Post subject: TASer of 2009 Poll - Winner - Lord Tom
adelikat
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The final vote has ended and we have a winner - Lord Tom. Final vote results: Cpadolf - 17 Lord Tom - 20 ---- This was a close vote, with clearly some choices were more liked than others. Due to the number of nominations we will do a poll for 7 days with the top 4. Then we will do a run off vote for the top 2. The results of the first round of votes: adelikat 8 arukAdo 6 cpadolf 9 inichi 4 janus 1 kriole 2 Lord Tom 9 Phil 1 Randil 1 Shinryuu 1 I'll also be handling this poll as adelikat has to recuse himself for being one of the candidates. --Nach ---- 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! The nominees: adelikat 1. 1283 | DS New Super Mario Bros in 26:27.5 2. 1281 | PCE Dragon Egg in 07:36.27 3. 1335 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:23.47 (coauthored with arukAdo and paul_t) 4. 1435 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:21.75 (coauthored with arukAdo) 5. 1431 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 38:26.12 (coauthored with arukAdo) 6. 1337 | NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun in 19:49.12 (coauthored with arukAdo, Randil and DarkKobold) 7. 1345 | NES Contra in 09:41.36 8. 1279 | NES Double Dragon 2 in 08:40.13 9. 1323 | NES Transformers - Convoy no Nazo in 04:20.39 10. 1331 | NES Super Mario Bros in 18:44.48 (coauthored with klmz and andrewg) 11. 1383 | FDS Eggerland in 36:58.98 12. 1369 | GBC Speedy Gonzales - Aztec Adventure in 30:17.5 (coauthored with JXQ) arukAdo 1. 1293 | DS Castlevania - Portrait Of Ruin in 11:40.35 2. 1437 | DS Castlevania - Portrait Of Ruin in 10:14.85 (coauthored with gocha) 3. 1337 | NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun in 19:49.12 (coauthored with adelikat, Randil and DarkKobold) 4. 1313 | Saturn Castlevania - Nocturne In The Moonlight in 06:51.22 5. 1363 | PSX Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night in 19:01.63 (coauthored with pirate_sephiroth) 6. 1289 | PSX Resident Evil 3 - Nemesis in 1:07:25.52 7. 1419 | PSX Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis - The Mercenaries in 18:54.02 8. 1341 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo Of Blood in 23:17.78 9. 1335 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:23.47 (coauthored with adelikat and paul_t) 10. 1435 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:21.75 (coauthored with adelikat) 11. 1431 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 38:26.12 (coauthored with adelikat) 12. 1433 | PCECD Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge in 11:57.73 13. 1432 | PCE Madoo Granzort in 08:46.08 cpadolf 1. 1247 | GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow in 04:38.9 2. 1380 | GBA Metroid Zero Mission in 1:01:08.0 3. 1326 | DS Contra 4 in 22:31.42 (coauthored with zggzdydp) 4. 1299 | SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars in 03:20.38 5. 1366 | SNES Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt in 13:11.05 6. 1270 | SNES Super Metroid in 21:35.57 7. 1259 | SNES Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel in 09:38.85 inichi 1. 1285 | SNES Chrono Trigger in 21:23.98 janus 1. 1377 | SNES Breath of Fire II in 4:55:16.22 2. 1418 | SNES Breath of Fire II in 4:53:48.98 3. 1420 | Genesis Phantasy Star IV in 1:35:58.8 Kriole 1. 1428 | GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow in 28:01.58 2. 1368 | SNES Super Metroid in 38:41.52 (coauthored with Taco) Lord Tom 1. 1348 | NES Excitebike in 05:29.44 2. 1320 | NES Metroid in 33:25.7 3. 1286 | NES Super Mario Bros 3 in 10:26.42 (coauthored with Mitjitsu) 4. 1252 | SNES Lemmings in 1:03:04.45 Phil 1. 1396 | NES Bionic Commando in 13:45.26 2. 1352 | NES Donkey Kong in 01:08.67 3. 1373 | NES Goonies in 02:31.38 4. 1358 | NES Kung Fu in 03:41.14 Randil 1. 1337 | NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun in 19:49.12 (coauthored with adelikat, arukAdo and DarkKobold) 2. 1260 | NES Deja Vu in 10:16.98 3. 1325 | NES Gremlins 2 in 07:00.07 4. 1406 | NES Kid Icarus in 22:17.38 5. 1372 | NES Little Nemo - The Dream Master in 22:06.95 6. 1426 | NES Pizza Pop! in 09:34.29 Shinryuu 1. 1242 | NES Mega Man 2 in 24:33.5 (coauthored with TaoTao, pirohiko and FinalFighter) 2. 1346 | NES Mega Man 2 in 23:54.75 (coauthored with pirohiko and FinalFighter) 3. 1241 | NES Mega Man 6 in 30:46.78 ---- Nominate the author(s) you think most deserve the prestigious award of best TASer of 2009. Nominations will be 7 days, after which this will be turned into a poll with the nominated authors.
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I nominate arukAdo for this award. From his first ever submission to his latest, He has shown us that TASes take serious effort to make.
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inichi, for his chrono trigger wtf
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I add HappyLee for many SMB runs. adelikat for a dozen runs. FractalFusion for several Mega Man X runs. cpadolf for exciting Metroid runs. Lastly, Phil, for taking several runs which were thought to be optimized to the limit, and surpassing them (DK, BC). I think these 5 players provided 80% of my entertainment from TASVideos this year.
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Lord Tom.
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
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I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
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I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
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Lord Tom.
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Kriole.
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omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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inichi, janus, and all who did the Megaman 2 TAS.
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Randil was still knocking frames out of a lot of old NES runs in 2009 (seven of them). I nominate him.
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ArukAdo hit 13 runs of 8 games across ~5 systems, 4 of them Castlevania games. Adelikat hit 12 runs of 10 games across ~4 systems, 1 of them a Castlevania game. Each of them teamed 6 times, mostly with each other ironically. The poll states "Nominate the author(s) you think most deserve the prestigious award of best TASer of 2009." I know this isn't a formalized statement or anything, but it got me to thinking. I'm going to stray from the ordinary thought process a bit. Amidst being a site administrator and implementing rerecording into emulators, adelikat produced a very competitive amount of material. I think if I consider strictly by TAS material arukAdo has a very slight edge. Considering a larger picture, I believe adelikat has made the most significant contribution this year as a TASer to TASing. I think it is worth noting that without adelikat's contributions to emulators this year, arukAdo couldn't have done 9 of his runs. My vote is for adelikat for his contribution of not only a significant, highly competitive amount of runs, but also for his emulator and site contributions to further progress TASing. (It's fine if people don't entirely agree with this criteria.)
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I'd say it falls somewhere between Lord_Tom and Phil. Since they've both improved games which are popular and well optimized, but since I've worked with Lord_Tom, I know the in depth analysis he'll goto in order to get a full understanding of the game, where as I will just do a brute force/random testing approach.
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Voted Lord Tom because I watched and enjoyed all 4 of his movies.
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My vote goes to adelikat for tremendous production both in TASing and emulator development.
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Bump for round 2 vote!
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cpadolf earned my vote with a fairly wide variety of very quality movies.
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Tough call between Adelikat and Cpadolf... they both have quantity and quality and variety, but I think I like cpadolf's game choice just a tiny bit better. Sorry delicatessen :\
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My vote goes to Lord Tom for the sheer amount of ingenuity that every one of his TASes this year has demonstrated. However, it's definitely a tough call between these four in the second round. All four candidates in the second round definitely deserve congratulations.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
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Close call between Lord Tom and cpadolf for me. Lord Tom pwned SMB3 and NES Metroid, which are two of my favorite runs. cpadolf cranked out 2 metoid runs and 2 contra runs, all of which were amazing. For the sheer number of runs, I gotta give the edge to cpadolf.
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Wow, Cpadolf is making quite the come back... I voted for Lord Tom again in the run off, perhaps because he has deserved it for a couple of years now :P. Cp also makes some great runs, but every Tom run I have enjoyed :D
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It's final voting time!
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I vote cpadolf for his wtf awesome and fast-paced Metroid and Castlevania runs
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Final poll has ended and we have a winner: Lord Tom, our TASer of 2009!
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2nd place again, and so close =/ But congratulations to Lord Tom anyway, you did some damn good stuff :)
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Thanks, both to cpadolf and the rest of the community here. I did not expect to be nominated for the overall award this year, much less win, so this was a big surprise.