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ok every monday we have awards !!!

what about

Most improved doob
Most helpful
Best play
need help thinking of awards and I need some kinda team to help me pick people ect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E&feature=player_detailpage

This...I like this.

Bold Italic Strike!

Best Suicide
Most Wards Placed
Highest CS (maybe only give this to a first time participant)

What is it that we want to promote with these awards? The two things that jump to mind are to (a) make new people feel at home faster and (b) encourage positive behavior in the community. Specific awards targeting new people would definitely help (a), and the (b) awards should range from fun (best suicide) to improvement (winning solo mid for the first time). To spread the love around, we could also have a rule that one person cannot win multiple awards in the same month.

And now for brainstorming:

Nope! (In order of increasing importance, most creep denies, tower denies or ally denies)
Maelk award (10+ deaths, 20+ assists)
I've got my eye on you (Placed an influential ward, be it catching enemies Roshing or warning of a incoming gank on carry, etc.)
Save meh! (Best sacrifice to save a teammate)

As far as a team goes, I know that Gambit has already been handing out some items and my guess is that Fallen and I would be glad to help out. Cheers.

More than happy to help out and start giving away some items/chests. I think we should do maybe 5-6 new guy/relatively new guy awards and 3-4 general awards, but not announce them beforehand. The new guy awards could be a bit more serious/game play related with the others being more community oriented, i.e. Did Not Let Shane Get Saved, Made Fallen Rage Hardest, Continually Beats Uno to GLHF, etc.

Maybe Uno, Shane, myself, and someone else could decide on the awards beforehand and keep an eye out for potential recipients then send items with a note the next day and make a post on the forums.

More ideas:
Denied First Blood (i.e. denied a hero who was galed)
Team Strat FTW (Knight Strat, Purple Strat, etc)
Black Hole is Channeled... (not fully channeling a channeled spell, BH, Epi, etc)

Oh goodness, did you happen to catch the first game of the Dota2 staff cup? Tobi had a 0.1 second BH.

Uno, some of us have real jobs. We can't sit around watching and playing Dota all day.

Just in the morning, *sniffle*

Well, alright then.

what could the awards be ?

Do you mean rewards here? We posted a few award ideas above, and as to rewards maybe a donated common item?

Why don't the 3 of us discuss this on mumble tomorrow morning? I know I usually get a few games in with Shane and our other european friends relatively early since I'm up around 6AM EST on saturdays (Marty needs to be walked). Uno, would you be free maybe at 8 CST?

For you two gents, make it 8:30 CST.

I like this. Uno, your a visionary and your post is right-on-par. I just deleted all my spare common and uncommon items (and got 2 rares!) but I can definitely buy some things out of the store for a prize pool.

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The hardest part about pulling this off is going to be picking winners, it will require one or two of us core members to spectate each game (if we all spec one game a night that should be enough, I think there should be a steam-chatroom open with us in there discussing all this kinda stuff on Sundays so we can converse regardless of where we are in Mumble).

I also think the awards for each night should have the potential to be on a per-game basis. For example, maybe two different newer players to the community dropped 'influential wards' in different games, I think they could both be awarded for that, and if some of the awards go unfulfilled then no big deal.

Expect some PM's from me shortly about something that might help with this as well.

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Also, I vote we create a "Mumble" page on the main-site and add it to the nav-bar with connection and download info (screenshots!) and move the "whose online" thing to that page. Then we replace that top area of the side-bar with the last weeks award-winners. New members seeing their name on the front-page after joining us for one Sunday would be cool!

An award idea that's been tossed around, MAN UP(awsome 1vs5 moment, ulting 15+ times as Sven, other random event that makes people scream "MAN MODE!!!")

And I would like to donate some items to the prize pool as well.

I think a steam chatroom would be perfect for this, and Fallen, Shane and I had already talked about sitting out and spectating different games during the Sunday IHs.



I see no problem with giving shared awards out. If we are having difficulty choosing between two people, spread the joy!



That is a great idea. I can give a Mumble page a go on Wordpress and see what you think. Cheers!

It should be like Biggest Juke awards, smalles juke consolation prize, strongest back award etc
Edit: I can also throw some items in the pool. I can also be on the board of picking for the times that i am online