The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #271- #310

[littlebum2002]

About 2 years ago, a great forumite named Porthos created an OOTS voting contest (based on a much shorter lived, but equally fantastic, previous version) which had forum goers vote on the best OOTS strips of all time. It was an impressive contest which has gone on for over 2 years (and only ended, or went on hiatus, due to running out of strips) and will undoubtedly be remembered in this forum as one of the most well-run ongoing threads on here.

This is not that contest. This is a shameless mockery of that contest.



Welcome to The Brick Awards, the Best of the Worst Tournament! :smallsmile:

The Stick Awards were handed out to the best strips of all time as chosen by our fellow Playgrounders. However, when voting for the Stick awards, some strips felt left out, abused, unloved. Whether they simply were a weak strip, or a decent strip surrounded by amazing strips, for whatever reason some strips just didn't get any votes. :smallfrown:

So this contest is designed to give those strips the morale boost they need and deserve! I am collecting all the strips which received zero votes in the Stick awards and presenting them in groups of ten (Or, at least close to ten, since I don't want to cut off in the middle of a group of strips). We will then vote as to which is our favorite of the worst strips so we can finally decide which the best worst strip is!

(And let's be honest, even the worst OOTS strips are still pretty good and deserve our appreciation!)


To vote in this thread, simply state which comic of the ten nine listed is your favorite. Bolding the number of the comic (Like this) helps it stand out.

Voting for this week will close on Friday, December 15 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, we learned webcomics have to grow up sometime when :haley: #242 Chekov's Law Realized (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0242.html) was our winner.




.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0271 - 0310


279 No Soup for You (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0279.html)
282 Closing Arguments (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0282.html)
287 Paladins Make Good Tour Guides (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0287.html)
296 Boons (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0296.html)
299 A Calling Missed (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0299.html)
303 Phrenology Today (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0303.html)
305 The Epistle of Durkon (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0305.html)
308 Sword Envy (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0308.html)
310 Advanced Dates & Dinners (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0310.html)

[Bird]

I suppose Celia's-giant-speech-on-alignment-that-I-didn't-really-want-to-read-through-again-but-did-for-purposes-of-this-contest deserves a vote. 282

[Mordae]

287. I seem to be voting for Elan a lot!

[Emanick]

282: Closing Arguments gets my vote. It's much deeper than the any of the others, and that extra thought automatically gives it an edge over its relatively run-of-the-mill peers.

Also, can I ask why the number of strips being voted on keeps changing? Did I miss something? I'm super curious now.

[LotusWyvern]

305 for current plot semi relevance!

[Euclidodese]

I'll go with 299 for it's high levels of darkness-dwelling monster related shenanigans.

[Vargtass]

I'll go with 282 for the preview of the outlook of actual beings of Law and Good, thoung the cute banter of 310 came in a close second.

[TinyMushroom]

I know I've quoted 310 quite a bit, so I guess that's the one it'll be :smallbiggrin:

[nogall]

282, for being a (far-too-brief-for-V's-taste) classic!

[Syldar]

279 for a cool chase scene and Belkar's cooking help. 282 was a close second, though.

[ChillerInstinct]

Lots of good ones here,
but I think I'm going to place a vote for one that, while not quite my favourite of the bunch (my personal favourite here is 310, although the one I'm voting for DID come close), probably won't get any other votes and doesn't deserve a trip to the Ultra Brick.
For a really nice snark from Celia, a hilarious gag with The Lawyers, and "Come to Azure City, you'll be found innocent-- eventually!", my vote goes with 287.

EDIT: And somehow I missed that 287 had already received a vote... goes to show how badly I need caffeine in the morning. Okay, 310 it is then.

[Laurana]

I don't like much any of these.

The one I like slightly better is #308

[obaryb]

I find 305 marginally better than others.

[declinator]

310 for me. I like where this argument is going.

[Killer Angel]

282, for the effort Rich did put in it.

[Sylian]

305, nice Durkon moment.

[ChristianSt]

Some really fun ones here. My vote goes to 303 - Phrenology Today with 305 being a close second.

[Sir_Norbert]

#282 - Back when this was the most recent strip, a friend linked it because it was relevant to a conversation about our current game, and that's how I discovered OOTS.

But I'm not just voting for it because it's the first strip I saw. I'm voting for it because it was that good that it made me want to give reading OOTS from the beginning a try. This kind of meta-level discussion of how a game system relates to the way we view the world fascinates me, and it's something I had never seen done for a D&D world before.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I'll pick #305.

[Gift Jeraff]

#308 Penis Envy

[dmc91356]

A "meh" bunch. I'll pick 287.

[Bulldog Psion]

This is another group of good comics that I'm surprised got zero votes the first time through.

I'll go for 279 -- Belkar offering advice about the pepper is an interesting note on his culinary skills, but the starlight chase along the battlements is the real highlight here. If it were done in the modern art style, it would be downright picturesque.

310 was a close second, though. Celia was actually a nice person before she transformed into a gigantic didactic jerk.

[137beth]

287 for me.

[littlebum2002]

Due to inclement weather, I am unable to get to a computer and will post the results tomorrow

[littlebum2002]

Unfortunately, my vote for #305 won't be enough to propel it past

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h87/osiris32/celiasmiley.png Closing Arguments (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0282.html), our winner this week!

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

(Only #296 goes on to the ultra-brick awards!)

Full Results are as follows

........THE STICK AWARDS II: 0191-0230



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





279

2

8.7%





282

6

26.1%





287

3

13.0%





296

0

0%





299

1

4.3%





303

1

4.3%





305

5

21.7%





308

2

8.7%





310

3

13.0%





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