1) Only one nomination ballot, and one voting ballot will be accepted per person.

14) Ballots can contain only one (1) vote for a nominee, in each category. Any Voting ballots containing more than one vote in a category, will not have that category vote counted. Any other valid votes on the same ballot will be counted.

16) A person cannot nominate, himself or herself. You can vote for yourself, if you make the Voting ballot.

17) The link to cast your ballots is on the bottom of the left side bar. If you do not wish to use the site links to send in your ballots, the address is: tw_awards@hotmail.com

18) Final results will be posted shortly after 04/15/2000, as soon as the ballots have been verified and counted, and the winners declared.

This award will be given to the player voted as the best Red (Evil) Player.

This award will be given to the person voted as the Most Valuable Player.

This is the person who you feel is the most valuable player in TradeWars. This could be due to their knowledge of the game, ability to adapt to any game style of play, ability to adapt to the many game variations or edits, ability to play either alignment extremely efficiently, ability to comprehend the current status of the game, mastery of the available game resources, responses to current game situations as they occur, or just plain total game control and domination.

This award will be given to the Best Helper Program.

This award is to honor the favorite Helper that you feel is the best available for playing TradeWars. This is the program you will usually play with and use regularly. Some players have a few helpers that they use, we want you to choose which one is the best. (Note: While Zoc, and a few other programs allow you to write and use powerful scripts, it is still not a helper program, and as such, and will not be accepted in this category.)

This award will be given to the person voted as The Best Hunter.

This is the person who you feel is the best player tracker, or hunter. This can include the ability to find players using the ports status, using The Grimy Trader at stardock, shooting Ether Probes to locate players or blocked sectors, or the ability to find “hidden” bases or planets.

This award will be given to the person voted as the Best Game Op.

This is the person who you feel is the best TradeWars game operator. This could be due to game settings, different edits to balance the game or make it more challenging, always helpful and listens to the players input, settles any disputes promptly and fairly, puts out that extra effort to help make the game fun, and enjoyable for everyone that plays.

This award will be given to the person voted as
Most Likely To Make You Turn Off Fed Comm.

This is the person who usually causes you to turn off, or makes you want to turn off your Fed Comm channel when they are online. The causes for this are widespread, and we will not go any further into that discussion. (Please do not send any reasons, as well founded as they may be.)

This award will be given to the person voted as The Planet Farmer.

This is the person who you feel is the best planet “farmer”. This can include creating the correct planet types for use in the game, colonizing the planets, obtaining goods and upgrading planets as needed. This player is will almost always be playing as a blue, and will keep their experience points below 1000, so they can park safely in Fed Space.

This award will be given to the player voted as the best CEO.