JCS Awards 2013 - Nominations
 

It's that time of year again, which JCSers eagerly wait for - the return of the JCS Awards! Although the quantity of uploads this year may have been low compared to previous years, there were no doubt some excellent levels this year which deserve recognition. The addition of AngelScript has been a significant milestone in history of JCS, and will no doubt be explored further in the years to come.

For those of you new to the system: this thread is for nominating award-worthy levels from the past year. Feel free to nominate anything, even your own uploads if you're feeling less noble. Once the nomination period is over (in a few days), another thread will open where you can vote for your favourite uploads in their respective categories, based on a list of nominations formulated from the response to this thread.

Here are the categories you can nominate levels for:

• Best Battle Level
• Best CTF Level
• Best Other MP Level
• Best SP Level
• Best JJ1 Level
• Best Use of AngelScript
• Best JCSer

It's probably noteworthy that the Best Tileset category is absent this year, due to the total absence of good tileset releases last year (prove me wrong). I should also elaborate that the Best Use of Angelscript category refers specifically to the most effective/creative application of scripting to a level concept, and not simply "the best level that happens to use AngelScript".

If there's any other categories you think should be included, feel free to mention them. Else, get nominating!

Here are a few of my suggestions.

Best Battle Level: Alcatraz by Loon, Gloom by FawFul, Maelstrom by Ragnarok!
Best CTF Level: Canyon Grove by PurpleJazz, Stronghold by SuperJazz
Best Other Level: Ozymandius by Violet CLM
Best Use of AngelScript: Violet CLM in Ozymandius

Battle: Abandoned Area, Ascension, Forgotten Toilet Chronicles, Nuostabus Pobudis, Shimmering Cavern, Sinister Setting, Towerfall, Trembling Tundra;
CTF: 6:33, Depths of Void, Trepidation;
Other: Nuostabus Pobudis;
AngelScript: Forest Wheel, No Way Out, The Paint Game, Towerfall;
JCSer: Foly, Loon, Violet CLM.

Battle: Unfound Area by DarkSonic, Sinister Setting by DarkSonic
CTF: Brave Cave by RabidRabb, HuitzilÃ(-)huitl by Loon, Los Pollos Hermanos by Ragnarok!, Technological Problems by DarkSonic.

(Other CTF levels from the JJnetS8 are already mentioned)

The is no category for 'Best Mappack' (But there barely are multiple uploads..)

Best Battle
Battle Game by cooba
Cerulean Comet by PurpleJazz
...I'm Going to Hell Anyway by ShadowGpW and cooba
Quick Diamonds by Jerry
Towerfall by Violet CLM

Best Single Player (seriously PJ?)
Hereafter by cooba
AngelScript by Violet CLM
Ozymandius by Violet CLM

Best JJ1 level
Nippius Heights by Violet CLM
Bad Seed by cooba

Best Use of AngelScript
plusMenu.j2l by cooba
Tetris by Violet CLM

Best Tileset
Burning Towers by Perf

You voted your own creations as best. That's not much humble.

Without offense.

Why not add a "Single Player / Cooperative" line?

"Other" would just stand for Treasure, Race, Domination and so on.

I don't like the idea of merging the Single Player and Cooperative line with the other ones, because if the winner is a race game and there has been a really good single player episode uploaded lately ... well, that's UNFAIR for who made the SP episode!

Seconding this, and adding Player Guided Missile.

Looking for answers - part 1 looks good for the SP category.

I'd like to nominate my own upload to the SP category: Literally Frozen Spring. Those 2 levels weren't too big an effort, but people apparently enjoyed them, so why not. :p

For the other categories, well, I shamefully haven't checked many downloads last year. Not enough to make a fair vote. I did enjoy Ozymandius and plusTetris a lot!

If I can find the time, I might check and play the final list of nominees once the thread is there.

Nominations are still open, people! Comb that downloads section. You never know but something may have been released in early enough 2013 that you misremembered it as being older/ineligible.

Add Sky Gardens by Foly to the CTF list. Forgot about that one.

Other: Forest Wheel

Best Contest...
JJNet CTF ladder mappool contest

@ SE,

You have already mentioned Forest Wheel in your previous post :P.

Best AS...

Not sure of the name, but 2 levels by Sal...

Self creating maze level,
And rocket powered rabbits.

Best battle level...
Gloom by Fawfuloso.

Best SP...
Ozzy Man Die Us by Violet CLAM.

Best CTF...
Stronghold by CJ
Trepidation by Plumbe

In nomination to a different award.

Most of these maps are already mentioned. No need to write them down here twice.

Apologies for not sorting this out sooner - my schedule has been incredibly busy over the past month. I'll have a look through all the nominations (will also see if I can find anything else worthy myself) and try to have the voting thread posted this weekend.

EDIT: Here it is