The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #711-750

[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 went 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!

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.

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

Voting will last until Tuesday, April 26 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

How did 670 The War Council win last week?? One vote at a time.

.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0711 - 0750

711 The Rouge's Guild
712 Neutralize Elf
714 This Whole Time, He'd Thought of It as the Snack That Got Away
715 Wanted
721 Pain Threshold
726 Mammals Can't Seem to Get Enough of Those Things
728 The Price of Yummies
731 Long Tail of the Law
741 Scheduling Conflict
744 A Tale of Two Suppers
749 Savings and Trust

[ChillerInstinct]

Geez, the 710's got HAMMERED during the Stickies, didn't they?

I hate to say it, but this is one of the weakest bunches so far. Kind of an odd contrast, really, considering how strong the last bunch (which included the opening to the arc in question) was.

Of the ones on display here... no contest for me, really. #721 easily takes this one in my mind, between the catering budget gag and the graph about Pointy vs. Yummy.

[Jasdoif]

721 has the advantage of the "no/probably not" chart, even if it's not as reassuring as might have been imagined.

[Bird]

I enjoyed "variable speed corn muffins" in 721, but 744 wins for a bunch of little things. Seeing all the dinner guests in a row at the table. Drunken Haley sassing Durkon. Pensive Elan. Glutton bully Belkar. "These ones taste like neck!"

[Emanick]

This is difficult. These are literally all good-but-not-great strips in roughly the same range of quality. I don't even have a top five, let alone a top one.

I've gotta vote, though, because I believe strongly in the democratic process. I can't make an "objective" decision on which strip is actually best, so I'll just go with 731: The Long Tail of the Law, because for some reason I love Roy's snark at the end. Sometimes it's heart with these strips, not head.

[Laurana]

A lot of ok stuff, but I agree that it's one of the weakest groups so far.

I guess I'll go with 741, for the Gladiators Games poster.

[obaryb]

#744
I believe that Thor also had a saw.

[Sir_Norbert]

#712 Really great last lines from V.

[nogall]

are we getting paid enough to vote for 721? probably yes!

[martianmister]

715 Wanted

[Sylian]

I am getting paid enough to vote for 721, 'cause I don't need to get paid at all to vote for that!

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I'll go with #744 for Haley's interpretation of Dwarven mythology.

[Euclidodese]

744 Drunk Haley is awesome!

[dmc91356]

I like 721, amazing it didn't get a single vote the first go round. The I look at 723 and 724 and understand why.

[Liquor Box]

726 Not only does Hayley's warm weather outfit look revealing, but in the third panel Tarquin actually refers to that fact.

[Markozeta]

Is there enough votes for 721? Probably Not.

[littlebum2002]

I'm voting for 714, I thought the "sit on your brain" and "puns are for girls" lines were both great.


Ultra bricks: 711, 728, and 749


721 Pain Threshhold is our winner this week

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!


........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0711-0750

	Comic Number	Votes Received	Vote Percentage
	711	0	0%
	712	1	6.3%
	714	1	6.3%
	715	1	6.3%
	721	6	37.5%
	726	1	6.3%
	728	0	0%
	731	1	6.3%
	741	1	6.3%
	744	4	25%
	749	0	0%

Please join us for the next round of voting!