Defender Awards 2015

[sauron]

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's that time again - (actually, a bit past time, but we had a few hitches along the way)







The Defender Awards, 2015 edition!



Nominations will be accepted on the FRA forums, s7.zetaboards.com/FRA/forum/3036387/



Voting will be via the usual hodgepodge of methods, with details on voting given in the Contest area. As usual, votes will be accepted via NS, FRA forum, and various other defender organizational forums.



On the 18th of March, 2015 - nominations will open in the following Categories:



The Ananke Award - for best spotter of invasions

The Anarchotopia Award - for the organization best at PREVENTING invasions

The Sir Lans Award - for the person most dedicate to update missions

The Operation of the Year

The Best Newcomer(s) Award - two awards, for organization and individual

The Best Defender Mentor Award - new category this year, for which I expect much competition.

The Worst Invasion Award - from the Defender perspective

The Blackbird Award - for the "best" Invader group

The Worst Invader Group Award

The Best Defender Quote

The Meltdown of the Year Award

The Can't We All Just Get Along Award - fro promotion of defender solidarity

The Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedication to Defending

The Defender of the Year Award



Nominations will remain open for 2 weeks. A nomination must be seconded and need not be accepted.

After a short time to confirm nominations and post the ballots, voting will then be open for two weeks, after which results shall be announced. We therefore expect the awards ceremony to be during the third week of April, 2015.





Wibblefeet, Arch-Chancellor of the Founderless Regions Alliance

[sauron]

Nominations are now closed - LET THE VOTING BEGIN!

The lists of nominees can be found HERE

SPOILER: Click to show

{Nomination List}A list of confirmed Nominations for the awards.


The Ananke Award

Ravania
Benevolent Thomas
Land Filled with People


The Anarchotopia Award

Fort Triumph Marshal Service
Lazarene Liberation Army
Rejected Realms Army
TaiMil
Renegade Islands Army Special Forces
Founderless Regions Alliance


The Sir Lans Award

Ravania
Escanaba
Land Filled with People
13 Court Guard Squads
Magthere
Dyr Nasad
Benevolent Thomas
Tangaroan Islands


The Operation of the Year

Anne Frank
Australia (refound)
St Abbaddon

The Best Newcomer(s) Award

Acronius
Deadeye Jack
Myroria

Fort Triumph Marshal Service


The Best Defender Mentor Award

Xoriet
Severisen
Shizensky
Ravania
Improving Wordiness
Frattastan
Karputsk
Benevolent Thomas


The Worst Invasion Award

Anarchy
Soviet Union
Atheist Empire
Texas
Canada
The Mountains to the East
Ixnay
American Continent
Eastern Europe


The Blackbird Award

United Imperial Armed Forces
The Black Riders
The Black Hawks
Poll Raiders
The Skeleton Army
North Pacific Army

The Worst Invader Group Award

The Eternal Knights
Association of Imperialism
The Black Riders
Doom Squad


The Best Defender Quote

"Convicting Raiders"

Despite not being a violation of sight rules radeing IS arguably illegal. I first herd of NS on jury duty. We had a case of (what I now know as) classic TBR radeing. Knowing it was not forbidden by sight rules, we convicted on Assault 2 and Menacing 2: 54 months in prison and 10 years probation (sentences to be served congruently). After having seen it in person, it is even more clear this was the right outcome.

"Lightbulb"

UIAF and friends have begun to pull out of Eastern Europe. That's 53 raiders who just became free.

Maybe they have to change a lightbulb.

"Fratt says How High?"

[18:01] <Alyekra> I'll try and make it
[18:06] <Tangaroa> I'll jump
[18:06] <Mahaj> i should be able to
[18:07] == frattastan [*************] has joined #udl
[18:07] == mode/#udl [+v frattastan] by ChanServ
[18:08] <Tangaroa> fratt'll jump
[18:08] <Ravania> fratt always jumps
[18:09] <frattastan> Link region and nation to endorse.

The Meltdown of the Year Award

Cormac
The Eternal Knights
The Osiris-Lazarus War
Osiris, generally


The Can't We All Just Get Along Award

Eluvatar
Dyr Nasad
Severisen
Xoriet
Defender Unity
Defender Solidarity


The Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedication to Defending

Frattastan
Unibot
Improving Wordiness
Shizensky
Eluvatar
Drop Your Pants
Dyr Nasad
Wopruthien

The Defender of the Year Award

Dyr Nasad
Benevolent Thomas
Land Filled With People

To vote, please send *all your votes in one Private Message or Telegram* (include your main nation name in the message) to ONE of the following duplicates will be deleted:

On the FRA Forums: The Ballot Collector account, monitored by Wopruthien, our VC/Admin in charge of such things.
On the Texas forums: Wopruthien
On the 10KI forums: Gruffydd - Wopruthien's account
On the UDL Forums: - yep, still Wop.
On Nationstates Defender Awards 2015

Voting will Close ********************** 22:00 GMT Friday 17th April 2015.


Wibblefeet, Arch-Chancellor of the Founderless Regions Alliance

[sauron]

Cos I like you guys so much and check here regularly anyway. I'll accept votes here as well if you just send me a PM.