Time is of the essence so I’ll make this quick. Birthweek is upon as is the tradition of the FFF awards. This topic is a preview of what to expect from some of the topics and namely to nominate members and topics for the appropriate award. Please don’t submit yourself. Also if you have any ideas for other award topics feel free to add those. I’ll continually update this post. Submissions will be closed this Saturday at 6PM US Western standard time.

Now for the lengthy bit:

Best Overall
-Final Fantasy I
-Final Fantasy II
-Final Fantasy III
-Final Fantasy IV
-Final Fantasy V
-Final Fantasy VI
-Final Fantasy VII
-Final Fantasy VIII
-Final Fantasy IX
-Final Fantasy X
-Final Fantasy X-2
-Final Fantasy XI
-Final Fantasy XII
-Final Fantasy Tactics
-Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Best Storyline
-Submissions hidden

Best Graphics (for it's time)
-Submissions hidden

Best Sound Effects/Voicing
-Submission hidden

Best Mini-Game
-Snowboarding (FFVII)
-Chocobo Racing (FFVII)
-Crazy Motorcycle (FFVII)
-Triple Triad (FFVIII)
-Tetra Master (FFIX)
-Chocobo Hot & Cold (FFIX)
-Blitzball (FFX)
-Sphere Break (FFX-2)

Coolest (Favourite) Limit
-Omnislash (Cloud, FFVII)
-Highwind (Cid, FFVII)
-Chaos (Vincent, FFVII)
-Renzokuken (Squall, FFVIII)
-???? (????, FFVIII)
-???? (????, FFVIII)
-????? (????, FFIX)
-????? (????, FFIX)
-????? (????, FFIX)
-Blitz Ace (Tidus, FFX)
-???? (Auron, FFX)
-???? (???? Possibly Wakka, FFX)
-???? (????, FFX-2)
-???? (Someone with a cool limit, FFXII)
- Other submissions, I’m trying to keep this even per game

Best Villian
-Submissions hidden

Strangest Character
-Gau (FFVI)
-Ultros (FFVI)
-Umaro (FFVI)
-Cait Sith (FFVII)
-Quina (FFIX)
-Vivi (FFIX)
-Kimarhi (FFX)
-Fran (FFXII)

Most Overlooked Game
-Final Fantasy I
-Final Fantasy II
-Final Fantasy III
-Final Fantasy IV
-Final Fantasy V
-Final Fantasy VI
-Final Fantasy Tactics
-Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
-Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

Coolest Airship
-Highwind (FFVII)
-Ragnarok (FFVIII)
-Invincible (FFIX)
-Cid's Airship (FFX)
-Celsius (FFX-2)
-Strahl (FFXII)

Guiltiest Pleasure
-Submission hidden, I've also got another suprise poll that goes along with this category
:reno:

Best System
-Class (Numerous)
-Esper (FFVI)
-Materia (FFVII)
-Junction (FFVIII)
-Spheregrid (FFX)
-Dress Spheres (FFX-2)
-License (FFXII)

Best Summon
-Ifrit (Numerous)
-Shiva (Numerous)
-Bahamut (Numerous)
-Odin (Numerous)
-Leviathan (Numerous)
-Ixion (Numerous)
-Knights of the Round (FFVII)
-Cactuar (FFVIII)
-Diablos (FFVIII)
-Anima (FFX)
-Yojimbo (FFX)
-Adrammalech (Tactics/FFXII)
-Exodus (Tactics/FFXII)
-Chaos (FFXII)
-Ultima (FFXII)

Best Character - Male, Leading
-Cloud (FFVII)
-Squall (FFVIII)
-Zidane (FFIX)
-Tidus (FFX)
-Vaan (FFXII)

Best Character - Male, Supporting
-Barret (FFVII)
-Vincent (FFVII)
-Zell (FFVIII)
-Irvine (FFVIII)
-Steiner (FFIX)
-Auron (FFX)
-Delita (FFT)
-Orlandu (FFT)
-Balthier (FFXII)
-Basch (FFXII)

Best Character - Female, Leading
-Tifa (FFVII)
-Aeris (FFVII)
-Rinoa (FFVIII)
-Garnet (FFIX)
-Yuna (FFX/FFX-2)
-Ashe (FFXII)

Best Character - Female, Supporting
-Yuffie (FFVII)
-Quistis (FFVIII)
-Selphie (FFVIII)
-Lulu (FFX)
-Rikku (FFX/FFX-2)
-Paine (FFX-2)
-Fran (FFXII)
-Penelo (FFXII)

Best Battle System
-Submissions hidden

Hardest Overall
-Submissions hidden

Best Soundtrack
-Submissions hidden

Favourite FMV
-Escape from Shin-Ra HQ (FFVII)
-Welcome to the Golden Saucer (FFVII)
-Awakening of the WEAPONs (FFVII)
-Meteor hitting Midgar (FFVII)
-Opening battle between Squall and Seifer (FFVIII)
-Attack on Edea in Deling City (FFVIII)
-Garden battle, Squall saves Rinoa (FFVIII)
-Lunar Cry (FFVIII)
-Bahamut vs. Alexander (FFIX)
-Destruction of Lindblum (FFIX)
-Silver Dragons at the Ilfa Tree (FFIX)
-Opening, Blitzball (FFX)
-Yuna dancing in Kilika (FFX)
-Tidus and Yuna in Macalania Woods (FFX)
-Real Emotion (FFX-2)
-1,000 Words (FFX-2)
-Yuna’s Nightmare (FFX-2)
-Opening (FFXII)

Favourite Spell
-Ultima (Numerous)
-Holy (Numerous)
-Death (Numerous)
-Flare (Numerous)
-Aura (FFVIII)
-Graviga (FFX)

Favourite City/Town
-Midgar (FFVII)
-Costa Del Sol (FFVII)
-Balamb Garden (FFVIII)
-Esthar (FFVIII)
-Lindblum (FFIX)
-Zanarkand (FFX)
-Luca (FFX)
-Rabinastre (FFXII)
-Eruyt Village (hooray for half-nake bunny women!) (FFXII)

*Favorite Mode of Transportation
-Submissions hidden

*Favorite Movie/Anime
-Submission hidden

*Favorite New Addition to the Series
-FFXII
-DoC
-CC

*Favorite Spin-Off/Sequel
-FFX-2
-AC
-DoC
-CC
-BC
-FFXII: Revenant Wings (is this even out yet?)

*Best FF Couple (?)
-Cloud & Tifa
-Cloud & Aeris
-Zack & Aeris
-Squall & Rinoa
-Seifer & Rinoa
-Irvine & Selphie
-Zidaine & Garnet
-Tidus & Yuna
-Shuyin & Lene
-Rasler & Ashe
-Vaan & Penelo
-Balthier & Fran

*Worst FF Couple (?)
-Vincent & Yuffie
-Cid & Shera
-Sephiroth & Aeris
-Scarlet & Heidegger
-Squall & Selphie
-Seifer & Quistis
-Steiner & Eiko
-Kuja & Beatrix
-Tidus & Paine
-Lulu & Wakka
-Auron & Rikku
-Basch & Penelo

Member Awards:
Topic of the Year
-What Are You Listening To? (submited by Lionheart via MSN)
^I'm considering moving this to spam topic since post counts aren't raised for it anymore.

Please submit

*Spam Topic of the Year
Cosmo Candle, due to the million name changes (submited by Lionheart via MSN)

Please submit

*Favorite Forum Prank
-The Kinky Crisis
-This Year’s April Fools Joke
-Staff Forum Visible :o
-The Gnome Attack
-AzA revealing he was in fact a guy
-other submissions?

*Most Missed Forum Game
-AzA’s FF Trivia
-K_D’s Trivia Maze
-RD’s Chocobo Racing (he better bring this back!)
-RF's Riddle Game
-RS's Tower Game (which I never understood)
-SG's Guess That Member
-Leona's Coolness Quiz
-Muffin Princess
-Picture-Word (? I'll have to find the correct title for this)
-Any others?

Spammer of the Year
-Aztec
-Yojimbo
-SG
-Kingtard
-Ayesuku
-Pantera
-RD
-TMC
-Others?

Best Avatar
-K_D
-RA
-SG
-Pantera
-Reonheart
-Aztec
-Vesp
I may drop off relatively inactive members

Submissions?

Best Signature
-SG
-Vesp
-Steph
-Shivadiva
-Pantera
-The Turk
-Aztec
I may drop off relatively inactive members
Submissions?

*Best Set (?)
-Vesp
-Steph
-Lionheart
-RD
-:tifa: (hah! Get it?)
-AzA
Submissions?

*Most Missing Member (formerly Most Kryptonitey Member) aka a completely random submission
-TMC (because no one will vote for me like no one voted for K_D when it was Most Kryptonitey member =P)
-K_D (to redeem himself for last year (?))
Submissions? Its pretty much fair game, but I don't want more than say 10 total
-Ross
-AzA
-Kingtard
-Exile
-Lykoleon

Sexiest Member
-Pantera (due to his recent topic)
-Steph
-Vesp
-Shivadiva
-Busta
-TMC
-MR (two votes so far ho dang)

All active FFF females are automatically included in this poll as is BM, because he can edit my posts and of course me as a joke because I'm ugly as sin.

Most Dedicated Member
-BustaMo
-Lionheart
-RA
-TMC
Submissions?

Most Knowledgeable About FF
-AzA
-RA
Well?

Most Helpful Member
Please don't choose a staff member.
-SG
-Vesp

Site Clown
-Ayesuku
-Aztec
-SG
-TMC

Best Site Contributor
-Vaskal (submited by Lionheart via MSN)
-AzA
-BustaMo
-TMC

Best Quality Poster
-Vaskal
-Vespertine

That's all I got right now for lengthy posters

Most Missed Member (not to be confused with most Missing)
-K_D
-VincentValentine
-Leona
-The Turk
-Pantera
-Drift (Sphere)
-Reonheart (Beyond The Grave)
-Chocobo Chick
-Spinning Free
-Kerithor
-Seifer Almasy
-Vaskal
-MR
-Palglo
-Restless Soul
-STOWA
Anyone else?

Favorite/Most Missed Staff Member
K_D
Vespertine
Mathias
Leona
Did I forget anyone?

*Most Inactive Yet Active Member
-Ross
-RD
-K_D
-AzA
-Goda92
-Vivi
-STOWA
Members who visit the site everyonce in a blue moon

*Biggest Graphic Contributor
-Shivadiva
-AzA
-Halo

*Biggest Fanwork Contributor
-Vesp
-Lykoleon
-TMC

*Most Banned
-submissions hidden

*Biggest Arse
-submissions hidden

*New as of this year

Sorry, dont want to spam this topic too much.


Most banned member for some giggles? hehe :3 xD :p

Just so we can pull a K_D on you and not vote for you, lol.

I will if there's a few more members we could add to it. Possibly RD and Pantera, but I dont know.

Edit: Sh*t how I could forget Aztec who's been banned a number of times. I still need more though if I'm to do this category.

Forum games

SG's Guess the member
Leona's Coolness Quiz

"Arent FFIII and V the same, while FFIV is VI in American and Europe? And do we really need two for Tactics? Double you tee eff Ross."

Actually, I believe the pairings you're looking for are FF III and VI, and FF II and IV.

And the two tactics games are definately completely different, Final Fantasy Tactics was a wonderful playstation game (almost completely the same as Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions which is a PSP game), Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was a completely different game released for the GBA.

I'd also like to suggest:

Most Overlooked Game
Final Fantasy Tactics

I think it would also be nice to see some of the earlier final fantasy games included in awards like:
Best Character - Male, Leading (Ramza- FFT, Cecil-FFII/IV)
Best Character - Male, Supporting (Delita or Orlandu-FFT, Cain or Tellah, FFII,
Best Character - Female, Leading (Rydia- FFII, Terra or Celes- FFVI
Best Character - Female, Supporting
Strangest Character - Gau or Gogo (FFVI) (could replace Umaro)
These are only the characters I could think of off the top of my head... there are many other possible candidates...

Wasnt final fantasy 9's card game called Tetra Master?

That sounds familar.

And is it FFII = FFIV while FFIII = FFV?

I'm also looking for some characters and info from somone whose played FFXII as I'd like to include that this year.

More than anything I'm looking for some submissions for the forum/members section.

Thanks for the feedback I will take it into consideration and I will add older FF characters if someone posts them.

Edit: I'll do a compendium/wikipedia search for the characters and whatnot

Its FF II = FF IV (2=4) and FF III = FF VI (3=6)... Final Fantasy V isn't included in there anywhere...

I got excited when I saw the category for Most Inactive Yet Active Member, until I saw the description at the bottom... I thought for sure I'd get in there for being around for so long and yet having so few posts...

OMG Aztec? :O quick ban me and unban me! lol.

meh I dont mind at all, but it would be funny to have the title haha XD. :p

gotta live up to my name lawl.

Personally i dont think getting banned should be viewed as a joke -- just sets to show FFF doesnt hold bannings very seriously so why follow the rules to begin with.

Does it count if I was banned under several other names, Ip addresses, and e-mail addresses? Or do I get like bonus points for creativity.

Also gotta love how my name makes it to the very top of the spammer list.

Furthermore, potato.

Alright all the submissions so far are good, but they're kind of missing the meat and potatoes of what I'm looking for. Except for Aztec who is of course just missing the meat.

I can work out most of the technical FF research, what I want everone else to do is copy this next bit and nominate some members for some awards. You can nominate multiple members for the same thing as I'm trying to get a list for a poll:

I'd like to mention those last two are mostly a gag for fun. They are not something that is good nor should be worked at to be acheived (neither is biggest spammer in my opinion as that goes against forum rules in a sense). FFF does not support that behavior nor do the staff and like I said its more a joke rather than an award. For the final voting I will edit the titles of both to something more positive to further prove that. I will remove those two options though if I get enough negative feedback about it, which should also be addressed to me personally via PM so I can keep track of it. Better yet everyone PM me saying Yay or Nay on that and I'll filter it out and go with the majority.

Just a quick FYI to Yojimbo and Aztec, all together through all my names, i've probably been banned more.

Stephen Griffiths
Darth Chedda
Fiery Leon
Fiery lionheart
Kratos Aurion

woot

Woooooooooooo AWARD TIME YAAAAAAYYYYYZZZZZZZ!

Uhm here we go some help for the FFXII submissions....

Fran should be in for support character FFXII or even Penelo (but she sucks, which is nice for the boys)

I guess Ashe should be main female character for XII although to be honest there is no clear main character in XII but seeing as the game is about Ashe and her Princessness then it should be her for main.

As for the guys then Vaan could be main character although I only say that because he's billed as the main character. Storyline wise I would say Balthier is more of a main character than Vaan.

For support character then you could go for Basche maybe Lars...

For FFXII couples how about Vann x Penello and Balthier x Fran?

Worst couple you could also go for Auron x Rikku and Scarlett x Heidegger (sp?) hehehe!

The System from FFXII is the License system, which is actually pretty good.

Lets see some more for you.... For best FMV...

VII - When the weapons awake...
- The motorbike chase

IX - When Lindblum gets destroyed.
- Silver dragons at the Iifa Tree.

XII - The opening FMV

I can't think of any other FFXII ones O_o;; I'm not that far in the game though so maybe that's why.

Locations:

FFXII - Rabinastre
- Eruyt Village (although it's full of near to naked bunny women it's really pretty, reminds me of somewhere from lord of the rings.

Summons:

XII - Ultima, the High Seraph

Airship:

XII - Strahl

Strangest Character:

XII - Fran ???? I say this because she's so mysterious and has such a wicked voice.

Hmmmmm I can't think of anymore right now... I hope that helps. I'll do the other submission thinger later when I'm more awake!

Eh, about the FFII-IV etc games, they're all different. IV was known as II in the US because the original II was never released there, same with III and VI. But there's I, II, III, IV, V and VI, and they're all different games.

And, I'd like to nominate the Esper system from VI to "Best system".

And I have another category, best transportation method? Like, Chocobo, Airship, Canoe, Ship, Dragon, Buggy/Car etc etc?

Already got it.

Cheers on the FFXIIness Vesp. I forgot to update the topic, but I added some FFXII characters to the polls thanks to the FF Compendium last night. I figure since FFXII is still relatively new and since not many members have completed it I'll leave it out of a few polls/do a half arse job on stuff like FMV's.

Other suggestions are taken into consideration, I will update the first post, probably after this reply. In mean time lets seem some member nominations people, only two more days to go!

*Biggest Cock Arse: Relient A

Topic of the Year

- Newsflash!

*Spam Topic of the Year

- Pantera's

*Favorite Forum Prank

- Mod forum viewing

*Most Missed Forum Game

- Ah... Picture Word one

Spammer of the Year

- blank

Best Avatar

- Vespi

Best Signature

-SG

*Best Sig/Avi Set

- Vespi

*Most Missing (formerly Kryptonitey) Member

- Ross

Sexiest Member

- MR

Most Dedicated Member

- Busta

Most Knowledgeable About FF

- Relient A

Most Helpful Member

- Vespi

Site Clown

- SG

Best Site Contributor

- TMC

Best Quality Poster

- Vaskal

Most Missed Member

- Vaskal

Most Missed Staff Member

- blank

*Most Inactive Yet Active Member

- Vivi

*Biggest Graphic Contributor

- Shivadiva

*Biggest Fanwork Contributor

- Vespi

*Most Banned Member

- Dont care

^Cheers!

Only 32 more hours to go people, lets see some nominations. You can nominate multiple members for the same award if you think them fit, as I'm trying to get a selection for poll choices. There's still some empty areas and the ones we do have don't have more than 2-3 members in them. I'll update the list later today, probably on my lunch. In the mean time, nominate, nominate, nominate, otherwise this years birthweek awards are going to be rather weak.

I had written out most of this post before then I had to go serve a customer and when I came back someone else was on the mac and they had closed the window... I nearly cried...

Ok so take two!

Some suggestions for limit break:

IX - Eidolon (Garnet)
- double Black (vivi)
- double White (Eiko)

VII - The End (Selphie)
- Fire Cross (Seifer)

X - Banishing BLade (Auron)
- Mix (Rikku)

X-2 - I guess this would be all the final dress sphere's so...
- Floral Fallal (Yuna)
- Full Throttle (Paine)
- Machina Maw (Rikku)

I can't help you with XII I haven't seen all of the Quikenings yet only one of Fran's and one of Balthier's!



As for the nominations....

Topic of the Year

FFX's main villain
FFF Paparazzi

*Spam Topic of the Year

Cosmo Candle

*Favorite Forum Prank

AzA being a guy
Staff forum being visable
Kinky Crisis was awesome too

*Most Missed Forum Game

AzA's FF Trivia
Muffin Princess


Spammer of the Year

TMC
Ayesuku

Best Avatar

K_D (you gtta love his avi)
TMC (I know I made it but I love it, suits TMC perfectly)

Best Signature

Steph

*Best Sig/Avi Set

Steph
AzA

*Most Missing (formerly Kryptonitey) Member

AzA
TMC

Sexiest Member

MR

Most Dedicated Member

Busta
TMC
RA

Most Knowledgeable About FF

Stumped this on this one everyone is pretty knowledgable...

Most Helpful Member

(blast can't choose a member of staff)
SG

Site Clown

TMC
Ayesuku
SG

Best Site Contributor

Vaskal
AzA
TMC
Busta

Best Quality Poster

Vaskal

Most Missed Member

K_D
The Turk
Leona
Vaskal
MR
Palglo (where'd you gooooooooo *cries*)

Most Missed Staff Member

Leona
K_D
Mathias

*Most Inactive Yet Active Member

RD
Ross
STOWA

*Biggest Graphic Contributor

Shiva Diva
AzA
Halo

*Biggest Fanwork Contributor

Lykoleon
TMC

There we go... I didn't fill out the last two I didn't really see the point...

Topic of the Year

- SSBB

*Spam Topic of the Year

- The Cosmo Candle

*Favorite Forum Prank

- Forum invisible

*Most Missed Forum Game

- AzA's FF Trivia

Spammer of the Year

- i dunno...

Best Avatar

- Relient A

Best Signature

- TMC

*Best Sig/Avi Set

- Steph... because Bleach is cool ^__^

*Most Missing (formerly Kryptonitey) Member

- Ross

Sexiest Member

- :lulu:

Most Dedicated Member

- Busta

Most Knowledgeable About FF

- This one i dont know... everyone has their own FF theyre knowledgeable in

Most Helpful Member

- if its anyone in the forum member, ill say TMC

Site Clown

- SG

Best Site Contributor

- TMC

Best Quality Poster

- Vaskal
- TMC

Most Missed Member

- ... i dunno... ill add something later

Most Missed Staff Member

- ... i cant really remember that many... 0.o

*Most Inactive Yet Active Member

- Vivi

*Biggest Graphic Contributor

- Shivadiva

*Biggest Fanwork Contributor

- Vespi

... Next two im not going to answer since I just made a return not too long ago so i wouldnt know

Ill put my votes for the FF ones later, I will also put some suggestions in what could be candidates...

omg not you stephen!!!! quick ban me for another day!! =(

/spamspamspamspamspamspam

umm...good luck members and mods/admins :3

Double-you tee eff

So I get off in like another 3 hours and I had planed on closing voting then so I could get the polls up since tomorrow is not only the start of birthweek, but birthday for the forum, April 13th. We've got 3 members who have filled out the form in full out of what 10-15 active members. C'mon guys, I'll leave this topic open 'til 11:59PM tonight my time, but after that submissions are going to be closed, because the whole point of birthweek is voting for the awards, not spending half the time waiting for people to sumit stuff, so get on that peeps.

Topic of the Year

SSBB

*Spam Topic of the Year

Cheater (Kingtard)


*Most Missed Forum Game

5 word game


Spammer of the Year

Kingtard

Best Avatar
Reonheart

Best Signature
TMC

*Best Sig/Avi Set
TMC

*Most Missing (formerly Kryptonitey) Member
RS

Sexiest Member
TMC

Most Dedicated Member
Vaskal


Site Clown
Kingtard

best Site Contributor
Busta

Best Quality Poster
TMC

Most Missed Member
Printerfrog
RS


*Most Inactive Yet Active Member

Aza

*Biggest Graphic Contributor

Vespertine

Alright due to some technical issues like me going a tad over the 15 poll max choice and getting 10 posts I didn't deserve for making polls (ie posts being counted in the hidden section I was working in) I'm gonna extend the nomnination date to the end of Sunday the 13th, 11:59 WST. After that member nomninations will closed and all the polls will magicall pop up Monday the 14th. Voting will comence until the end of Saturday. On Sunday the 20th I will reveal all the winners and hand out the snazzy trophies.

Here's the form again for those who don't want to go back a page:

*Spam Topic of the Year

- Newsflash!

*Favorite Forum Prank

- Forum Deletion

*Most Missed Forum Game

- Codebreaker

Spammer of the Year

- Yojimbo

Best Avatar

- Mason

Best Signature

- anyone but Aztec's

*Best Sig/Avi Set

- Vespi

*Most Missing (formerly Kryptonitey) Member

- Ross

Sexiest Member

- Steph/shivadiva/Vespy

Most Dedicated Member

- RA

Most Knowledgeable About FF

- Leonhart

Most Helpful Member

- SG

Site Clown

- Aztec

Best Site Contributor

- TMC

Best Quality Poster

- Vaskal

Most Missed Member

- Melancholy Rockit

Most Missed Staff Member

- Red Demon

*Most Inactive Yet Active Member

- RestlessSoul

*Biggest Graphic Contributor

- Shivadiva

*Biggest Fanwork Contributor

- lykoleon

*Most Banned Member

- Aztec Triogal/Rusher Nova/Aztec 2.0/Triogal the Rebirth/Angry Beaver/Slutty Dwarf/Clint Taurus