There was no Newby award this year. We decided to ax that award for three reasons. One of them is that the situation in which mostly long term members had a chance for an award doesn't exist anymore. More than a third of the active GOF members joined within the last year and it was clear before the vote even started that many of them would be credited for their awesome contributions to the GOF
The second reason was that (same as in case of so many awards) it would be extremely difficult to decide for one of the many candidates for there are so many who deserve the recognition.
And finally the winner of last years Newby award disappeared and is not likely to reappear in the GOF anymore :unsure:
Therefore we decided to come up with a new award for long time active members who not just came to the GOF but also stayed. It will be issued to members who have been with the GOF for at least more than two years (which means that this year the awards for those who joined in 2004 and 2005 will be issued), who posted at least a hundred times, who posted within the last three months, and who were generally active on the GOF since they joined.
This is the award for members who joined back in 2004:
The following members may add the Joining award of 2004 into their signatures:
Littlefoot
Littlefoot1616
Malte279
Mirumoto_Kenjiro
NewOrder
Nick22
Petrie
Threehorn
WeirdRaptorThis is the award for members who joined back in 2005:
The following members may add the Joining award of 2005 into their signatures:
action9000
F-14 Ace
pokeplayer984
Stitch
RaptorAnd while we are issuing awards, here is another one. We haven't so far issued the award for participation in the last GOF singing project, "Things Change".
This is the award:
And the following members may add it to their signatures:
Dash the Longneck
Flathead770
Guido
Malte279
landbeforetimelover
Manny Cav
Nimrod
Pokeplayer984
Stitch