I'll take on the tradition started by Nitroxium for a few years and continued by aquarius last year.
Basically this is a competition to pick the best user of the year.
What should you take in mind for this? EVERYTHING! From how good they are at playing the game, to how much you like them personally, and everything else you can think of.
In this thread you will post your nominations. They can be as many as you want, and you can also nominate yourself.
Every nominated user will be taken in mind. And I will add users that weren't nominated but I feel like they deserve to be in the competition.
This competition is supposed to be about current players, or at least players that added a lot to the site in 2016. People who haven't played much or at all since 2015 shouldn't be nominated.
This competition is also supposed to be a Sandbox thing. So users that mainly play in other lobbies will not be taken in mind.
I will need a certain specific amount of players, so there is a chance that not everyone nominated will be in the final competition, but I will try to add the big majority, and I will ask people who they think are the less deserving of being in the competition out of the ones in doubt.
There will be a total of 256 players with groups of 4 each.
The 2 of each group that pass to the next round will be passed on to the next round and from there on it will be a regular bracket tourney, made in Challonge.
But I'll tell you more about that later.
For now, drop your nominations. They can be either posted here or pm'd to me.
Also if someone does NOT want to be in this, you can also let me know either in private or here, and I will nullify your nominations.
Nominations will go up till either December 8th or December 10th.
From there on, the group stage will last around 5 days, and every other round will last around 2 days.
btw the 268 are without counting people that dropped out (ill post the list of drop outs later maybe) and the people i didnt add because I straight out knew weren't mostly sandbox people
There are a total of 268 unique entries. Which means I'll need to cut off 12 people to make it to 256.
I picked the 20 people I thought were the less deserving of this, wheter it was because of inactivity during 2016 or just didnt add much to the site (I ran the list through someone and they agreed)
Now, there are SOME big names there. But take in mind most of them have been inactive for the majority of 2016.
So you can vote, the 12 LESS voted people will be cut off from the competition, the other 8 will continue to groups phase.
in a few minutes ill return with a poll that will run for a few hours (idk if like 2-3 hours or until tomorrow afternoon) and then we'll start the groups phase.
Since we are already over the number of people plus ill need a few extra rounds, i will be closing the nominations round on Sunday.
That same day ill open a vote between some of who i think are the less deserving of being in the tourney (aka mostly inactive people) and the less voted ones will be cut off the competition until we have exactly 256 nominees.
Next Tueday we will officially begin Groups phase, which will probably be cut in two polls since theyll be too many.
A couple more nominations: theturningRAY, cub, AsanteSanaSqashBnana(because family and a good friend and player), Donut, Rorschachh, Nynite(idk if she counts though), smallnote, PlutonianLigon, Vimos(for being the perfect mix of salty and crazy), and finally SupBros.