Planetcricket Awards 2008 - Day 4
The 2008 PlanetCricket Awards in association with Codemasters gathers pace as we reach day four of the results. Today we bring you a bumper six more awards.
There are for the Best Administrator, Best Global Moderator, Best Moderator, Best Cricket Game Download Thread, Best Cricket Game Patch and Best Cricket Game
The Best Administrator Award goes to the Admin who has contributed very actively to the running, upkeep and maintenance of the site. As well as this Admin also help in the moderation of the forums, and assist Staff as and when necessary. The final votes were as follows
- barmyarmy -80.9%
- aussie1st - 14.9%
- zimrahil - 3.2%
So for the second year running, Colin deservedly wins Best Admin with an overwhelming victory. This comes as no surprise as he is so active on the visible stuff the members see such as being instrumental in setting up vbookie and vcasino etc, but he is also so active behind the scenes as well, with things such as domain renewals, decision making and sorting out a multitude of issues that comes to his attention
On a personal note, I would like to thank the 3 members who voted for me, and when the annual staff reshuffle takes place your efforts will be rewarded
The Global Moderator Award goes to the Globie who............well basically copy what I said for Best Admin and paste it here as exactly the same thing applies. These were the final standings:
- whitehornmatt - 64.1%
- nightprowler10 - 23.9%
- Burma's Finest - 8.7%
So Matt wins the award with an overwhelming majority. Again this is thoroughly deserved for his tireless efforts the past 12 months. As mentioned previously he is responsible for all the skins currently available for you to choose from, and in addition he is a very active admin who does a lot of php work (modifying the site look and feel etc) as well as being instrumental also with setting up & implementing many new site features and custom hacks.
Our last staff award today is for the best moderator. This goes to the mod who is very active and moderates the forums sensibly, making informed decisions and handling situations tactfully and with discretion. It is a thankless task having to deal with many instances of spamming, trolling and flaming etc but without our mods the site wouldn't be able to function at the high level it currently does. Only one can win though as the results were as follows:
- aus5892 - 21.9%
- Sureshot - 18.8%
- stevie - 14.6%
So congratulations to Dean on winning a closely run contest. He has been such an active mod the past 12 months, moderating many forums efficiently and without fuss. He is also very vocal in the staff forums on a variety of topics, helping make the admin's job that much easier. He is also an active poster on the forums with his stories, cricsim and running vbookie to boot
Our fourth award today is for Best Cricket Game Download Thread.
- Whitehornmatt's Overlays - 39.1%
- Black Magic's C07 Downloads - 29.7%
- Prakastic Creations - 12.5%
Congratulations to Matt for winning his second award of the day. His thread was the only one nominated in both this year's and last year's awards, and the persistence at making downloads for Cricket 07 has paid off.
Our fifth award today is for Best Cricket Game Patch
- IPL Super Patch - Black Magic - 42.6%
- Punk's Kit Thread - Punk Sk8r - 22.1%
- Auto Roster Stats (Cricinfo) Updater - harrypotter_fan - 13.2%
Well done to Black Magic on a well deserved and convincing win. His IPL patch has been one of the most popular patches released at PlanetCricket, cashing in on the huge interest in the IPL and doing a very good job of implementing it for Cricket 07.
Our final award today is for Best Cricket Game. The arcade side of things has generally been thin on the ground of late and the ones on the market have been deemed of poor quality by most at PC. These are up against the management type games which generally have been far better received. So who will triumph, arcade over sim? :
- EA Sports Cricket 07 - 51.3%
- International Cricket Captain III & EA Sports Cricket 05 - 13.8% [tie]
- Cricket Coach 2007 - 11.3%
So EA Cricket 07 wins the title of best cricket game on the planet. Despite its many shortcomings, it easily holds off the competition, mainly because of its patchability over the likes of BLIC and thanks to the many modders at PC that have contributed to extending it shelf life
The BLIC series was no where to be seen which perhaps says a lot about how high expectations were and how lowly the game was received. Its lack of modding ability greatly affected its chances here.
So that concludes a marathon results session, and tomorrow you can look forward to receiving the results of Best Cricket Story Thread, Best Non-Cricket Story Thread, Best Sig/Artwork Thread, Best News Contributor & Best News Team Article
Remember the results of the PC Awards can be discussed in
this thread.
zimrahil added 20 Minutes and 20 Seconds later...
Finally, Colin has been in contact with me and asked I post his following message regarding his Awards win:
Thank you to everyone who voted although I always feel that this is a very difficult category for the members to vote on. By the very nature of a forum the admins have different roles, some more public than others. I know that without the whole admin team it wouldn't be possible to keep the forum running properly; dealing with hosting, with domain renewals, licenses, vb hacks and upgrades. Therefore I'd like to say a really big thank you to all of them for their hard work. Also, seeing as I'm away at present, make sure you keep them all busy!
Thank you again.