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Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:55 pm
by Benkern
I would encourage anyone who has made a particularly significant contribution to their micronation to nominate themselves (or point it out to someone else) as our Vyktoryan friend has done, because the longer the list of nominations, the better! And speaking as a Bastionado navel-gazer, it's hard to remember what was going on in many places this year... :mrgreen:

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:38 pm
by NewZimiaGov
In that case I will nominate my own Passio-Corum for the Award for Economics. Since leaving SCUE last year, Passio-Corum has continued to refine and improve its economic systems, and as a result has developed the largest, most complex, sustainable market in the world. As such, Passio-Corum is perhaps still the only nation in the world truly working to foster economic growth.

Links:
Pallisican Market: http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title= ... ional_Mall
Pallisican Economy Summary: http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title= ... ssio-Corum
This work, again, is all based on the ideas contained in my old essay: http://micras.org/wiki/index.php?title= ... Economy%22

Also, I'd like to nominate Edgard for the Award for Conflict Resolution, for his role in leading the effort resolve the territorial disputes regarding Passas. Edgard's effort, and his early willingness to open discussions in the first place, brought an end to an eight year old point of intense disagreement between Hamland and the Pallisican state. For this I believe he should be recognized.

Links:
Thread in which Passas is figured out: http://hamland.mncommunities.org/commun ... hp?tid=778

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 2:59 am
by nexxusdrako
Just wanna make another nomination quickly.

Award for Economics ("the Andreas")
Seconding Shireroth and Natopia's nomination, so long as you add Vyktory for being the first of the three to do it. :P

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:05 am
by High King Harald
A quick nomination, if still possible. :)

Award for Art ("the Artz")

Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir, for the many beautiful coats of arms she has created.

Some examples:

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 97#p144797

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 13&t=18537

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 23&t=17591

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 03#p133703

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 88&t=17169

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 30#p133130

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 81&t=17391

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 16#p139616

http://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic ... 08&t=17436

Award for Leadership ("the Mortis")

Fjǫrleif Hallbjörnsdóttir, for the Landsraad of Shireroth has during her diligent, competent and wise Prætorship been transformed from a rather disfunctional legisture into one of the best functioning legislative bodies of Micras.

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:52 pm
by Continuator
Chaps,

You have until midnight tomorrow (Thursday the 5th of January, GMT) in which to submit nominations.

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 10:06 pm
by Continuator
Final nomination from me:

Amir al-Saud for best new micronationalist. For writing a shittonne on the wiki within his first few days. If he keeps that up, he'll be quite prolific.

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:28 pm
by Amir
I accept the nomination

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:51 pm
by Continuator
Craitman,

I assume the intention is for the judges to commence judging today?

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:19 pm
by Craitman
I would assume so, if we intend to hit the January 8th Norton Day announcement tradition!

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:14 pm
by Continuator
That would make sense - so I've voted.

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:22 pm
by Continuator
Well, Norton Day was yesterday. If anyone is in regular contact with Nathan, could you hold him upside down and shake him - as apparently he is the last judge left to vote.

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:24 pm
by Jack
I shook him now he's...
Spoiler!
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Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 7:50 pm
by Nathan
I'm sorry I'll go vote :oops:

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:10 pm
by Craitman
With the acknowledgement and observance of Norton Day two days ago, the FNORD judging panel felt it best to delay the announcing of this year's award winners to allow for the people of Micras to celebrate this joyous occasion and recover from all that date observation!

The first award of the evening is for the Best New Idea. A unanimous decision for the only nomination this year, as Carl (known on his Hub account as Hālian) takes this award for his idea and fruition of the Micras Discord server. Since its creation, the server has grown from a small group looking for something more reliable than Skype to a multi-channel chat with over twenty regular users, bringing together micronationalists from all across the community to talk with others they'd otherwise have little interaction with and even giving new members a gateway into Micras!

While the Micras Discord may also come with the occasional disagreement, when it comes to diffusing such situations, Edgard has been your man this year. He has been given the Conflict Resolution award for his diplomatic reasoning throughout a difficult affair which saw Hamland and Passio-Corum at loggerheads regarding the position of Passas. Edgard's involvement smoothed the path for amicable talks and oversaw the peaceful transition of the control of Passas and a number of other outlying territories.

However, the Alexandrian is not just a one-trick pony. The award for Leadership also makes its way to Edgard's possession. Under a number of guises, he has shown his authoritative talents in Shireroth; where his reign as Kaiser Redquill was prosperous, Natopia; where he currently heads the government as Benjamin Meir after a successful election, and of course in Alexandria; which seemingly goes from strength to strength under his guidance.

While micronationalism is often an individual pursuit, the collaboration of a larger group can produce even higher standards of work. Shireroth's ShireWiki is a prime example of this, and its considerable and continued additions, work and improvements from all its contributors this year have made it one of the community's greatest resources, making its awarding of the Cultural Development award exceedingly fitting.

Not only is cultural development a forte for the Shirerithians, their nation is one based on a multitude of histories, of which the Goldshire Civil War is but one. Ardy's in-depth coverage and descriptions of the war have earned him the award for History this year.

It takes one skill to document history, but it takes another to tell a story. The award for Literature honours this and there was only one person whose work was deserving of such an accolade this year, with Krasniy's sagas in Minarboria (of which there are almost too many to count: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11) facing no opposition.

With writing also comes reporting, and so onto the Journalism award. While there were no public nominations this year - not even for the winners of the past four Journalism FNORDs! - the judges agreed that the fantastic political news coverage from Alexandria's ABC News in 2016 was worthy of this recognition.

Turning from the front pages to the back pages, with the award for Sport. Holy shit, I won Craitman's work establishing wiki articles for Micras' football clubs has given us more sporting information and given him the award which shares his name for the first time.

Art is occasionally considered a dying, well, art in micronationalism. 2016, however, witnessed a prolific display of conceptual portraits by David across three nations to win him the Art award without contest.

Micronational economies are notoriously difficult things to get right and maintain - 2009's FNORD-winning concept has learnt that this year - but there are still means and ideas floating around to win the Economics award. This year's winners Passio-Corum's economy has shown its sustainability and has continued to grow in complexity as others falter.

Two other nations which have sprung roots this year have benefited from solid economic bases, with both having an equal stake in the Most Promising New Micronation category. Sharing the accolade are the Maritime Markets, whose approach to a wiki-based existence complements their economic culture, and Blackstone, with its penchant for trading and a willingness to engage in disputes surely setting the stage for bright futures for the pair.

But what are micronations without micronationalists? While we may not get many new ones through our doors, when one comes along a week before the FNORDs are announced and wins one, that's something to take note of. That's exactly what Amir has done to garner the Most Promising New Micronationalist award, bringing refreshing enthusiasm and a blistering work rate to MicrasWiki with his detailed articles about his nation Sayaffallah before it's even claimed on Micras.

If there's ever a nation who can give advice about claiming, though, it's Jingdao, whose return to Micras following what seemed to be a certain, self-induced end to the nation showed tremendous restraint and resilience by its citizenry. That's why they can proudly declare "'Tis But a Flesh Wound" when adversity strikes.

Lastly, as we are wont to do in such ceremonies, we have the award for Overall Achievement. As the sole nominee, and with such resounding arguments towards his awarding as "Do I need to say anything more?" and "'nuff said", it would perhaps be fitting to give him it and not really explain why, but thankfully one of the nominations gave us a little bit more to go on! With fingers in many a proverbial pie, his recent Shirerithian Kaisership, multiple contibutions on ShireWiki, the ability to juggle involvement in Minarboria, taking-on administration of a heavily-fraught SCUE, and even playing the unofficial head judge in the FNORD Awards, of which he has already won one this year, we can see why people thought he was such an obvious nomination. Therefore, the final award of the FNORDs for 2016 goes to Ardy!

Re: Fnords 2016

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:23 pm
by Nathan
Congratulations to all winners! All well-deserved and hard-earned :D