Apolyton Hall of Fame: December 2003

[DarkCloud]

If anyone wants to vote in the hall, please do it in the following thread: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=104051

Thank you and good luck!

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What is it?
The Apolyton Hall of Fame (HoF) is a list of people who contributed a lot to the community here on Apolyton. For example: Xin Yu was inducted in the HoF for his incredible strategy and MP contributions to the Civ2 section, yin26 for his fantastic work on 'The List' with suggestions for Civ3. Every member of the Hall of Fame has made great contributions to Apolyton and the Civilization community - these people and their accomplishments must be remembered by us all!

If you don't recognize many names you probably haven't been here very long and/or hardly ever post outside this forum - in that case this HoF might be a good opportunity to learn something about them. That is why this Hall of Fame was created: to remember and learn.

Periodically, we hold a vote for the Apolytoners who we think contribute the most to Apolyton, the ones who make Apolyton what it is. The winners shall be inducted in the Hall of Fame and their names will live forever in the annals of APOLYTON!

History
The idea for the Hall of Fame was born in late 2000 as an outgrowth of the old Apolyton Army and Apolytoner of the Season Contests, seeking to honor the people of Apolyton in a more meaningful and structured way.

The first edition was held in the Off Topic in December 2000 over a period of 3 days and is currently archived. The first election saw Markos and Dan, the owners and administrators of this site, and the first 10 posters inducted.

Since then, the HoF vote has been held roughly 4 times a year with 11-14 total members being elected every year. Up until August 2002, the vote was held only in the Off Topic forum - from that time on it has been posted in other sections (first in Civ3, later also in SMAC, CtP1-MP, CtP2, etc).

We'll be electing 6 people this time... voting will end on the 28th!
Let's try to make this the election wiht the MOST PARTICIPATION EVER!

[Ecthy]

1. why another thread (apart from bleeding obvious +1 reasons)?

2. why 6 people?

[Ecthy]

3. why has Zopperoni never had any votes?

[DarkCloud]

(Why post two in a row?)
aside from the fact that you're spamming.
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2.) Because that's tradition and becuase 12 people on average are elected each year (although due to posthumous inductions we will have 15 elected this year)

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
1. why another thread (apart from bleeding obvious +1 reasons)?

So that everyone can see it, even if (s)he never visit OT or Civ3 demogame fora or the other few fora where DarkCloud posted it.

-Martin

[DarkCloud]

So that everyone can see it, even if (s)he never visit OT or Civ3 demogame fora or the other few fora where DarkCloud posted it.

Indeed.

[DarkCloud]

This historic December 2003 Apolyton Hall of Fame vote saw the following new records:
*198 Voters placing 590 votes
*57 New Entrants onto the hall's voting rolls.
*154 Apolytoners receiving votes
*A record 138 votes received for the Top Vote-getter (oedo).
*A record 88 Votes in one session (oedo). [In essence, he was within 22 votes of being elected solely on votes from this round)
* New secondary runner-up award goes to Boris Godunov who managed 51 votes in one round.

*The following were elected:

1. oedo- (50) 88---138
2. Boris Godunov – (77) 51---128
3. ixnay- (78) 42---120
4. Reismark- (79) 26--105
5. UnOrthOdOx- (67) 36---103
6. DanS- (80) 20---101

The Last vote (May 2003 Saw)
*159 Voters placing 418 votes
*150 Apolytoners receiving votes
*110 Total Votes for the Top Vote-Receiver (Trip)
*A then-record 66 Votes in one session for Trip.
*A then-2nd ever most 43 Votes in one session (Zylka)

*The following were elected:

1. Trip- (45) 66---110
2. DinoDoc- (68) 24---92
3. Paul- (50) 39---89
4. Zylka- (38) 43---81


Last Year's December (2002) Vote saw
*73 Voters placing 140 votes
*59 Votes for the Top Vote-Receiver (Slowwhand)
*A then-record one-round 33 votes in one session (orange)
*A then-2nd ever most 24 votes in one session (Asher)

*The following were elected:
1 Slowwhand- ------------(37) 22----59
2 Frogger [Krazy Horse]- ------- (37) 17----54
3 Asher- ------(28) 24---52


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In essence, the hall of fame has exploded in the last year with participation more than doubling!

This participation has come about gradually as the Hall's polling places have expanded across the site.

This expansion was partially due to the amazingly useful "My Threads" feature and suggestions by certain posters.

Hopefully this trend will continue and next vote will see somewhere around 230-250 voters placing votes!

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Profiles of the Newly Elected
Reismark Founder of the Hodadian Award Central, gifting awards to the best Civ-Sites on the Net and the best Civ II scenarios around! He also runs the Apolyton Fantasy Football Challenge and several other contests in the OT.

oedo Discoverer of the “oedo years,” the discovery “that the period of disorder in Civ 2 for revolutions follows a pattern, and by knowing this pattern, you know when to revolt to eliminate the period of anarchy” oedo is well known and respected in the Civ II-Strategy community for this discovery that taught those of us who “thought we knew civ” that there was more to it than we “thought we knew.”

ixnay Humorous poster; Participant in the Civ II Democracy Game, he’s a real whiz with photoshop and graphics; and happens to be the Rise of Nation’s content editor... and is an Apolyton Staff member.

Boris Godunov Friendly OT debater. Much loved.

UnOrthOdOx For his work on the "Jungle Gazette" and other Democracy game publications... as well as his work on the democracy games themselves.

DanS OT Poster and debater. Economist.

[Ecthy]

your profiles used to bve more elaborate.

[DarkCloud]

Not really. I think you're confusing them with the apolyton 100. These are just meant to be short tid-bits of info. Thanks for the concern

And if you have something to add, then please do. I think I pretty much covered everyone fairly well except Boris and DanS