the same award for 6 non-consecutive years or 5 consecutive years.

Winner Category Wins Consecutively
Wil Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge 12
OANST Funniest Poster 6
Nate Best Staff Member 6
OANST Most Accomplished Troll 5
Abbey Oddworld Forums Mascot 4
Alcar Oddworld Forums Mascot 4
Nate Most Dedicated Member 4
Nate Best Advice Giver 4
Nepsotic Most Changed Member 4
Splat Best Writer 4
Varrok Best Couple (albeit always with a different partner) 4
Wolfpac Best Thread Creator 4
Xavier Most Respected Poster 4
Xavier Most Dedicated Member 4

Most Years

Having won ‘Member with the Greatest Oddworld Knowledge’ for 12 years, Wil is the member who has won awards in the highest number of Forums Awards, although seven other members have been winners in at least seven Awards.

Most Awards in a Year

The most awards won by a single member in one year is ten, which was accomplished by Nepsotic in the 13th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards, the year he was responsible for running the Awards. The same year featured several members winning higher numbers of awards than in any previous year, including Vlam, Alcar and Varrok winning 7 awards each. It should be noted that the 13th Awards featured 49 award categories, much higher than in any other year. The year with the second highest number of categories was the 12th Annual Oddworld Forums Poster Awards, which had 30 categories.

# Member Awards won Categories that year
2nd Wil 4 22
3rd Alcar 4 23
6th Hobo 5 23
7th Bullet Magnet 4 29
8th Nate 4 28
8th Disgruntled Intern 4 28
9th OANST 4 28
10th Wil 5 29
10th Nepsotic 4 29
11th MA 4 29
11th Nepsotic 4 29
12th Nate 4 30
12th OANST 4 30
12th Varrok 4 30
13th Nepsotic 10 49
13th Alcar 7 49
13th Varrok 7 49
13th Vlam 7 49
13th Xorlidyr 6 49
13th MA 6 49
13th RoryF 5 49
13th Xavier 4 49

Most Categories

The member to have won awards in the greatest number of different categories throughout the history of the Awards is Alcar, who has won at least one award in 16 different categories, although a number of members have come close to this amount.

Appendices


References

  1. Wolfpac (). ‘The 2nd Annual Oddworld Forum Poster Awards... Need A BIT of help’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  2. oddguy (). Post 3 in ‘The 2nd Annual Oddworld Forum Poster Awards... Need A BIT of help’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  3. Wired (). ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  4. a b Killy (). Post 18 in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  5. Bullet Magnet (). Post 71 in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  6. hobo (). Post 24 in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  7. a b GrigtheSlig (). Post 7 in ‘The 2nd Annual Oddworld Forum Poster Awards... Need A BIT of help’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  8. Kimon (). Post 46 in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  9. Mac Sirloin (). Post 14 in ‘Insert your opinions here (OWF awards)’. Off-Topic Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  10. Nepsotic (). Post 12 in ‘An Opportunity for OWF's Rebirth’. Forum Suggestions & Help. Oddworld Forums.
  11. kjjcarpenter (). Post 11 in ‘An Opportunity for OWF's Rebirth’. Forum Suggestions & Help. Oddworld Forums.