The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #481-500

[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 Friday, February 12 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, Skullsy decided "Enough is Enough", and demanded that #469 Crossbones (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0469.html) gets the recognition it deserves!


.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0481 - 0500


481 Cutting the Cord (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0481.html)
482 Leaving Azure City (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0482.html)
486 Next on "As the Plane Turns"... (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0486.html)
487 Their Concierge Service is Heavenly (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0487.html)
489 Keepin' the Little Man Down (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html)
493 Led Zeppelin Lied to Us All (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0493.html)
494 DMILF (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0494.html)
495 (Eu)gene Therapy (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0495.html)
497 The Grand Fighter (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0497.html)
499 No Time to Lose (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0499.html)


Since these comprise the strips from 481-500 (20 strips), that means that literally half of the strips from these two weeks received no votes!

[Emanick]

Tough pick. I really liked Horace Greenhilt's first appearance, but I think I'm going to have to vote for 489: Keepin' the Little Man Down. The kilonazis joke is just too good.

[dmc91356]

Yeah, I have to agree with that. 489.

[declinator]

I suppose I'm on time this time... I want to keep 486 from the Ultrabricks, just for the "Wait a minute, I had a 22" gag. I can so relate to this.

[Bird]

One more for 489--it was pretty intriguing to hear Roy's justifications for Belkar's presence in the party.

[Gift Jeraff]

#493 for non-traditional panel layout.

[Aeliren]

It's a tough choice between two pages, but ultimately I'm gonna have to go with 489.

My other choice would have been 486.

[Euclidodese]

I don't think there's really anything particularly noteworthy in these individual strips...
I'll go for 494. I guess. It'll do.

[Killer Angel]

Lot of good stuff here, especially 82 and 89.
Need time to think...

[Sylian]

I liked the deva interviews a lot, so 489 gets my vote.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

Yeah, I think I'll go with #489 as well.

[Belksworth]

I'll have to go with 489.

[ti'esar]

I'm going to cast a vote for 497 entirely because I've always found the evil adventuring party inexplicably cool.

[Emanick]

I'm going to cast a vote for 497 entirely because I've always found the evil adventuring party inexplicably cool.

I have, too! I didn't mention them specifically in my first post, but they as well as Horace almost swung me. :smallbiggrin:

[Markozeta]

Re-reading my copy of DStP and realizing that all of these had to come together to make death "permanent" - it's tough but I'll use my vote to save 487 from the ultra brick. Mainly because "Frequent Dying Miles", The revolving Door, and Eugene getting reprimanded for portraying a being of law and good.

[nogall]

I was gonna vote for 487, but then I noticed no one voted for 482. No ultra-brick for this one, with the great "Plus, don't forget that she does have Belkar with her" joke...

[Killer Angel]

489 is probably going to win (and with reasons).
So, I'll go for 482, because i like a Paladin that it's not lawful stupid, and can handle moral dilemmas without falling.

[Laurana]

Yeah, Horace was cool as was the evil adventuring party, loved the 22 joke but my favorite has to be 489. Kilonazis and Sauron's affair with Cruella too

[Emperordaniel]

497 The Grand Fighter. Go Evil Adventuring Party! Or don't.

[obaryb]

I suppose I'm on time this time... I want to keep 486 from the Ultrabricks, just for the "Wait a minute, I had a 22" gag. I can so relate to this.

486 - I have exactly the same feeling.

[Pyrous]

497 The Grand Fighter. Let's earn some XP!

[ChillerInstinct]

Going to spare #481 from the Ultra Brick, since Elan's little speech at the end has always been pretty charming.

[Bulldog Psion]

I'll go for #494, just because I find the idea that Roy suspects it's not his mother because she could have been scrying on them to find out about his early memories :smallbiggrin: ... a fun detail for a D&D geek, I guess.

[martianmister]

499..............

[Laurana]

This should've ended already a few days ago. I hope littlebum is fine.

[Emanick]

This should've ended already a few days ago. I hope littlebum is fine.

Maybe he's just a littlebummed out about his favorite strip not getting any votes, and is sulking in a corner somewhere.

[littlebum2002]

I'm fine, guys, thanks for your concern. I get busy at work sometimes (and can't update on the weekends) so it takes me a few days to get the results done. But once I do, I make sure the next round is still ending seven days away.


ANYWAY:

(I'm voting for #499, I've always found it interesting)

:roy: #489 Keepin' the Little Man Down (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html) is our winner this week

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

#495 goes on to the ultra brick awards.

Full Results, as well as next week's round, will be posted first thing tomorrow morning. (Sorry for the delay!)

[Euclidodese]

You could say... That you're a little behind.

*Dons sunglasses as CSI Miami theme plays.*

[littlebum2002]

Full Results!

........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0481-0500



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





481

1

4.5%





482

2

9.1%




486

2

9.1%




487

1

4.5%







489

7

31.8%





493

1

4.5%





494

2

9.1%





495

0

0%





497

3

13.6%





499

3

13.6%






Please join us for the next round of voting!

[137beth]

I'm a bit surprised that 495 qualified for the hyper-brick awards. Then again, it was one I liked less than the rest of the arc, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.