Winner atWar Player of the year 2012

I'm not posting a whole nonsens story to make it exciting, everyone will scroll down to view the results first anyway . So, here are the final results:


Talos was candidate because he was one of the first to make a very good map in the new atWar. Talos himself didn't even vote at all and didn't watch the voting topic, too bad others didn't do it for him. But he still got a medal for his map creation, and did some nice work for AW. Great job Talos, and thanks for your work! Talos ended up with 5 votes.


Pulse was qualified for making the first quality map on alpha (based on GoT), bug reporting and nice suggestions. Sadly, he just got 6votes and took 8th place. Pulse himself didn't also vote for himself, feeling he isn't the POTY. One of the voters decided to vote for pulse because of his map. I quote: "He made the Game Of Thrones map, and did a fantastic job with it". Anyway, Pulse currently is promoted to Moderator, also thanks for your work as a player!


The 7 place is for AlexMeza. Although he was candidate because of bug reporting and new idea's, players mainly voted for him because of his great personality. "AlexMeza is the nicest person in AW i know" was a comment from one of the voters. AlexMeza btw, also didn't vote himself as PotY. Thanks for your work Alex!


LDK did get a lot of critisism in the forum. Not only with this election, but also when he was selected as PotM. But the voters seemed not interested in the critics and negative attention and massively voted on LDK. LDK was #1 after the first voting day, and stayed close to this #1 until the last 2 days. Ending with no less then 19votes! His work for AT news (i qoute: "ATN is great!"), his nice personality and his help to other players made a lot of players vote for him. One of the voters said: "AtWar News, scavenger hunts, tournaments, etc. I honestly feel like no other player has put in more effort into improving the atmosphere of AtWar than LDK", which is a great compliment. Other voters stated: "He helped the community more than anyone", "He is very nice and organizing nice tournaments", "Nice guy. Get's along well with me and treats me with respect. Treats everyone with respect", "Helping new players, doing CW reports and then starting up AT and being an all around good guy", "cuz he's da best", "Great leader, great friend, he has a good heart. I'm giving it to LDK with reason". Besides all these great things, also some LDK voters had their own reasons to vote for LDK. I quote: "Cuz he's my favourite british sex slave" and being fan of the same football club was enough for someone else to vote LDK saying "cos he is liverpool fan". Dispite all the critics, LDK ended up in 6th place, and has proven to be a very worthy candidate for this election, a very well known player and a kind person. Thanks for all your work LDK!


Tesla did became candidate for creating great learning video's on YouTube. But by voters he was mostly known as the most skilled player in AW that is also very helpfull. A few quotes from tesla's voters: "He is very good", "He is a good player and always want to help", "He is the best", "A hell of a player!", "Best player i know and helps everyone", "Always helped everyone who was in need of help" and even someone said: "He is just the God of AW" which is saying almost all. One of the voters was absolutely convinced that tesla should be the winner, by posting "HE MUST BE THE WINNER!!!!!". Tesla also didn't vote for himself and finished on 5th place, with no less then 20votes. Thanks for your great help tesla!


"Time and effort put in to create a better atWar" was one of the voters comments. Ezzatam qualified for this election for his great creation of maps, chinese translation and his superb help to other map creators, and it paid of in this voting. Although ezzatam was convinced he should get 1 (or less) votes, he ended up with 22votes on 4th place. A lot of players praised him for his great map creation, which can be seen in the comments of his voters:"He makes great maps", "He dedicate his time to make alot of awesome maps", "Awesome maps; most of his maps are loved by the newbies and by the old players aswell", "He made lots of maps and scenarios", "He deserves it for his hard work with mega scaled he is a great player and never in trouble i respect him" and also someone who didn't vote for ezzatam, still said in his comment: "If it came down to map making, ezzatam is first choice". But also the creating of a chinese translation gave him support, i quote: "I think he deserve the year award for translating the game into chinese!". Thanks for your work ezzatam, i'm sure i'm also speaking on behalf of a lot of players.


Aristosseur did not get player of the month, but couldn't be out of this election as PotY and therefor he got selected as 'extra candidate'. From the start, he was also a likely candidate to win this election. His constant work to improve this game with good idea's, bug fixing and nice game tips and guide's made it no suprise that a lot of players choose to vote from Aristosseur. Interesting detail is also, that most of the other candidates in this election, did not give the vote to themselves, but voted Aristosseur. Some of the comments from his voters: "Aristosseur is the ultimate recorder in bug reports", "Frequent bug reports and new ideas in the forums", "Aristo constantly reports bugs and helps in the forums", "Bug reporting over a long long period. Generally helpful when I first started the game". One of the voters even thought his work is more important then others by stating: "Because 'newspapers' and making maps shouldn't take priority over constant bug reporting and fixing AW" but also: "One of first players here who started to upload AW videos in youtube". Apart from this reasons, some voters also seem to have there own idea's about why Aristosseur should win "He started off that Beatles song in the other thread. That was cool", "Most sexually attractive person on AW". Aristosseur ended at the 3rd place, with 30votes. I can also easely say behalf of a lot of AW players, Thanks Aristosseur for all your work, and the number of votes turned out you did was a excellent 'extra candidate' in this election.


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"Never have I met someone so helpful" is one of the comments on Mathdino! Besides his great job on being the first AW news reporter he also was involved in much things on the forum. In game he seemed to be very liked within the community, which has showed of with this result. I quote: "Mathdino is a very nice and respectable player", "Matdino is kind to all and if you need help and he can help you", "He is extremely fun to be around. He is a universe of knowledge about Atwar and many other things", "Because he's the best", "He's the best. he treats people with diginity", "Because i really like his kind of playing and he is just the best in my opinion". But also Mathdino seemed to get a vote from someone who said: "He is my favorite half-Asian player on Afterwind".
Last but not least Mathdino; you voted the PotY- award voted by admins and mods. The medal has been awarded to you, congratulations!



And the winner is: avatar! Avatar did a lot for AW and is very well known within the AW- community. He was the first player to earn the 'player of the month' award, which was the start of this voting. With creating maps, bug reporting, farming reports, advertising for the game and new idea's he was a 'all-round' candidate and it wasn't a suprise that avatar could be seen as a likely winner of the PotY medal. In the first 2days, avatar just get 3 votes, and it the voting seemed to become a absolute disappointment for avatar. But on the 3rd day the votes started to rise and on last 2 days he took first place. Some of the comments from avatar voters: "The best in 1v1", "Good player, makes good maps, one of the best I've seen", "He is the best" and also "Only candidate really worth voting on". Also Avatar did not even vote for himself as PotY. Thanks for your work avatar! And congratulations of being the winner of this contest, the medal for PotY has been awarded to you!

Here are the total results:


14 Votes have been rejected, as the playername did not existed or the player was voting with a 'alt'. Furthermore there where some thanks to me in the comments of the contest, i appreciated that, very much thanks . Thanks for voting all, congrats to the winners and goodluck next year .

Pretty nice to view the votes now. Congratulations Avatar.


And lol, 190 votes total, but 373 views on the voting page. Nearly two hundred accounts looked at the page and left the page. I am guessing a good 30-40 of those are alternative accounts, but the rest, looks like they couldn't find a proper candidate. Seeing as some of the actual potm candidates don't really seem to be players of the month, but rather community catalysts of the month.





Also you should differentiate the medals on both Avatar's, and Mathdino's accounts. As it is now, they both have "Player of the Year" medals on their accounts but someone will not know that one was voted for by the players, and one voted for by the administrators & staff.


I'm guessing there wasn't many notable votes to bring into your descriptions of each candidate, but good nonetheless.

Congratulations Avatar!

Congratulations to Avatar and Mathdino for winning their awards .

I must say some of the quotations on my part are very strange. "Sex slave" LOL.

And finally, well done and congratulations to Hugosch for organising such a wonderful event to point out those who have helped the community and given them praise. Well done!

Nice one avatar. you were my 2nd choice behind Aristo

also mfw mathdino 2nd

Kirjoittanut tophat, 06.01.2013 at 16:22

Nice one avatar. you were my 2nd choice behind Aristo

also mfw mathdino 2nd

exact same reaction on my part

Congrtz avatar

You all candidates have been great.

also nice texts, i enjoyed reading them


congrats to avatar and mathdino


I am looking forward to the next POTMs

Mathdino!!!
Congratulations on second, though I think you should've been first.

Kirjoittanut VAGlNEER 2.0, 06.01.2013 at 16:23

Kirjoittanut tophat, 06.01.2013 at 16:22

Nice one avatar. you were my 2nd choice behind Aristo

also mfw mathdino 2nd

exact same reaction on my part

Removed some messages.

Refrain from off-topic posting and bashing other players.

Congratulations to the winners and all the candidates! AW wouldn't be the same without you, guys. We have our share of troublemakers, but it's always really heartwarming to have so many great people here. And even though they couldn't participate (apart from Pulse, who is a special case), let's not forget about the mods too, they do the amazing job by helping the community and keeping things in order. Many thanks to Hugosch for organizing this, the whole thing was very well executed. Looking forward to seeing this year's candidates

Congratulations to Avatar, Mathdino and the other canidates.
To the rest: Keep it coming 2013!

Congrats to everyone!

Wow. 2nd place and mod choice feels awesome when you don't expect 4th. Thanks to my clanmates (from EC and Syndicate), best friends, moderators, admins, and all the random rank 5s and 6s who voted for me! The comments are really touching [<3]. Also thanks to the guys at atWar Times Network, especially LDK.

And congrats to avatar! You definitely deserve to be in the top! Don't hate on avatar, guys, he's been a huge help to the game and the community, inviting players, reporting bugs, making maps, and being a generally good guy. I'm not surprised he shot up to the top, that's when all his friends got on.

Also congrats to Aristo. I was expecting you to get both awards, but meh. Good guy, OP levels of bug reporting, and you know your math. Well done getting 3rd.

I agree with Desu in that avatar and I should be differentiated, as I did not get the award from the whole community.

Kirjoittanut Desu, 06.01.2013 at 16:18

Also you should differentiate the medals on both Avatar's, and Mathdino's accounts. As it is now, they both have "Player of the Year" medals on their accounts but someone will not know that one was voted for by the players, and one voted for by the administrators & staff.


I'm guessing there wasn't many notable votes to bring into your descriptions of each candidate, but good nonetheless.

I did made a difference text on the trophy, but somehow its not showed. I will check and fix that though

And most players didn't made a comment at the voting, but its more then shown here (also some nonsens stuff). I was planning on posting all the comments, but i'm not sure if players want it to be anonymous. Maybe i will read trough them once, make them anonymous and publish them if there is interest for it.

Kirjoittanut Hugosch, 06.01.2013 at 17:10

And most players didn't made a comment at the voting, but its more then shown here (also some nonsens stuff). I was planning on posting all the comments, but i'm not sure if players want it to be anonymous. Maybe i will read trough them once, make them anonymous and publish them if there is interest for it.

I'd be interested in seeing all the comments. I'm sure lots of them are pretty funny. But yeah, they should probably remain anonymous. Lol'd at WinterAnomaly's comment, btw.

Congratulations to everyone!

Thanks to all who vote .And for me all canditates are winners.
I like this game and my friends here

Spoilers mathdino was asking for votes in global/pr x--d

grats to Avatar though, good job.

On the contrary, I was asking for votes for LDK. Also asking people to vote in general; voting was pretty slow early on. Also never asked people to vote for me in PR, not sure who told you I did. Most of the time I'd contact a friend to ask about something else and they responded with [pr] XXX: i voted for u btw. and I felt kinda awkward, lol.

Congratulations to every candidate and Hugosch for organizing it, but a special congratulation to Avatar and Mathdino, you deserved it

Congrats!

You guys are awesome.

Amok and Ivan, you forgot to update the front page.

Lol avatar first, that is terrible.

Kirjoittanut Fruit, 06.01.2013 at 18:17

Spoilers mathdino was asking for votes in global/pr x--d
grats to Avatar though, good job.

I don't want to ruin Avatar's night either but,

*Ahem Ahem*

Spoilers mathdino avatar was asking for votes in /pr x--d
grats to avatar & mathdino though, good job.

All comments from the voters can be downloaded here. I made it anonymous, so all nicknames are removed and if its pretty clear who posted them, comments are removed too.

Congratulations to Mathdino and Avatar and Aristo for being in the top 3. You are all my friends and I fully respect the placements so I think you shouldn't mind the haters.
As for myself, 4th is very respectable especially beating Talos and Pulse to top map-maker; since those who know me have an idea of my sub-par playing skill. :| Thank you all who voted me, and I shall continue making awesome maps for all to play!

PS: Notice how the votes split into the 3 tiers? 0-10% 10-15% and 15%+ Strange...

Can someone please tell me the point of this? Although it doesn't really matter because Avatar won, and he is clearly the sexiest aftwerwind character with the recent removal of the great and powerful NateBaller.

Kirjoittanut Guest, 07.01.2013 at 01:31

Can someone please tell me the point of this? Although it doesn't really matter because Avatar won, and he is clearly the sexiest aftwerwind character with the recent removal of the great and powerful NateBaller.

Hey Nate! How is the ban?

The point is to have something fun at the end of the year and recognize people who have done good for the community.