The Brick Awards: The Best of the Worst Tournament #441-480

[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 Thursday, February 4 at 10AM (MT). Any votes made after that will NOT count toward the totals.

hates you so much for not voting on #434 Heavy is the Head during the Stick Awards, but he's willing to forgive now that he's last week's winner!



.THE BRICK AWARDS: 0441 - 0480

441 Getting Ahead and Staying Ahead
444 He's Dead, Jim
447 Guarding the Sapphire
450 Wands Are for Suckers
454 The Longshot
461 I've Got a Bad Feeling About This...
466 I Think I Left it in the Bag...
468 Splitting Up is Hard to Do
469 Crossbones
474 The Body Snatcher

[Bird]

I never realized before how many body-less heads there were in this part of the story. There's Skullsy, Roy slicing the dragon's neck, and Miko kicking a cleric mook's head off.

Not very high-brow of me, but I'll go for the latter decapitation--461.

[ChillerInstinct]

You know, I'm not usually one for the mushy stuff. But there's something about #468 that really gets me right... here. Especially since this would be the last time they'd see each other in over 150 strips.

[Euclidodese]

469 Loads of brilliant Belkar lines... I mean, the idea of being angry at someone because they weren't cool with being crapped in... Or being angry with another person because you assume they have tons of people to crap in... I love you Belkster.

[Emanick]

Wait, 469: Crossbones got no votes? Not even mine? It has one of my favorite OOTS comedic exchanges of all time.

[Laurana]

I find all of these pretty meh, barring one which is exceptionally funny and one of my absolute favorites:

#450. Belkar with the fireball spitting, fear inducing scared Skullsy is total genius. Love this thoroughly.

[Pyrous]

469 - Crossbones gets my vote too.

[Jaxzan Proditor]

I think I'll go with #441.

[dmc91356]

469 for me.

[Markozeta]

454 - Why spend 4 panels watching the arrows if it wasn't going to do anything?

[Gift Jeraff]

#461 I guess.

[137beth]

Tough one, I'll go with 444.

[Killer Angel]

454.
Probably for the masterful planning by RC

[Mike Havran]

#474 for the introduction of vampires into the story (sort of).

[Emperordaniel]

#447 for seeing the (living) members of the Sapphire Guard as close to full strength as we ever will.

[Bulldog Psion]

I'll go for #474. For whatever reason, I still find the alternate Roy undead forms somewhat amusing.

"Who knows what stupidity lurks in the hearts of men?"

[obaryb]

#474 for the introduction of vampires into the story (sort of).

Same for me.

[nogall]

feels good to be back. And the path is clear: 461.

[Sylian]

444, 447, or 469, hmm... Quite strong comic strips here... 469.

[Laurana]

Only one potential ultra brick so far, and it's a pretty decent strip too. Come on people! Surely you didn't think we kept the receipt?

[declinator]

I'll also go with Crossbones 469, although this was a pretty decent bunch for this kind of award.

[Pyrous]

I'll also go with Crossbones 469, although this was a pretty decent bunch for this kind of award.

I think you missed the deadline again.

[littlebum2002]

I think you missed the deadline again.

This one's my fault I think. The problem is that the only computer I have is at work, and sometimes I get really busy when the deadline comes around and can't get to it until later that day or the next day. I should finish this one sometime today though.

[littlebum2002]

This is one of those weeks where I'm simply amazed at how good the strips are! It seems like most of there were right before/after a major event, so they were probably overlooked for the more important strip that neighbored them. I'm going with #454, personally.

#469 Crossbones is our winner this week

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!

#466 goes on to the ultra brick awards.

Full Results are as follows

........THE BRICK AWARDS: 0441-0480

	Comic Number	Votes Received	Vote Percentage
	441	1	5.3%
	444	1	5.3%
	447	1	5.3%
	450	1	5.3%
	454	3	15.8%
	461	3	15.8%
	466	0	0%
	468	1	5.3%
	469	5	26.3%
	474	3	15.8%

Please join us for the next round of voting!