I'm sure I don't know everyone who has played this year / how long they've played, but there are some players whose names I often hear/see and they spring into my head. Some players that definitely come to mind:

Crocodile Lundeen - Site Champ ofc. Got a lot of new WR's this year. Maintaining around 1.3 AF, even below at times.
Jonathan Toole - Moved from like the 30's or 40's up to like #16 or so, and still rapidly improving.
Frederick Hutchington - Started out way off, and worked all the way up to #12 or so, just outside the top10.
Lachlan Young - Started this year and has been making steady improvements. Even landed RaR 3/3.
Stacy Needham - Never actually stops PR'ing. Keeps pushing forward, even though he's in the top5. Passed Pierre and Chris this year.
Alan McArthur - Started back again, broke into the top10 and fought off Hutch.
Robert Szabo - Mainly played SC this year, but set several WR's and didn't let any of them go without a (at times, irritating) fight. Worked his way up to like #3 SC on the site charts, and he also got some non SC records as well.

Alan gets my vote, period!

I have a lot of respect for Alan consistency and Lachlan's huge improvements with which he even passed the legendary Tom van Kessel, but Andy has been outstanding this year. Countless WRs, even more improved PRs, and all of this without any competition. Getting that AF down to as low as 1.3, just wow. It's so hard to understand what that actually means, but it suffices to say that he's been incredible.

Also, Chris for 2014 POY.

Nosey wrote on 01/06/14 at 08:24:57:


I used the "other" option because so few people nominated anyone that I felt it needed to be open to people other than just the three (that were mentioned by more than one person). I didn't want to run into "but what about soandso?" despite the fact that only two people (aside from Fenner) even replied to the nominations thread (despite my having left nominations open a week longer than I originally intended). If more people had responded, I could have come up with a more solid poll, but that didn't happen this year.

Meh, Andy. That many WRs can't go unnoticed.

I felt sorry and guilty for not posting a nomination, and I came very close to writing a simple 'I would like to nominate these people, but everyone else already got there before me', but I thought that sounded a bit lame. If you wanted more people to post to get an aggregate feeling, you could've just asked
On the other hand though, nominations are only nominations after all, to just prepare and decide which players should be in the poll in the first place, not actual voting.
Also, apologies for way I wrote my last post, I was a little shocked to see a small poll, and so I suspect my tone was a bit bad as I rushed immediately typing it out without pausing first, so I'm sorry for that

Lastly, obligatory thanks for the mention Etch.

Lol suprised i got nominated, I didn't really do much last year (hopefully that will change, GBA SP otw), thanks anyways.

I'm going with Andy for POY, reasons are obvious

Nosey wrote on 01/12/14 at 05:23:49:


If you asked another question, I missed it (even after going back through the thread). I did ask for nominations -- otherwise it would have been pointless to even start a thread in the first place. I don't think I should have to beg people who regularly check this forum to respond -- if you want to voice your input, you need to do so within the time frame. If you don't respond with nominations, that's your choice. (I'm using a general "you" here, not specifying you in particular.) Either way, posting the thread is asking for nominations. If I didn't want input, I would not open POY decisions to the MKSC community, and I would just pick someone, write a post and call it a year. The nominations thread is intended to be redundant -- that's what tells me who belongs on the final poll.

In terms of why you weren't included on the poll -- when I went back through them, I didn't connect your name on the site with your nickname here, so my apologies there. (That's also part of the reason I left the "other" option -- so if I didn't put enough people on the poll/other people should have been included/etc, there was still an option to vote for those people, because I'm human. It's not an entire lost cause, as that option has been used.) I think it's really too late to go back and redo the poll, but as-is, it should still work.

If I didn't answer your question, feel free to reply.

Holy shit, this was a landslide. Thanks for a great year, everyone!  

Wait, did you just win your third POY in a rown? I almost feel obliged to think that you're actually good at this game. Nah, huge congrats man, once again a well-deserved POY.

TvK wrote on 01/17/14 at 02:02:02:

Isn't this the first time a player wins 3 POY awards for the same MK?