The 2014 Rubys! (2014 Forum Awards)

[rybaby]

Best finals performance: Collin at US nationals
best avatar: mine, of course (Ranzha you must like it)
Least deserving WR: whoever had the first skewb single
biggest controversy: Lucas Etter 7.52 NAR
Mee Chay award: Walker Welch
Brest award: Brest
biggest fanboy: Sammy (for Anthony)
Most deserving WR: Maskow 3BLD single
Most surprising WR: Louis Cormier Mega or Kaleta OH
Best farewell: Rowe Hessler (US nats 3rd place)
Best Beard: Is this really up for grabs? (Ryan Deline)
Coolest Skewber: Ranzha, me, Phillip. No one else.
Best practicer: Sumeet Agarwal
Most deserving of a ban: Stefan (I honestly can't stand this guy)
Biggest noob: CriticalCubing
Best/coolest Cubing event: Phillip Espinoza's marathon
Anti- Vincent Sheu award for best finals performance: Kevin Hays at US nats (check out that J perm)
Coolest statistic: WR close calls (https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?26121-Odd-WCA-stats-Stats-request-Thread/page230). Poor Harris...
Best reaction: All the Polish people for Kaleta's OH WR
Best post: This one: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?48774&p=1004532&viewfull=1#post1004532
Worst Posts: Artic's regarding Alex Lau's 7.52 ER average
Most Old School member: IamWEB (aka WEB4)
Most annoying member: Rami
Worst meme: #yearofthewalker2014
Best trend: Sporcle quizzes. They were pretty fun.
Best Cow: Dr. David J Wing, Ph.D.

 

[donal56]

Most deserving WR: Maskow 3BLD single

I vote for this too, maskow is the best in blindfold

 

[Deleted member 19792]

Worst troll: Sammy

Hey hey HEY HEY! That might be true, but still! I had some good trolls this year!

 

[Ranzha]

Hey hey HEY HEY! That might be true, but still! I had some good trolls this year!

I have a feeling you're in the running for the Mitch Lane Award with Ansuman.

 

[Rubiks560]

Worst thread: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?48720-Drew-Brads-3-49-Pyraminx-Average
Best arguer: Stefan
Best scandal: Chris cheats on JKC with Mariah Mikel
Worst troll: Sammy
Most insane member: Rami
Most deserved ban: PJKcuber
Martin Telesforo Award for Least Deserving WR: Santosh Tantravahi 9.21 skewb single
Most deserved WR: Yu Da Hyun Mega single+average

loooooool

 

[Robert-Y]

Most surprising WR: Yu Da Hyun's Megaminx WR average. Was anyone expecting it to go down as far as 42.89?

 

[Divineskulls]

Most Deserved WR: Yu Da Hyun (Mega)
Most Badass WR: Louis Cormier (Mega)
Best Farewell: Rowe Hessler
Saddest/Most Disappointing Almost-WR: Drew Brads (Pyra)
Best Cube: Moyu Pyra
Best Side-dish(Post Nats): Fries with Campfire sauce
Most Well-Travelled: Mats Valk
Best Country To Have Worlds In Because It's Already Being Held There So Get Over It: Brazil
Best Professional Speedcuber: Anthony Brooks
Best Cube Store: TheCubicle
Best Cow: Dr. David J Wing, Ph.D.

 

[Dene]

What happened to the Stefan Pochmann award for Dumbest Post of the Year?

 

[TDM]

Lol, when was speedsolving.com formed? 2006 is the oldest I have seen a thread. Is that the oldest bump on here?

I think it's the oldest thread that isn't locked. There are other older threads e.g. this one.
But I thought the llama llama duck thread locked after the last time Kir bumped it, earlier this year...?

A post I found quite funny:

Exactly, finishing full ZBLL in 8 months was easy, really I was slacking off.

I still don't know OLL after two years...

And best thread: ben's thread on how to get sub-20 for pjkcuber

 

[Stefan]

sexiest bump : poop

You screwed up, bumping [thread=8]this[/thread] would've been two more days.

What happened to the Stefan Pochmann award for Dumbest Post of the Year?

Too many candidates, would be a mess.

 

[IRNjuggle28]

Most likely to lose a record next year: Mats Valk (3x3 single)
Least likely to lose a record next year: Feliks (5x5 single)
Most impressive accomplishment: Jabari Nuruddin speedsolving with full ZBLL.
Fastest improvement: Kennan Lejeune.
Most beautiful turning style: Sebastian Weyer (although Drew and Lucas are also wonderful)
Ugliest turning style: Cameron Stollery
Nicest member: Chris Hardwick
Funniest member: Kirjava
Biggest assho|e: Kirjava
Most multitalented: qqwref. Runner up: Alex Lau.
Most amazing discoveries: Chris Mowla
Most interesting worldview: Dene
Most deserving of a ban: probably pewpewrawr, although I don't mind him.
Most deserving of an unban: Ben1996123
Best mod/admin: Brest
Most deserving of a hug: Dene of course



...I'll add more later.

 

[guysensei1]

Most unorthodox turning style: rubikscooter5012

 

[Coolster01]

Best finals performance: Collin at US nationals
best avatar: mine, of course (Ranzha you must like it)
Least deserving WR: whoever had the first skewb single
biggest controversy: Lucas Etter 7.52 NAR
Mee Chay award: Walker Welch
Brest award: Brest
biggest fanboy: Sammy (for Anthony)
Most deserving WR: Maskow 3BLD single
Most surprising WR: Louis Cormier Mega or Kaleta OH
Best farewell: Rowe Hessler (US nats 3rd place)
Best Beard: Is this really up for grabs? (Ryan Deline)
Coolest Skewber: Ranzha, me, Phillip. No one else.
Best practicer: Sumeet Agarwal
Most deserving of a ban: Stefan (I honestly can't stand this guy)
Biggest noob: CriticalCubing
Best/coolest Cubing event: Phillip Espinoza's marathon
Anti- Vincent Sheu award for best finals performance: Kevin Hays at US nats (check out that J perm)
Coolest statistic: WR close calls (https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?26121-Odd-WCA-stats-Stats-request-Thread/page230). Poor Harris...
Best reaction: All the Polish people for Kaleta's OH WR
Best post: This one: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?48774&p=1004532&viewfull=1#post1004532
Worst Posts: Artic's regarding Alex Lau's 7.52 ER average
Most Old School member: IamWEB (aka WEB4)
Most annoying member: Rami
Worst meme: #yearofthewalker2014
Best trend: Sporcle quizzes. They were pretty fun.
Best Cow: Dr. David J Wing, Ph.D.

Thanks

 

[Randomno]

Thanks

I think anyone who calls you annoying does it in a joking way.

Now PJKCuber, on the other hand...

 

[guysensei1]

I think anyone who calls you annoying does it in a joking way.

Now PJKCuber, on the other hand...

I think PJKCuber has improved a lot since the temporary ban.

EDIT: 2000th post

 

[Ranzha]

I still haven't tried to learn full PLL for a year.

I still don't know full PLL after five years.

Dene and Stefan: Of course you can nominate posts for such an award!

 

[Mollerz]

Vincent Sheu Award: Me, 4 +2s in the UKC finals solidifying last place by over 2.4 seconds.

 

[Randomno]

Vincent Sheu Award: Me, 4 +2s in the UKC finals solidifying last place by over 2.4 seconds.

At least it wasn't as bad as your 2x2 first round times...

 

[GG]

best arguing: stefan/kirjava
best arguer: kirjava
best mod: Robert-Y (for reopening accomplishment thread )
best/worst controversy: using video footage to disallow world records
helpful members: Brest, Mollerz, Robert-Y
funny member: Carrot
most deserved ban: PJkCuber
least deserved ban: lolben
friendly members: Mollerz, Robert-Y, TDM
biggest postwhores: PJkCuber, Randomno
funniest post: lolben "How to get sub20"
palest skin: kennan lejeune's underwater solves.
(vincent sheu)worst performance in finals: mollerz (3x3 at ukc)
BIGGEST TROLL: al3x ( https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?47791-ZZ-Help-(unrelated-tips-appreciated!) )

will post more later, a couple i couldn't decide so i put more than one person.

 

[Randomno]

best arguing: stefan/kirjava
best arguer: kirjava
best mod: Robert-Y (for reopening accomplishment thread )
best/worst controversy: using video footage to disallow world records
helpful members: Brest, Mollerz, Robert-Y
funny member: Carrot
most deserved ban: PJkCuber
least deserved ban: lolben
friendly members: Mollerz, Robert-Y, TDM
biggest postwhore: PJkCuber
funniest post: lolben "How to get sub20"
palest skin: kennan lejeune's underwater solves.
(vincent sheu)worst performance in finals: mollerz (3x3 at ukc)

will post more later, a couple i couldn't decide so i put more than one person.

Pretty much same for me.