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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

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With the year of 2014 coming to an end, I’m thinking of hosting a forum event similar to the Oscar Awards to honor the outstanding achievements and contributions of talented individuals and groups. If a lot of people are interested in this type of event, I will make plan and rally people to participate. Here are my ideas:

We will nominate worthy names of each categories, vote our best 5 (up to 5 votes) and finally vote for the winner of each categories. You can find here and here the comprehensive list of nominees running for these categories:

1. Best Solo Player of the Year:
- Criteria: most creative, skilled and inspiring solo player
- Qualification number: 1
- Prize: A choice of gem store items worth up to 800 gems.

2. Best Speedrun Group of the Year
- Criteria: the dream team of the speed run world: creative, skilled, efficient, consistent
- Qualification number: Up to 6
- Prize: A choice of fuzzy hat or any skins worth up to 300 gems (must be the same choice for 6 – lel)

3. Best Speedrun World Record [group-type, restricted rule set]
- Criteria: the pioneer of its time; not only fastest, most creative but also set the precedence for the meta.
- Qualification number: 5
- Prize: 2 packs of mini set 3 + 100 gold (in total) – sponsored by Wethospu

4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year
- Criteria: Helpfulness and representative of the community
- Qualification: 1
- Prize: 2 x Communal Boost + 50 gold – sponsored by rfdarko

5. Best Visual Guide
- Criteria: Most clear, helpful and well-edited video/visual guide
- Qualification: 1
- Prize: A choice of gem store items worth up to 800 gems.

6. Best Written Guide
- Criteria: Most clear, helpful and well-edited written guide
- Qualification: 1
- Prize: A choice of gem store items worth up to 800 gems.

7. Community Member of the Year
- Criteria: The Face, Soul and Link of the Dungeon Community
- Qualification: 1
- Prize: A choice of gem store items worth up to 800 gems.

8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year
- Criteria: Make the fashion meta
- Qualification: 1
- Prize: A choice of gem store items worth up to 500 gems.

9. Best Comedy of the Year (it can be anything!)
- Criteria: Become the crowd’s favorite
- Qualification: 1
- Prize: A choice of gem store items worth up to 500 gems.

10. Epic Fail of the Year (In-game only)
- Criteria: Become the worst shame ever (of 2014)
- Qualification: Up to 5 involved
- Prize: One Black Lion Chest Key for each person involved :p

If you are interested in sponsoring the prize of any categories, please let me know!

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- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Posted by: Casmurro.9046

Casmurro.9046

Can we vote on Nemisis for the best necro guides?

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

You mean Best Comedy? XD

Seriously, we need to honor real contributions

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- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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GrimmR.3541

Nice idea, I like this!

toxic since 2012

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Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867

Best drama?

Zelyhn.8069 [rT]
Retired elementalist theorycrafter

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Best drama?

Best Comedy!

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- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Snowball.3497

I like this idea!

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Essence Snow.3194

I thought Lilith quit?

Serenity now~Insanity later

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Element Two.7316

  • Best Solo Player of the Year:
    Colesy

Kekkity kek kek kek

oh and I may as well be productive, could mention metabattle under the guides or something; it’s pretty useful to link to the 45th Reddit post of the day asking what Dungeon builds to run.

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Iris Ng.9845

It doesn’t matter if some in this list quit because they make the most out of year 2014

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- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Sanderinoa.8065

Im totally biased, but I like the idea I suppose. Axias wants to be added to soloers list tho ;__;

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Tom Yzf.5872

  • Best Solo Player of the Year:
    Colesy

Kekkity kek kek kek

oh and I may as well be productive, could mention metabattle under the guides or something; it’s pretty useful to link to the 45th Reddit post of the day asking what Dungeon builds to run.

agreed

kek

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Posted by: maha.7902

maha.7902

people I know =/= best soloists

I have neither the time, patience nor willpower to become a competent soloist.

Serah Mahariel – Death and Taxes

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Posted by: Dub.1273

Dub.1273

1)

I did not really do anything special this year, to be honest.
Neither would I deserve to be listed at this general solo play section, as anything but AC and Arah has always bored me to death.

My vote goes to yanderigokua, both have provided a great variety of content with different difficulty. While goku does stuff as both elementalist and warrior and usually goes for quick times of repeating content, yander generally focuses more on the “get it done” aspect in a very entertaining playstyle. Could just use a few more uploads and some other professions, but you can’t have it all.

2)

None. Sorry, but I can’t really think of one. If I had to vote, it would be between Lupi and SC, but luckily I do not have to.

3)

Not that one. It isn’t a bad record and quite entertaining to watch, but it is not the fastest one and the tactics are identical to this one three months earlier.

Aside that I have participated, I would have nominated either way. I proudly present you this amazing (to it’s time) arah path 3 record.

4)

Gw2dungeons.net, by far. [Noob] surely also did a great job (no idea what the other things are, except for the “dnt” invitational, which was hopefully a joke) but the sheer effort, research and time put into gw2dungeons by Wethospu is unsurpassable.

5)

Nothing of this year. Aside of that, sanderinoa’s and obal’s lupicus tutorial videos are very well done. Also greatly redone by brazil, this year, if you prefer to count that. All mentioned channels have their raison d’être, but I feel like Nike’s and Dekeyz’ Channel could be summed up better in written guides (that exist too). I don’t think I ever did a “guide” video, so I myself fall short too. Frifox is entertaining to watch and has good stuff, but it focused on coe (ugh, [CoE==CM level of boredom]) and generally also better fitted in a written guide asserted with short videos.

6) gw2dungeons.net, although a double nominate, it is just the only feasable option.
Everything on the list is great, but gw2dungeons.net is the only with dungeons as main focus.

7) Iris, Lilith or Yandy, choose one.

8) Iris. Can’t look up the (very first) general discussion thread for the image, though.

9) Tom (Element). xoxoxoxo.

10) Goku, being beaten on lupicus records by 1 second for like 10 times. Although he certainly didn’t fail there. For a real fail, your choice of Jerem’s seems appropriate.

Dub | [rT]
#LoveArrows2013, never forget.

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Purple Miku.7032

I question why Abe isn’t on the list for soloers tbh. Also, Particlar. Both of them were innovative and uploaded some pretty cool stuff… and Particlar was actually the first ele to solo Mai Trin, shortly after Sandy’s first mesmer solo of it.

Mmmmm kinda hard to not have huge bias for something like this. Should just have the categories and then have people manually enter names they think best qualify for title/award of it.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

@RE: Colesy, he wasn’t in because I know him. When he was still active and streaming, he did an exceptional job solo Arah, TA and drawing huge attention. Again, this was during his prime time. But again, if he feels uncomfortable with being nominated, I’ll remove his name.

@Dub: You were the reference name regarding everything Lupi. You were (and are still) great, people keep citing your videos and tactics and I think it is worth mentioning. Also, no one goes as far as doing a full kitten video like Killing Lupi with Dodge only. If nobody likes you, you will be crossed out, ha!

@P. Miku: At this stage, it is TOTALLY OKAY to have bias. We will need to brainstorm as many names as it pleases us. Then based on the popularity, the final number will be total of 5 before the final vote. The key is not to miss anyone who has done an excellent job.

@All: I’ll add every names which I have missed but are suggested here. So don’t be shy about your opinion. Your opinion matters

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- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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maha.7902

When I streamed it stressed my already awful connection even further, and I honestly can’t play around heavy lag and shouldn’t have streamed anyway unless I had gotten myself better internet. Like, I literally can’t even watch other streams or it kills my connection in game too.

So yeah, remove me. I’m not really on the same calibre as anyone else on the list.

Serah Mahariel – Death and Taxes

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Posted by: IvanTheGrey.2941

IvanTheGrey.2941

Solo:
Goku
Group:
DnT (I’m biased though, so…)
Record:
This one
Dungeon Initiative:
[Noob]
Instructional Video:
This one helped SO many people
Text Guide: Obal’s, because it helped me pass my trial
Community Member:
Swiftpaw (Even though I love Lilith too)
Fashionable:
Iris
Comedy:
NoFB’s text cover in the tournament or Sam’s butt plug on livestream
Epic fail:
I’m gonna say our [noob]‘s epic fail at Malrona @ the tournament :’(

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Posted by: Purple Miku.7032

Purple Miku.7032

Best Internet 2014: Dub
Best Thief EU: Sandy
Overall Best Mountain Goating 2014: Twindread
Best GW2-related Video 2014: rT thug lyfe
Most Underrated Soloer: AmbrosialK
Best French Speedrunning Guild: Kr
Most Sadistic Demon to slither out of hell: Varra Skylark
Biggest Fail in Tournaments: rT vs FGS Arah P3

I’m running out of ideas!

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Quin Marino.6384

I second AmbrosialK for most underrated soloer.

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Amicable Pugs.4503

1. Best Soloer:
Miku
Would’ve picked Goku but he doesn’t have a life outside farming RNG so Miku seems less robot-like xD

2. Best Speedrun Group:
SC

3. Best Record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZtFkV2dzrM
(Arah p3 by SC)

4. Dungeon Initiative:
Gw2Dungeons, without doubt the most useful gw2 website out there.

5. Best Visual Guide:
Frifox’s Guide to Mesploit

6. Best Text Guide
Element’s Warrior Guide, since it was the only guide that actually covered dungeons too.

7. Community Member of the Year:
Nike, for his 43433454454521245.565665(344343) guides. No sarcasm intended :P

8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner:
Wethospu obviously.

9. Best Comedy of the Year:
rT in tourney.

10. Epic Fail of the Year:
Every run with Dub.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Hey guys, please give your nomination and vote up to 5 worthy names of each category. I will shortlist the best 5 this weekend Sunday 11:59 pm EST.

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Posted by: AmbrosialK.2653

AmbrosialK.2653

Miku for best soloer imo, he has done MANY great and high quality solos over the past year. I’ve never seen someone literally try to solo EVERY and ANY boss (and not take 500 years to do so). Also the amount of inspiration he’s given to many players to solo dungeons is prodigious.

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Posted by: rfdarko.4639

rfdarko.4639

I’d prefer my name be taken off that list – while I’m flattered that you thought of me, Iris, my videos are no-where near the polish or the skill level of the other people included. It’s something I aspire to surely! But I’m just not there yet. And there are people I watch like Blub, Deathly, and D[Name Censored]y Moa who are much more deserving of a nomination.

If I had to pick a single soloer, it would have to be miku as well. Simply because he not only does such a wide variety of different difficult solos, but he also has given me tons of great advice (managing to do it without saying “you suck!”).

guildless hobo who likes to solo – [x]

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Posted by: Cheezy.2039

Cheezy.2039

1) Sesshi, no doubt
2) SC
3) Sad, that it’s only arah records I’d propose SC’s TA forward, Tobi’s skip was amazing. Out of the given ones, Arah P3 by SC
4) DnT tournament
5) Frifox’s stuff
6) gw2dungeons.net
7) Nike
8) I propose Jerem Jk, no choice here
9) rT’s Thug Lyfe
10) rT vs FGS in Arah p3

Cheezy – Vis Invicta [vC]

The meta is changing at an alarming rate.

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Iris Ng.9845

Ugh, my bad edit. At this stage, please give suggestion of what you think worthy of each category as well

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Wethospu.6437

I haven’t been very active so hard to comment on any of these categories. But nice initiative!

Unfortunately 2012 didn’t have similar contest.

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Posted by: Purple Miku.7032

Purple Miku.7032

It pained me to not be able to see your name on that list Wethospu.

I still occasionally watch your videos because it is just amazing to think how much further ahead of everybody you were at the time… it is remarkable. You’ll always be the best soloer and warrior ever imo!

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Iris Ng.9845

I haven’t been very active so hard to comment on any of these categories. But nice initiative!

Unfortunately 2012 didn’t have similar contest.

Unfortunately, you wouldn’t have had a chance to win Best Fashion back then.

It pained me to not be able to see your name on that list Wethospu.

I still occasionally watch your videos because it is just amazing to think how much further ahead of everybody you were at the time… it is remarkable. You’ll always be the best soloer and warrior ever imo!

I’m sure you know who to vote for :>

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Posted by: Tom Yzf.5872

Tom Yzf.5872

We should have honorable mention “Original Gangster Soloist” – Wethospu

As for the categories, most are already mentioned, so I’ll just cast my vote on the ones where I have an opinion on now:

Best soloist – Sesshi – His solos are the most polished of the list. Even more amazing is that he is able to distinguish himself among the saturated population of accomplished warriors who solo.

Dungeon Initiative of the year – Definitely GW2Dungeons.net – so kitten comprehensive. Probably the most referred to link when anyone has a dungeon question.

Best Guides Visual/Written – has to go to DeK – ele is one of the classes where rotations are more important and imo complicated. She not only does this but demonstrates optimal rotations with every weapon set. Just the work alone puts it ahead of the others by a large margin.

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Posted by: Wethospu.6437

Wethospu.6437

I haven’t been very active so hard to comment on any of these categories. But nice initiative!

Unfortunately 2012 didn’t have similar contest.

Unfortunately, you wouldn’t have had a chance to win Best Fashion back then.

It pained me to not be able to see your name on that list Wethospu.

I still occasionally watch your videos because it is just amazing to think how much further ahead of everybody you were at the time… it is remarkable. You’ll always be the best soloer and warrior ever imo!

I’m sure you know who to vote for :>

With 3 solo videos this year I definitely shouldn’t be on the list.

I would have probably done more if it wasn’t so pain to get to interesting encounters. Like waiting 30 mins to get someone help me on ooze puzzle.

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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Actually, your Manmode Spider Queen video is one of my favorite this year. If everyone agrees that you should be on the list, then you totally deserve it.

“Raids are like fortune cookies. You eat the cookie and then read the paper scraps.”

- doranduck, 2016 on Lore in Raids

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Posted by: ShadowRX.9024

ShadowRX.9024

1.Best soloer :
Abe , even though there is not that many videos ,Abe inspired me to get better and his ele skills are amazing o/ along guardian too.
2.Best speed run team :
I guess you can say I’m biased but No Feedback/ LuPi aka the new qT.
3.Best record :
I would say arah p1 improved coming soon if the game stops lagging QQ but as this is unlikely till Sunday Se P1 by SC #double mesmer FTW
4.DnT tournaments
5. Frifox’s Guide to mesploits
6. Sanderinoa’s Mesmer guide
7. Lilith pls come back QQ
8.Wethospu all the way
9. Brazil’s Condition Guardian build o/
10. Jerem no feedback is the best haha. Also tobi’s WTF in the same video xD

Would like to nominate Se P1 2:58min by SC for the best record o/

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Posted by: Jeremlloyd.6837

Jeremlloyd.6837

1. Best soloer :
My vote goes for Sandy (coz Mesmer), then i’d say Sesshi, Purple Miku and Goku

2. Best speed run team :
Well I’d say SC for being there for almost the entire year (for members of the team, I guess Abe, Tobi, Ghosti and me for sure, and for the fifth, there’s different names coming to my mind, Dennis / Neo / Daniel / Sam / Goku / Ameziz / Casual, so it’s up to you I guess).

3.Best record :
I vote for our Arah P3 coz we really spent a lot of time to get it. But since I like CM I’ll add:
CM P2 because of the innovative tactics there is in that short run,
CM P3 because most of the cm p3 daily speedruns now use the tactics we showed in the past.

4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year
Gw2dungeons for sure even if metabattle is pretty good as well. I’ll also mention the first DnT tournament.

5. Best Visual Guide
Frifox’s Guide to mesploits, followed by Brazil’s countless guides and Nike’s guides

6. Best written guide
gw2dungeons

7. Community Member of the Year
Lilith / Iris / Swiftpaw

8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year
Lilith / Wethospu / Iris

9. Best Comedy of the Year
rT’s Thug Lyfe ofc

10. Epic Fail of the Year
I vote for rT vs FGS arah p3 followed by KING vs Last AC Story and my No Fb fail ^^

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Posted by: Snowball.3497

Snowball.3497

10. I’d add KING vs Last AC Story

Why cant we just forget about that?

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Posted by: GrimmR.3541

GrimmR.3541

1.) Sesshi because I’m biased or Deathly because I know how much he has improved! #donthitmemate
2.) [NoFB] as it was amazing to see them running the tournament.
3.) Dodd’s sub 7min red moa solo. Joke, probably the Arah p3 by [SC].
4.) Tourney
5.) Brazil’s guides
6.) gw2dungeons
7.) Lillith, dlonie or Swifty
8.) deSade
9.) rT’s Thug Lyfe
10.) Jerem’s no feedback!

Also, i nominate Brazil for the beard of the year!

P.S.: If Videogamer Mike would still be around, I am pretty sure he would win all of ’em!

toxic since 2012

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Posted by: Charming Rogue.8071

Charming Rogue.8071

My vote goes to Purple Miku, not only is he a great runner, but also an awesome streamer. Rocking the best tunes I’ve ever heard and always being entertaining with his skilled solo runs. This guy practically lives in Arah. He learned it, he loves it, and he lives it. It’s hard to not think of Miku when you hear the words Arah.

Mad respect bro, hope you win it!

Desolation – EU – [KING] – Immortal Kingdom

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Posted by: FallenSentinel.6439

FallenSentinel.6439

1. Purple Miku, because of idiotic things like complete fractal solos, 30>50.
2. [Club], for actually using Engineers in their records.
3. Honestly, I didn’t feel like voting for our own records so I decided to vote for my favorite dungeon path because nothing else seemed worth voting for :/
4. [KING] for their fractal guides.
5. Brazil for his amazing arah p2 guide in order to try and help an extremely good streamer. Kappa
6. Gw2dungeons.net , yes people it’s .net
7. MagicZipper. nah, i just don’t know anyone to vote for… -shrugs- so.. i guess no votes from me. (unless MagicZipper is totally acceptable. )
8. Dom, coz why has no one voted for him already? o.O"
9. Tom’s Condi Lyfe
10. [KING] #NeverForget

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Posted by: Purple Miku.7032

Purple Miku.7032

I’m not going to vote for the soloing category >.>

2. Best Speedrun Group of the Year:
Overall SC gets it because well… they’re sadly the only ones still doing it :< and they have pumped out loads of the records that literally no one else has done/cared to try. To me their best-executed record was the Arah P3, but I’m partially biased because that’s the dungeon that I do the most of and know how much of a pain certain parts are in it.

3. Best Speedrun World Record [group-type]:
I’m honestly surprised no one remembers this or cared to vote for it! rT restricted Aetherpath 15:48 seriously, at the time this was just awesome. There have been faster runs but at the time this was miles ahead of any other group’s attempt at it. It’s a very distinguished record that I’ll never forget. I guess I’m alone with this vote :P

Besides that, I’d say SC’s Arah P3. I would vote for it, but it wasn’t nearly as much of an impact as the Aetherpath record was at the time. It’s a close call…

4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year:
The first DnT dungeon tournament of course gets it.

5. Best Visual Guide:
To me, [KING]‘s fractal guides gets it because they are visual guides. It’s a close call between these and Brazil’s Lupicus guide (which also was very thorough), but the difference is that [KING] uploaded many visual aids that teach tips/tricks that a ton of people didn’t actually know and show great group tactics for fractal encounters. Lupicus has been worn out to death and there’s been plenty of information out about him for quite some time.

6. Best Written Guide:
Wethospu’s gw2dungeons.net wins this, with Element/Tom’s Warrior Guide coming a close second. I know how much work these two put into their guides, and it’s so awesome how Tom put a section that breaks down literally every dungeon with even visual aids. If this was about an individual class, Tom would win this for sure… but Wethospu’s website has guides that cover everything, so he wins it to me.

7. Community Member of the Year:
Going to go with Nike. Not only did he take the initiative to begin these dungeon tournaments, but he’s iconic for his many build guides and has streamed countless times. He has given a lot to the dungeons community.

8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year:
Lilith of course. She even ran that thread for it!

9. Best Comedy of the Year (it can be anything!):
rT thug lyfe without a doubt, but kitten the other ones he made were incredibly hilarious too. Tom is the #1 comedian.

10. Epic Fail of the Year (In-game only):
The first dungeon tournament’s rT vs FGS on Arah P3 will always be the biggest fail to me lol. It was so awkward and upsetting…

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Posted by: Cheezy.2039

Cheezy.2039

1.) Sesshi because I’m biased or Deathly because I know how much he has improved! #donthitmemate

I don’t think it’s biased to say that this guy is the best soloer. And I am not biased at all

Cheezy – Vis Invicta [vC]

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Posted by: hybrid.5027

hybrid.5027

1. Best soloer of the year is Sesshi IMO with Miku a close second. Sesshi changed the game with the mossman warrior solo.
2. Best speed run group of the year was Snow Crows.
3. best record is Arah p4, if you’ll allow me some bias, they dropped the mic on that one.
4. more bias but I think the second tournament was quite good overall.
5. Abstain
6. Best written guide was gw2dungeons.net, not even close.
7. vix
8. Dom. He set the medium armor human female meta.
9. rT vs FGS arah p3
10. rT vs FGS arah p3

I know who I am, do you know who you are?

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Posted by: AnyForNow.4691

AnyForNow.4691

1. Best Soloer
My vote for best solo player of the year goes to Purple Miku because of high quality solos. Not only did he post videos of his solos but he streamed the entire process of killing the boss from step 1. The fact that he’s from NA and plays on EU and streams with wifi is one hell of a handicap to boot, but he’s also taught me and many others how to do what he’s done tooThe most memorable moment I have from watching his stream was watching him solo level 50 fotm. Not only was this an intense experience but to my knowledge he was the only soloer who did this. Lastly I would like sum it up by saying cuz purple…
2. Best Speed Run
Intricacy [iV] (dungeon + fractal tournaments) cuz oped plz nerf
3. Best Speed Run World Record
Arah p4 200:05-restricted record [DnT]
4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year
For this one hands down ill vote for Gw2dungeons.com the detail and information in this site is outstanding. Helped me along when I was first starting out and still does!
5. [KING] Experienced Fractal Guide they were actually visible and easy to understand.
6. DEKeyz’s [Guide] DPS Elementalist for PvE Helped me a lot didn’t really understand my elementalist’s abilities until I looked at this guide, helped me a lot.
7. Community member of the year
Nike
8. Most Fashionable
Lilith they so fancy
9. Dubble Lagged
so….much….spinning.
10. [Noob] vs. Marolna

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Posted by: dutchiez.7502

dutchiez.7502

1.) Sesshi because I’m biased or Deathly because I know how much he has improved! #donthitmemate

I don’t think it’s biased to say that this guy is the best soloer. And I am not biased at all

Hmm… seems strangely familiar…

Nova [rT]

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Posted by: Aleksandar.1364

Aleksandar.1364

1. Best Solo Player of the Year:

Clearly, Goku since 2012 thx.

2. Best Speedrun Group of the Year

Keep Running [Kr] fastest men alive.

3. Best Speedrun World Record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXl24NYr9Mc

4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year

Tenkaichi Budokai

5. Best Visual Guide

Draglek Warrior build

6. Best Written Guide

Wri.. Wri what ? Sorry, too much affected by autism.

7. Community Member of the Year

Colin Johanson .

8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year

Draglek ? Golden Charr BLING BLING.

9. Best Comedy of the Year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeqDBNgjX4c

10. Epic Fail of the Year

Remember THE FEEDBACK

Draglek, to serve you <3

Member of Keep Running [Kr]

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Posted by: Cheezy.2039

Cheezy.2039

1.) Sesshi because I’m biased or Deathly because I know how much he has improved! #donthitmemate

I don’t think it’s biased to say that this guy is the best soloer. And I am not biased at all

Hmm… seems strangely familiar…

Hm, can you link me yours? I can’t find it it seems

Cheezy – Vis Invicta [vC]

The meta is changing at an alarming rate.

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Posted by: Purple Miku.7032

Purple Miku.7032

1.) Sesshi because I’m biased or Deathly because I know how much he has improved! #donthitmemate

I don’t think it’s biased to say that this guy is the best soloer. And I am not biased at all

Hmm… seems strangely familiar…

Hm, can you link me yours? I can’t find it it seems

Here is Nova’s http://www.twitch.tv/dutchiezz/c/4567358

He was the first to have solod this boss iirc, but Sesshi did it a month later and got a lot better of a time

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Posted by: creepmatic.9435

creepmatic.9435

1. Best Solo Player of the Year
Sesshi, dat EU bro is crazy. Also, I salute Miku.

2. Best Speed Run Group of the Year
SC

3. Best Speedrun World Record
Arah P3 by rT (8:17 restricted) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV0KLL0LpPo, don’t know if this counts but it’s one of my favorite from this year, even if SC took the lead.

4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year
I enjoyed the DnT dungeon tournaments

5. Best Visual Guide
I would say between [KING]‘s, Obal’s and Keyz. From my perspective I would go with Obal as I saw more detail and value in his fractal guides.

6. Best Written Guide
gw2dungeons.net

7. Community Member of the Year

A lot of people shared they’re knowledge on these forums and/or reddit/yt, and it’s much appreciated. To me Nike seemed the most vocal and iconic. So yeah, I vote with Nike.

8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year
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9. Best Comedy of the Year
I will say entertainment, and between Dub’s and Brazil’s channel I will choose this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8j_0XnkP9w #datendgame

10. Epic Fail of the Year
rT vs FGS arah p3 was quite unexpected.

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Posted by: dboylolz.3916

dboylolz.3916

1. Best Solo Player of the Year
Sesshi 1st, Goku on a close 2nd and Miku on 3rd in terms of how many videos they released during this year and the impressiveness of them.
2. Best Speed Run Group of the Year
Completely biased I would say my own, there really aren’t that many to choose from anyways.
3. Best Speedrun World Record
AC Story[rT] or CoF Story[SC], even though they are both mostly boring, I really enjoy split tactics.
4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year
DnT tournaments were nice, both from a viewer’s perspective and as a participant’s.
5. Best Visual Guide
The fractal guides by [KING] were the best in my opinion, all though some of the tactics I wouldn’t agree on.
6. Best Written Guide
Dekeyz’ Elementalist guide for sure, the time she puts into those is just mind boggling.
7. Community Member of the Year
Nike seems to pop up in most reddit and forum threads about PvE, so I would vote for him.
8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year
Definitely Tobi.. I mean Dom.
9. Best Comedy of the Year
A certain video by Tom, don’t think I should link it. But my vote goes to him nevertheless.
10. Epic Fail of the Year
Can’t really think of anything else but the KING wipe in AC or rT wipe in Arah.

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Posted by: Snowball.3497

Snowball.3497

I see a few people linking the [KING] Experienced Fractal Guide to my channel.
I just want to let you know that we have moved them to a youtube guild channel some time ago.

So if you want the most updated guides it would be here instead.

As for my votes,

1. Best Solo Player of the Year
Though my love for ele, I have to say Sesshi followed by Sandy.
2. Best Speed Run Group of the Year
SC without a doubt. 2 mesmer meta?!
3. Best Speedrun World Record
CoF Story[SC], split tactics ftw!
4. Dungeon Initiative of the Year
DnT tournaments were nice, what else than that and Fractal tourny do we have really?
5. Best Visual Guide
KING’s Fractal Guides
6. Best Written Guide
Although this isn’t really my area, I’d say Dekeyz’ Ele guides.
7. Community Member of the Year
Iris!
8. Most Fashionable Dungeon Runner of the Year
#BearHat.
9. Best Comedy of the Year
rT’s thug life or sanderstep
10. Epic Fail of the Year
KING and traps, thats all

Particlar – Desolation – [Hs]
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Posted by: Iris Ng.9845

Iris Ng.9845

Hey Particlar, I would appreciate [KING] members participate in this event as well. Vote or Riot!

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