Post subject: NES TASer of the Year Poll - Winner announced!
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The votes are over and we have a winner: Lord Tom the NES TASer of 2009. Final vote results: Happy Lee 23 Lord Tom 26 ---- We will now have a run off vote between the top 2 candidates: Lord Tom and HappyLee! Congrats to both of them. The poll will last for 6 days. Initial vote results: adelikat 4 Aglar 5 HappyLee 20 Lord Tom 15 Phil 4 Randil 8 ---- The nomination process is over. Due to the number of nominations we will do a poll for 7 days with everybody's nomination. Then we will do a run off vote for the top 2. Now go vote! ---- Nominate the author(s) you think most deserve the award of best TASer of 2009 for NES games. Nominations will be 7 days, after which this will be turned into a poll with the nominated authors. --- adelikat [1383] FDS Eggerland (FDS) by adelikat in 36:58.98 [1345] NES Contra (JPN) "pacifist" by adelikat in 09:41.36 [1337] NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun (JPN) by adelikat, Randil, arukAdo, DarkKobold in 19:49.12 [1323] NES Transformers - Convoy no Nazo (JPN) by adelikat in 04:20.39 [1279] NES Double Dragon II - The Revenge (USA) by adelikat in 08:40.13 [1331] NES Super Mario Bros (JPN PRG0) "warpless" by adelikat, klmz, & andrewg in 18:44.48 Aglar [1254] NES M.C. Kids (USA) by Aglar in 18:15.97 [1265] NES Power Blade (USA) by Aglar in 16:25.63 [1267] NES Duck Tales (USA) by Aglar in 07:06.02 [1284] NES Gimmick! (JPN) by Aglar in 06:08.73 [1388] NES Donkey Kong Jr. (JPN/USA) by Aglar, Aqfaq, Ferret Warlord in 01:12.81 HappyLee [1365] FDS Super Mario Bros (FDS) "-3 stage ending" by HappyLee in 02:44.61 [1360] FDS Super Mario Bros 2 (FDS) by HappyLee in 08:06.96 [1332] NES Super Mario Bros (JPN/USA) "walkathon" by HappyLee in 06:47.2 [1243] NES Super Mario Bros (JPN/USA) "sidestroller" by HappyLee in 06:51.03 [1336] NES Extra Mario Bros (JPN/USA) by HappyLee in 19:24.68 [1349] NES Super Mario Bros (JPN/USA PRG0) "warpless" by HappyLee in 18:41.7 Lord Tom [1320] NES Metroid (USA PRG0) "100%" by Lord Tom in 33:25.7 [1286] NES Super Mario Bros 3 (JPN/USA PRG0) by Lord Tom & Mitjitsu in 10:26.42 [1348] NES Excitebike (JPN/USA) by Lord Tom in 05:29.44 Phil [1352] NES Donkey Kong (JPN/USA) by Phil in 01:08.67 [1358] NES Kung Fu (USA) by Phil in 03:41.14 [1373] NES Goonies (JPN) by Phil in 02:31.38 [1396] NES Bionic Commando (USA) by Phil in 13:45.26 Randil [1426] NES Pizza Pop! (JPN) by Randil in 09:34.29 [1406] NES Kid Icarus (USA/Europe) by Randil in 22:17.38 [1372] NES Little Nemo - The Dream Master (USA) by Randil in 22:06.95 [1337] NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun (JPN) by adelikat, Randil, arukAdo, DarkKobold in 19:49.12 [1325] NES Gremlins 2 (USA) by Randil in 07:00.07 [1260] NES Deja Vu (USA) by Randil in 10:16.98
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Aglar, Lord Tom, Phil.
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Let me add HappyLee.
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I guess if I posted Randil for his NES work on TASer of the year I ought to nominate him here as well.
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Me think adelikat is missing from this list, me want, he probably made less than last years, but theres 4 or 5 apparently, that include dd2 and a nerdy games ;)
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This is a tough one. I think it comes down to HappyLee or Lord Tom for me. HappyLee is amazing but I give Lord Tom more points for having more than one game on the list. But both are very strong. I'll hold off voting for now.
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(I should point out that In NES TASer, HappyLee has a movie he obsoleted (walkathon), and Aglar does not have listed a movie of his which was obsoleted: 1316M - NES Donkey Kong (JPN/USA) by Aglar in 01:08.97 ) I will give my vote to HappyLee for relentlessly destroying nearly every NES Mario run on the site. Almost everyone in this category produced improvements to existing runs, if someone had produced multiple interesting runs of new games I probably would have voted for them, but I think HappyLee wins the 'best NES run improvements' award
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I think I'm going to have to give my vote on this one to Aglar, for producing entertaining runs of overlooked games.
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HappyLee may have only done Mario, but the man has done Mario proud! So many updates all year long on a series I figured wouldn't get much out of it. Fresh and full of goodness everytime. :) Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
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HappyLee made Mario Moonwalk. I've Moonwalked all the way to voting for HappyLee.
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I vote Lord Tom. Happy Lee found some new interesting tricks and produced many movies, but only for one game engine (essentially).
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Lord Tom, due to the difficulty and polish of TASes he produced, only one of which having the initials "SMB"
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Post subject: I have something to say...
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Let me introduce myself first, please. Thank you. Hi, I'm HappyLee, a 16-year-old Chinese student. I love to be a TASer, and I want my movies to be perfect. TASVideos is the best place I'd like to visit, but I found it hard to communicate with you guys well, sorry for that. I tried really hard at school to study English, but I learnt nothing but how to deal with exams. That's why I speak little here, but inside my mind, I have lots to say. I'm a good student, though. As a good student, I haven't played lots of games. In fact, I haven't heard of most of the games. All I like are games such like: Super Mario Bros, Super Mario World, Mega Man X4, and Metal Slug 3, X. I can play these games very well, and I love to challenge myself, so I learnt how to TAS by myself, and enjoy myself with good movies. Because Mega Man and Metal Slug are hard to TAS, and I only get 1 day in a week to use the computer, I have only done few SMB runs. Joining TASVideos changed my life, after that, I worked harder and harder on my movies, and kept finding amazing new tricks. There are lots of great TASers here, they have lots of choices of games to make. As for me, I think I'm only good at making SMB movies, because other movies are perfect enough to me. And also, I am trying to TAS Metal Slug 3 for my first non-SMB movie. I was really surprised when I saw I was on the NES TASer of the Year Poll, and I felt really touched when I knew many friends liked me. These are good enough for me, whatever I will or won't be the NES TASer of the Year, I will always be HappyLee. To all of my friends at TASVideos, watch my show in 2010! I will not let you down! Thank you VERY much!
Recent projects: SMB warpless TAS (2018), SMB warpless walkathon (2019), SMB something never done before (2019), Extra Mario Bros. (best ending) (2020).
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HappyLee wrote:
I tried really hard at school to study English, but I learnt nothing but how to deal with exams.
This sounds completely wrong. I have seen your first posts on TASVideos, and compared to those, your current level of English is really good. I'd even go as far as to say it's on par with many native speakers here. You have made amazing progress even if it doesn't look like that from your own standpoint. :) (That being said, I decided to vote for Aglar because of his consistently good and creative output combined with unexpected game choices.)
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moozooh wrote:
HappyLee wrote:
I tried really hard at school to study English, but I learnt nothing but how to deal with exams.
This sounds completely wrong. I have seen your first posts on TASVideos, and compared to those, your current level of English is really good. I'd even go as far as to say it's on par with many native speakers here. You have made amazing progress even if it doesn't look like that from your own standpoint. :)
I agree completely. I dare even say you actually speak better English than I do! Edit:
<erokky> Was "then" intentional? <Fluffygon> No <Fluffygon> I really am that bad at English xD
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Flygon wrote:
I dare even say you actually speak better English than I do!
Speaking and understanding it is much harder than being able to read and write it.
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Mitjitsu wrote:
Flygon wrote:
I dare even say you actually speak better English than I do!
Speaking and understanding it is much harder than being able to read and write it.
I'd imagine it'd be harder to actually write English then to speak it... But let's not derail this thread any further, let is continue discussing our gods NES TASers in relevance to this poll.
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Voted for Lord Tom. He made the least runs, but they where all great, well worked through and different from each other. Aglar was a close second.
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I'd imagine it'd be harder to actually write English then to speak it...
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Almost the same vote as Cpadolf, voted for Aglar with Lord Tom being a close second.
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Bump for final voting time!
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Ok, for the final vote of NES TASer of the year, I had to go with HappyLee. It is a really tough vote as both of these TASer of impressed me greatly. But I know first hand the wrath of HappyLee from having been pwned by him when competing with Super Mario Bros. He's truly a creative TASer. Congrats.
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I went with Lord Tom because no matter what the game is, he still makes it his bitch.
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Don't forget HappyLee did Extra Mario Bros. too! BTW, there's some great hacks here (including EMB): http://www.derok.net/emulation0/supermariobros.html
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I vote for the one whose movie obsoleted my favourite TAS of all time (that received the highest entertainment rating I've ever given).
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