Post subject: Rookie of 2009 Poll - Winner announced!
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The votes have ended and we have a winner: arukAdo the Rookie of the year for 2009. Final Poll results: arukAdo 23 Kriole 11 ---- We will now have a 6 day final run off poll of the top 2 winners: arukAdo and Kriole. Go vote! initial poll results: arukAdo 20 SDR 3 Ryuto 6 Kriole 7 Sonikkustar 2 NxCy 5 maTO 4 ---- 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: 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 SDR 1. 1342 | Arcade Xmen vs Street Fighter in 11:38.38 2. 1333 | SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in 16:46.58 Ryuto 1. 1307 | GBA Kuru Kuru Kururin in 10:22.08 2. 1315 | GBA Kururin Paradise in 20:35.53 3. 1367 | GB Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru in 1:27:43.3 4. 1403 | GB Little Master in 05:35.37 5. 1414 | GB Minesweeper in 00:29.65 6. 1399 | SGB Tetris Blast in 03:57.98 7. 1416 | SNES Super Gussun Oyoyo in 07:26.33 Kriole 1. 1428 | GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow in 28:01.58 2. 1368 | SNES Super Metroid in 38:41.52 (coauthored with Taco) Sonikkustar 1. 1375 | GB Looney Tunes in 09:28.88 2. 1429 | Genesis Decap Attack in 19:35.88 3. 1278 | Genesis McDonald's Treasureland Adventure in 24:33.63 4. 1411 | SNES The Addams Family in 03:19.35 (coauthored with Kyman) NxCy 1. 1264 | SNES Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest in 1:23:10.88 (coauthored with Comicalflop) 2. 1314 | SNES Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island in 06:08.02 maTO 1. 1404 | Genesis Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 06:43.12 2. 1425 | Genesis Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones in 09:04.58 3. 1379 | Genesis Shadow of the Beast in 11:56.9 4. 1384 | Genesis Shadow of the Beast 2 in 06:33.33 5. 1409 | Genesis The Jungle Book in 08:17.17 ---- Nominate the author(s) you think most deserve the award of best Rookie of 2009. To be eligible for this award, the author must have had their first publication published in the year of 2009. Nominations will be 7 days, after which this will be turned into a poll with the nominated authors.
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My vote is arukAdo. I feel that he pretty much destroyed the whole Castlevania series. :)
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My vote is for SDR, he took some really potentially boring fighting games and made them incredibly exciting to watch. He knows what it means to entertain.
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I 2nd the nomination for arukAdo. He has produced a large quantity of movies over a variety of platforms.
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We are not on votes yet, so ill nominate Ryuto (since i cant self nominate, anyway someone did already), we are basicly both the "top" producer on rookies list this year, 20movies in total combined.
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Do we have a list somewhere of the TASers whose first movies were published this year?
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Its going to be posted, Grunt will work on updating it, be patient :p
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Do we have a list somewhere of the TASers whose first movies were published this year?
Does that qualify them as a rookie? What if they were here since 2005 and submitted a new run every week which never got published, yet some of their ideas got integrated into other people's runs? We have people like Taco and Kriole to think about.
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Here you go: http://tasvideos.org/Sgrunt/RookiesOf2009.html I nominate Kriole; both of the runs he worked on are of top notch quality.
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Ryuto, arukAdo, Kriole (just two movies, but god damn those were professional), maTO (though he's not really a rookie), Sonikkustar.
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I nominate my partner NxCy. He's a great teammate, and he makes highly optimized and highly entertaining movies. DKC2 102%, Yoshi's Island warp run, and his WIP for Yoshi Island 100%. He also has a natural talent for the SMW games/hacks.
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I nominate Kriole and arukAdo aswell.
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Voted for Ryuto for making the most movies I watched/enjoyed out of the nominees.
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Dang it, not even on the list! lol... not like I did much anyhow. XD
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Decided to vote Kriole in the end, because I prefer quality over quantity.
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I voted arukAdo. For rookie I value quantity & variety the most. I find it impressive when a new TASer can quickly adapt to so many platforms & emulators so quickly. I also find arukAdo's work to be of solid quality.
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SDR for submiting Xmen vs Street Fighter
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Giving it to Sonikkustar, because I see the most variety on his resume.
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ArukAdo hit 13 runs of 8 games across ~5 systems, 4 of them Castlevania games. Along with working on various teams with various individuals. While I am not really a fan of Castlevania, I commend the amount of material produced. Voting arukAdo. (don't let it get to your head.)
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Bump for final vote. I voted for arukAdo, for the same reasons I did in the initial vote.
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The votes are over. Congratulations to our rookie of the year arukAdo!
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A million thanks to everyone who voted for me !
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A million thanks to everyone who voted for me !
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