# CIM Award This award will be given to the person voted as The Best Teacher. This is the person who you feel has taught you, or others the most about playing TradeWars. This can be due to playing with or against them, by answering your questions, or information obtained on their web site. ## People Nominated 10 - Guardian: 6 votes, 19 total - Eleqtrizi'T: 3 votes, 3 total - Peacemaker: 3 votes, 0 total ## Others nominated - Adomma: 1 - Cruncher: 1 - Hellcat: 1 - Mirkath: 1 - Stride: 1 - The Founder: 1 - Ultima: 1

This award is to be given for special recogniton by the TradeWars community. This award is to honor someone in the TradeWars community, for their outstanding service to the game. Please give a reason for their nomination when sending in their name for this category. People Nominated: 9 | Candidate | Nominated | Votes | |-----------|-----------|-------| | Cruncher | 6 | 17 | | EleqTrizi't | 6 | 3 | Others nominated: | Name | Votes | |------|-------| | John Pritchett | 4 | | Bad Girl | 3 | | Space Ghost | 2 | | Guardian | 1 | | Hellcat | 1 | | Mana Knight | 1 | | Retaliator | 1 |

Universe Award This award will be given to the Best Internet TradeWars Site. This award is to honor the favorite TradeWars related site on the Internet. This can be due to information, resources, current events, links, available games, looks, or overall content. Sites Nominated: 5 Candidate Nominated Votes ``` Home Sector (Eleq) 10 12 Dragons Elite (Guard) 5 5 TradeWars.Org (Mana K) 5 4 ``` Others nominated: ``` EIS Forum 1 Wolfpack 1 ```

# Rules & Information [](<https://web.archive.org/web/20010713153643/https://home1.gte.net/jack8662/display.htm>) 1) Only one nomination ballot, and one voting ballot will be accepted per person. 2) Your entry must include your Real Name, Game Name, and E-Mail Address. All info given will be kept private, no info will be given out. 3) Web based E-Mail addresses will not be accepted. 4) Each received nomination ballot, and voting ballot will be verified before adding to the totals. 5) Your nomination ballot, or voting ballot can contain any, or all of the listed categories. (Remember Rule #1) 6) Nominations will begin on 03/17/2000, and will close on 03/31/2000. Any nominations received after this time will not be considered. 7) Voting will begin on 04/02/2000, and will close on 04/15/2000. Any ballots recieved after this time will not be considered. 8) The number of voting choices in each category will be based on the amount of nominations received. 9) Nomination totals for the top nominees will be posted during the Voting period. However, the overall totals will not be posted until after the Voting has been completed. 10) The nominee in each category with the most votes will win the award. An "Honorable Mention" will be given in case of an extremely close voting outcome. (See Rule #11 for exceptions) 11) The Hall Of Fame, or Citadel Award, can be awarded to more than one person. This will be determined by the amount of nominations, and votes recieved. 12) A person is eligible to win in more than one category. 13) Ballots can contain up to three (3) Nominations for each category. Any Nomination ballots containing over three nominations in a category, will not have that category counted. Any other valid nominations on the same ballot will be accepted. 14) Ballots can contain only one (1) vote for a nominee, in each category. 15) Any Voting ballots containing more than one vote in a category, will not have that category vote counted. Any other valid votes on the same ballot will counted. 16) Please specify which category you are nominating a person(s) for, or which category they are in when you are voting for them. 17) A person cannot nominate, himself or herself. 18) You can vote for yourself, if you make the Voting ballot. 19) The link to cast your ballots is on the bottom of the left side bar. If you do not wish to use the site links to send in your ballots, the address is: tw_awards@hotmail.com Final results will be posted shortly after 04/15/2000, as soon as the ballots have been verified and counted, and the winners declared. Any and all problems will be decided on by a panel of judges, and will be final.

# Rylach Award This award will be given to the player voted as the best Red (Evil) Player. ## People Nominated: 16 | Candidate | Nominated | Votes | |-------------|-----------|-------| | Peacemaker | 7 | 7 | | Maverick | 5 | 7 | | Adomma | 4 | 11 | | Ripclaw | 4 | 2 | ## Others nominated | Candidate | Nominated | |------------------|-----------| | Jack Box | 3 | | Guardian | 2 | | Space Ghost | 2 | | Eleqtrizi'T | 1 | | Black Slayer | 1 | | Retaliator | 1 | | Shark | 1 | | Rawhead Rex | 1 | | Darkhawk | 1 | | Nazwes Chaiwind | 1 | | Zoobar | 1 | | Shit | 1 |

Stardock Award This award will be given to the person voted as the Most Valuable Player. This is the person who you feel is the most valuable player in TradeWars. This could be due to their knowledge of the game, ability to adapt to any game style of play, ability to adapt to the many game variations or edits, ability to play either alignment extremely efficiently, ability to comprehend the current status of the game, mastery of the available game resources, responses to current game situations as they occur, or just plain total game control and domination. People Nominated: 12 Candidate  Nominated  Votes ``` EleqTrizi'T  5  5 Guardian  4  13 Hellcat  4  4 ``` Others nominated: ``` Adomma  1 Bad Girl  1 Cruncher  1 Hosem  1 JackBox  1 Maverick  1 Shark  1 The Founder  1 Wookie  1 ```

Best TradeWars Helper This award will be given to the Best Helper Program. This award is to honor the favorite Helper that you feel is the best available for playing TradeWars. This is the program you will usually play with and use regularly. Some players have a few helpers that they use, we want you to choose which one is the best. (Note: While Zoc, and a few other programs allow you to write and use powerful scripts, it is still not a helper program, and as such, and will not be accepted in this category.) Programs Nominated: 5 Candidate Nominated Votes ``` Swath 5 7 Tradewars Helper 5 5 TWAR (DOS) 4 10 Others nominated: TWAR [Win] 2 TW_ATS 1 ```

Grimy Award This award will be given to the person voted as The Best Hunter. This is the person who you feel is the best player tracker, or hunter. This can include the ability to find players using the ports status, using The Grimy Trader at stardock, shooting Ether Probes to locate players or blocked sectors, or the ability to find "hidden" bases or planets. People Nominated: 10 Candidate Nominated Votes ``` Hellcat 8 9 Rawhead Rex 7 10 Guardian 6 4 Others nominated: EleqTrizi'T 3 Shark 3 Hosem 2 Rolodex 2 Space Ghost 1 Tinker 1 Zoobar 1 ```

Big Bang This award will be given to the person voted as the Best Game Op. This is the person who you feel is the best TradeWars game operator. This could be due to game settings, different edits to balance the game or make it more challenging, always helpful and listens to the players input, settles any disputes promptly and fairly, puts out that extra effort to help make the game fun, and enjoyable for everyone that plays. People Nominated: 7 Candidate Nominated Votes ``` EleqTrizi'T 12 14 The Founder 4 11 Others nominated: Bad Girl 2 Space Ghost 2 Jackal 1 Targa 1 Timberwolf 1 ```

Cone Of Silence Award This award will be given to the person voted as Most Likely To Make You Turn Off Fed Comm. This is the person who usually causes you to turn off, or makes you want to turn off your Fed Comm channel when they are online. The causes for this are widespread, and we will not go any further into that discussion. (Please do not send any reasons, as well founded as they may be.) People Nominated: 5 Candidate Nominated Votes ``` Epicenter 8 13 Hellcat 8 8 ``` Others nominated: ``` Bad Girl 1 Nazwes Chaiwind 1 Sean 1 ```