The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #501-530

[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 Thursday February 25 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, we found out how much more evil Belkar could have been when :roy: 489 Keepin' the Little Man Down (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0489.html) won the brick tournament!


.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0501 - 0530


502 And I-I-I-I Will Always Love You (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0502.html)
506 Flanking Crush (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0506.html)
510 Killer View (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0510.html)
512 They've Had Time to Train, Too (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0512.html)
513 Security Deposit (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0513.html)
516 Turning Azurite, I Think I'm Turning Azurite, I Really Think So (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0516.html)
519 Nightmare on Blue Street (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0519.html)
522 We're Doomed If She Finds the Map Key (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0522.html)
528 The Ghost Screamer (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0528.html)
529 The Summons (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0529.html)

[nogall]

Yes, I'm voting for 506. The gods help us all.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I'll go with the Wights in #516.

[Bird]

I like the D&D map gag in 522, but I'll go for 516, in which a legend was shod.

[Euclidodese]

522. Prime, grade-A Belkster.

[Markozeta]

Since these comprise the strips from 481-500 (20 strips) 501-530 (30 strips), that means that literally half one-third of the strips from these two weeks received no votes! - Fixed that for you.

Anyways, 510 - Epic Inside.

[Pyrous]

529 - The Summons

HOW DARE YOU DISTURB MY SLUMBER?!?

[ChillerInstinct]

I've got some good news, and some good news #512. The good news is, your joke became part of my arsenal of quips when I first discovered you. The other good news is that the deed is done so I don't need to torture this reference any further.

[ti'esar]

Man, I really want to vote for 516 and the rise of Boot-Wight after that "legend is shod" post. But I can't let the eyepatch punchline in 502 go to the Ultra-Brick Awards, when I still think it's hilarious today.

[137beth]

I'll go with 529 for the way Celia reacts.

[Belksworth]

116 for the shoe joke.

[DaggerPen]

512, definitely. The reveal always got me - it's so delightfully clever. Villains or no, there's nothing quite like completely screwing over a high level PC with backup with a 0th level spell.

[Gift Jeraff]

#510 is funny and I've always liked that last panel.

[Yendor]

522.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f228/dcorbett42/wight_zpse0486c8d.png Maybe they polymorphed into boxes, Mistress?

Oh, and now that we have 1024 strips, it's clearly time for an epic, ten-round, single-elimination battle to the death. There can be only one!

[Emanick]

Ugh, this is so difficult. I can't remember ever voting for a batch of similarly equal strips.

I'm going to go with 506: Flanking Crush, because it's probably "objectively" the best, even though I kinda like the Azure City arc more. I guess that makes me Lawful.

[obaryb]

#516 made me feel funny inside.

[Laurana]

I like 506 because it has Therkla in it and I totally love her, I like 529 for the slumber disturbance and especially Not even lightning?

My pick has to be #522 though. First rate Belkster and a nice wight joke.

[littlebum2002]

- Fixed that for you.


Thanks! I had that tidbit of information left from last week!

[Killer Angel]

512.
Never underestimate the power of dancing light.
(I so love smart villains)

[Laurana]

I believe we've got another two ultra-bricks here.

[littlebum2002]

I only missed a few days this time! I'm also making an executive decision that the vote for 116 was really a vote for 516. And in solidarity, I will also vote for "116"

:belkar: #516 Turning Azurite, I Think I'm Turning Azurite, I Really Think So (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0516.html) is our winner this week

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

#s 513, 519 and 528 go on to the ultra brick awards.

........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0501-0530



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





502

1

5.6%





506

2

11.1%




510

2

11.1%




512

3

16.7%







513

0

0%





516

5

27.8%





519

0

0%





522

3

16.7%





528

0

0%





529

2

11.1%






Please join us for the next round of voting!