The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #411-440

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

Voting will last until Wednesday, January 27 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

Last week, the forum took a change in perspective to the change in perspective in #392 Death From Above and decided it was, in fact, worthy of our praise.



.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0411 - 0440

411 The Power Behind the Throne
414 Noble is Goodble
423 Periodic Bombardment
426 Three of a Kind
427 They're Just Another Brick in the Wall
433 Resource Management
434 Heavy is the Head
436 Non-Military Intelligence
437 Battle Momentum
438 The Paladin is Your Pal

[Pyrous]

423 - Periodic Bombardment

Some of us got passing grades in Chem.

[LotusWyvern]

423, definitely the best one here.

[Sir_Norbert]

Agreed, only #423 comes into serious consideration.

On a side note, it's going to be very difficult to vote in the next round, as there are actually quite a lot of great strips this Awards has picked up.

[Bird]

Great pages, here! I'll go with 434 for Xykon taking his crown back. With style.

Thanks for the fun tournament, littlebum.

[littlebum2002]

Thanks for the fun tournament, littlebum.

Thanks, it means a lot!

I certainly have a newfound respect for Porthos after doing this. It is a LOT more work than it seems!

[Gift Jeraff]

#434

Spoiler: :xykon:

Show

[Emperordaniel]

I'll put in a vote for #427.

[ChillerInstinct]

How #423 got skunked last time, I don't know. But since it's already gotten a fair bit of love in such a short period, I'm going to throw my vote elsewhere.

Namely, to #427, just for V's unconventional approach to warfare. While it sadly didn't last long once the Death Knight got involved, it was a nice touch.

I think I just failed my Spot check... ninjas must be around. Well, no point letting a vote go to waste... LET #436'S REAPING BEGIN!

[obaryb]

#434 for Xykon and Roy together.

[Euclidodese]

#434 for the incredible line: "Needless to say, hilarity insued."

[Syldar]

423. Chemistry for the win!

[Laurana]

Yes, thanks Littlebum! I come to the forums basically for this alone.

Another fairly strong bunch.

437 is funny because of the Law of Cartoon Inertia.

423 is a fine strip.

434 is classic Xykon. Very good one. Badass. REALLY badass.

But my pick is what I reckon is far and away the best of the lot: #427. A very cool episode entirely dedicated to V. The poor omen, length of explanations as opposed to the plans themselves and of course the payoff. One of my favorites.

[Markozeta]

427 - V sealed the weak spot in the entire armory alone, with no help. Indeed, if V had help, V might not have begun to have some of the nightmares that led to his/her inability to trance. It's actually plot related, and a nice tribute to how powerful V is.

Edit: Strike that - I'll go with 411. Without that one conversation, the entire battle could have been very, very different - had Xykon not scryed on Miko to hear that conversation.

[Vargtass]

434 - heavy is the head indeed!

[Killer Angel]

427
Wizards really can change a battle.

[Mike Havran]

#436 Let the reaping begin!

[Emanick]

I've always found Panels 5 and 6 of 414: Noble is Goodble inordinately funny, and feel compelled to vote for it.

[137beth]

Dang, these strips are getting better. I wouldn't consider any of them "bad", and I'm surprised many of them got 0 votes.
Anyhow, I think it's between 411 for the exposition, 426 for the complication, and 434 for the near-climax. I think 426 gets my vote.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

*#427*...the title may have swayed me more than it should have.

[ChristianSt]

411 - The Power Behind the Throne.

[dmc91356]

I'm partial to Xykon - 434.

[Sylian]

Hmm... 436, I suppose.

[declinator]

I'll save 437 from the Ultra-Brick awards, not necessarily for the cartoon physics, but for the way V is shown a way to bypass spell resistance.

[littlebum2002]

I'm voting for 423, but that's not enough to push it past #434 Heavy is the Head

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

#'s 433, 437 and 438 go on to the ultra brick awards.

Full Results are as follows

........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0411-0440

	Comic Number	Votes Received	Vote Percentage
	411	2	8.7%
	414	1	4.3%
	423	5	21.7%
	426	1	4.3%
	427	4	17.4%
	433	0	0%
	434	6	26.1%
	436	3	13.0%
	437	0	0%
	438	0	0%

Please join us for the next round of voting!

[Pyrous]

I hate to be the Lawful voice, but wasn't the only vote cast for 437 invalid?

[Markozeta]

I agree it is invalid - it was after the deadline.

[littlebum2002]

Yes, you are correct, #437 with its slightly funny cartoon trope joke will in fact go into the ultra-brick awards, which started off as a joke but are looking more and more likely as something I'm going to have to do to keep the community happy!

And yes this means that the percentages are now off, but no I'm not going to fix them

[Markozeta]

The Ultra-Bricks seem to accrue at around 5.8% of total strip population. At the rate things are going, you should see no more than about 60 - 80. (Depending on how long this thing takes and what the latest strip will be).

[Pyrous]

And yes this means that the percentages are now off, but no I'm not going to fix them

Here are the corrected percentages:

........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0411-0440

	Comic Number	Votes Received	Vote Percentage
	411	2	9.1%
	414	1	4.5%
	423	5	22.7%
	426	1	4.5%
	427	4	18.2%
	433	0	0%
	434	6	27.3%
	436	3	13.6%
	437	0	0%
	438	0	0%