The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #551-570

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

Voting will last until Wednesday March 16 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week was a great example of why these awards were created. http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i294/trytoguess/O-Chul.png #541 He's a Gamblin'...Thing (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0516.html) was a great strip and only missed out in receiving votes due to the overwhelming strength of strips it competed against, and now it received its due!


.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0551 - 0570


551 Slow and Steady, My Ass! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0551.html)
553 Diplomacy is a Beach (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0553.html)
562 Heroic Fantasy (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html)
563 Air Mail (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0563.html)
564 It's What's For Dinner (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0564.html)
566 One for the FAQ (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0566.html)
569 Justice Can Be a Messy Business (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0569.html)


Note: Yes, there are only seven strips this week. This is mainly because the contest of #571-580- had a whopping six strips with no votes all on its own!

[Bird]

Tempted by Belkar's projectile vomiting, but I'll take 563. Every step on the road to Vaarsuvius' mind unraveling is pretty compelling, but this installment has that extra dollop of irony.

[Sylian]

#562 because of Therkla.

[Doug Lampert]

#551 I love the tortoise.

[Markozeta]

563 - It's just to funny.

EDIT: I've loved loved loved Roy's Jokes in 566. I've repeated his "Speed is listed as Hell NO" more than once. It still cracks me up. But between that and the setup of the birds - the birds always win.

[Killer Angel]

562, hands down.

[ChillerInstinct]

Yeah, got to concur with #562. I wasn't a big fan of Therkla but the way that she twists her wording there is pretty stellar. Also, I'm a sucker for the old 60's Batman show and any references thereof.

[dmc91356]

Pretty weak batch. I'll go with 563.

[Lvl 2 Expert]

563

And because that's too short to be a legal post: I so want to see the stink awards, where all the comics who remain voteless yet again compete for the title of worst oots page ever.

[ti'esar]

562, for Hinjoker.

[nogall]

553, because banjo. And the use of the word "nadir".

[Liquor Box]

I vote for 566.

[Euclidodese]

I cast my wise and mighty vote for 564.

[Laurana]

Even though there aren't many strips in this bunch, there are a lot of good ones (although none is truly brilliant).

I like 562 for the Batman/Bard Boy cut out, 564 for the Polly wants a cracker joke, and I find Celia's retribution for being an annoying nag very satisfying in 569.

My pick is #563 'cause after all the set up the final panel is really funny.

[obaryb]

#562 I do this all the time.

[Emanick]

Heh, I'd forgotten just how funny 566: One for the FAQ is. I'm a sucker for deliberately bad jokes.

[Dushara]

562, mostly for Therkla's fantasy and "I study at the feet of the master", but I also like how Kubota is consulting a D&D manual.

[declinator]

562 - for all the reasons already given, and for the fact that I could have protected it from being entered into this fray, if I hadn't succumbed to the lure of 567 or 568 (I really was tempted...).

[137beth]

569, though 551 is a close second.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I vote for #562.

[Pyrous]

#569

"Sucks to be you, I guess"

[littlebum2002]

Of course I'm not able to do the results right now, but this will mark the end of the voting and I'll start the next round tomorrow morning

[Markozeta]

Of course I'm not able to do the results right now, but this will mark the end of the voting and I'll start the next round tomorrow morning

But what's your vote? :smallbiggrin:

[littlebum2002]

I think I'll go with 563.

[martianmister]

I'll go with 562.

[littlebum2002]

Wow, not one strip earned an ultra-brick!


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/redxiv/therkla.gif #562 Heroic Fantasy (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html) is our winner this week

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!


........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0551-0570



Comic Number
Votes Received
Vote Percentage





551

1

4.8%





553

1

4.8%




562

8

38.1%




563

6

28.6%







564

1

4.8%





566

2

9.5%





569

2

9.5%





Please join us for the next round of voting!