The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #341-380

[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 listed is your favorite. Bolding the number of the comic (Like this) helps it stand out.

Voting will last until Wednesday, January 13 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

The prophecy mentioned in our winner last week, #333, :durkon:The Ephemerality of Memory (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0333.html), gets fulfilled in 3,2,1....
(although he seems much less happy about it now :smallfrown:)




.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0341 - 0380


342 Dangling the Bait (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0342.html)
343 Served with a Side Order of Whoop-Ass (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0343.html)
346 Swoop, There It Is (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0346.html)
351 Pop Quiz, Hotshot (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0351.html)
356 Knight Takes Pawn (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0356.html)
361 Framing the Picture (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0361.html)
362 Grand Theft Identity (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0362.html)
373 Caged (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0373.html)
376 All Too Easy (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0376.html)
378 He Didn't Even Have to Say Please (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0378.html)

[Bird]

Changing my mind--373 for the moderately escapable forcecage.

[Euclidodese]

Hmmm.... None of these leap off the screen to me... I think I'll have to go for 373. It has a Pokeball in it, and MitD being cute, and the roaches being awesome.

[Bulldog Psion]

I'll vote for #376 for the unusual sight of Redcloak and Xykon sharing a laugh. "You should have seen the look on your skull" indeed.

[Pyrous]

#376 - All Too Easy

Reasons:

Xykon's Moderately-Escapable Forcecage

:redcloak: Can I just say that asking our friend in the darkness to guard her was a masterstroke?

:xykon: "Won't some of the hobgoblins die?" Priceless.

[dmc91356]

I agree with Bulldog Psion - 376.

[nogall]

Thog helped, and nogall voted. 361.

[Killer Angel]

361.

Probably one of the most successful moments in Nale's Convoluted Plans.

[Bluepaw]

#362. Let the verbal game of cat and mouse commence!

[Emanick]

373: Caged for the Pokeball, mostly. I was lying awake in bed the other night thinking about what a brilliant joke that is.

[Jasdoif]

361 esng xr gwttikn, twksor im dppiwmn ia Bdosr'g dqsgixs "gnit ohgnsmhme ni riwkgsoa gtsdc aik imps dmj OIIC qbsks H'x GBIINHME!".

361 gets my support, purely on account of Haley's awesome "stop listening to yourself speak for once and LOOK where I'm SHOOTING!".

[Gift Jeraff]

#351. Elan saying hooray always made me chuckle.

[Mordae]

#378 for the pinnacle one of the pinnacles of Nale's hubris. Considerably smarter than Xykon...

[Jaxzan Proditor]

None of these stand out to me for once. I'll think I'll go for #362!

[137beth]

373: Caged for the moderately escapable forecage.

[Emanick]

#378 for the pinnacle one of the pinnacles of Nale's hubris. Considerably smarter than Xykon...

In fairness, he probably is. He's also probably less wise, though.

[ti'esar]

None of these particularly stand out to me, but I'll vote for 376 for a couple of funny lines and the introduction (I think?) of Redcloak's bit with the 1000 GP telescope, which was always funnier to me than it really should have been.


In fairness, he probably is. He's also probably less wise, though.

I think Xykon's INT is quite likely higher than Nale's. He's just colossally lazy and unmotivated to act on it.

[Laurana]

Most definitely #361.

Brilliant plan by Nale and a great final panel, plus "Thog lift with knees, not back" :smallbiggrin:
Also "Welcome to puberty", the jokes about Julia and Roy being self-centered, "Thog helped"...
Truly brilliant strip.

[LotusWyvern]

361 for Nale's evil plan actually working.

[ChillerInstinct]

I don't even want to know how #361 didn't get any love last time. Aside from the whole Malack thing, this might actually be Nale's finest moment.

[Jasdoif]

I don't even want to know how #361 didn't get any love last time.In case someone else does want to know :smalltongue: It had a particularly strong competitor:


:elan: 367 Innocent Man (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0367.html) is the winner this week. It now moves on to the Best of the Hundred tournament.

Full Results are as follows

........THE STICK AWARDS II: 0361 - 0370



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





361

0

0.00





362

0

0.00





363

1

4.00





364

1

4.00





365

2

8.00





366

1

4.00





367

13

52.00





368

1

4.00





369

5

20.00





370

1

4.00

[Mike Havran]

#351. Nale, you jerky jerk.

[Vargtass]

376 All too easy wins my vote, closely followed by 346 Swoop, there it is.

[ChristianSt]

That look on his skull is certainly priceless: 376 - All Too Easy

[Sylian]

Some of these are actually really good! I suppose they got 0 votes due to harsh competition. Anyway, #373 gets my vote. Miko is quite good at twisting the facts to fit her pre-conceived notions.

[obaryb]

None of these particularly stand out to me, but I'll vote for 376 for a couple of funny lines and the introduction (I think?) of Redcloak's bit with the 1000 GP telescope, which was always funnier to me than it really should have been.


I concur completely.

[littlebum2002]

Ugh. My vote for 373 Isn't enough to propel it past our winner this week, :xykon: :redcloak: #376 All Too Easy (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0376.html)
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

#'s 342, 343, 346 and 356 all go on to the ultra brick awards! Ouch!

Full Results are as follows

........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0341-0380



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





342

0

0%





343

0

0%





346

0

0%





351

2

8.7%





356

0

0%





361

6

26.1%





362

2

8.7%





373

5

21.7%





376

7

30.4%





378

1

4.3%





Please join us for the next round of voting!