Back on track!
All of these annual awards are based on what we call the PG-HQ Year, in this case - Year 5 - all activity from June 6th 2014 to June 5th 2015, inclusive. Furthermore, in order to be eligible for an award you must have played and recorded at least 6 battles during this period. That's equivalent to achieving our first promotion from Recruit to Private. The reasoning is if you can't play once every 2 months you probably don't deserve an award!
Also, don't forget that the full list of yearly winners for each award is in our Hall of Fame!
This award is totally pointless but I love it anyway.
At 20:59:56 on 2014 June 6th, U.S Central Time, Matt W added the first play of PG-HQ's fifth year. Congratulations buddy, you and your play for Panzer Lehr #14 were FIRST! in Year 5.
Unawarded! Articles fell by the wayside AGAIN in Year 4 and 5. I will place renewed emphasis on this section in Year 6. There is still a great deal of untapped potential here!
Five years, five recipients - our most prestigious award has thus far proven impossible to defend! This year's winner once again stood head and shoulders above the rest. Congratulations thomaso827, you are the 2015 Player of the Year with an impressive 129 scenarios logged between 2014 June 6th and 2015 June 5th!
- Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 71 plays
- Second Runner-up: driddle01, 48 plays
Plays are the fuel that drives our statistics, but the character, the nature of Panzer Grenadier only truly seeps forth from our After Action Reports. We have a new champion this year with a grueling 129 reports filed. Congratulations thomaso827!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend, 31 AARs
- Co-Runner-up: dricher, 31 AARs
They just go on and on and on! Hopefully it's all worth reading in the end!
The PG-HQ member with the longest wind in 2015 was Brett Nicholson, who averaged a copious 1,060 words per AAR over 16 AARs!
Was there even a battle? No one knows because these authors aren't talking!
The PG-HQ member with the lowest average AAR word count in 2015, and therefore the member who most readily got to the point, was t1M0t8yk, who averaged a miserly 163 words per AAR over 8 AARs!
Easy to Please goes to the member with the highest average scenario rating over the past year. 2015's most perpetually satisfied member was thomaso827 with an average rating of 4.1705 over 129 scenario ratings.
- Runner-up: davidthedad averaged 4.1 over 10 ratings
- Second Runners-up: nicky_longbranch averaged 4.0 over 6 ratings
Conversely, some people just ain't ever happy with their battles. Maybe they have bad luck picking scenarios to play, maybe they simply hold Panzer Grenadier to a higher standard than the rest of us... no matter the reason, we salute their discriminating taste all the same!
2015's most perpetually dissatisfied member was CricketHawk with an average rating of 2.5714 over 7 ratings.
- Runner-up: willdeworde averaged 2.8462 over 13 ratings
- Second Runner-up: t1M0t8yk averaged 2.9 over 10 ratings
The Bounty Master award goes to the member with the highest bounty total for the year. This year's winner is thomaso827, who claimed a peerless 42,276 points over 258 bounties.
- Runner-up: JayTownsend, 13,618 points over 62 bounties
- Second Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 12,827 points over 94 bounties
The Bounty Sniper award goes to the member with the highest bounty average. This year's winner is JayTownsend, who averaged 219.6452 points over 62 bounties.
Fancy a big game hunt? The Trophy Hunter award goes to the member who has bagged the largest play & AAR bounty set by points over the past year.
This year's winner is JayTownsend, who bagged 543 points with his play & AAR set for Hammer & Sickle #36.
- Runner-up: waynebaumber, 500 points for Army Group South Ukraine #3
- Second Runner-up: JayTownsend, 497 points for Hammer and Sickle #25
"We fought and we fought and we fought and we fought... and at the end of the day... nobody won!"
Frustrating I'm sure! In honor of those among us who, try as they might, seem to always get stuck in stalemates, we've created the Decisively Indecisive award.
If you're going to take the trouble to do something, might as well do it the best you possibly can! 2015's most Decisively Indecisive member was willdeworde who logged 4 draws over 13 plays for a draw rate of 30.77%!
- Runner-up: richvalle, 3 draws over 10 plays, 30%
- Second Runner-up: Poor Yorek, 3 draws over 12 plays, 25%
Also known as the special award for taking different boxes down off the shelf, the Game Spice of Life is given to the member who plays the most different games in one year. Our 2015 winner is Matt W who played 25 different games this year!
- Runner-up: thomaso827, 23 games
- Second Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 20 games
thomaso827 captures his first Spice award this year having captained 20 different nations over the past year!
- Runner-up: Matt W led 18 nations
- Runner-up: Michael Murphy led 15 nations
Collecting his second Spice award this year, Unit Spice of Life goes to thomaso827! Over the past year he has led 437 different units into battle!
- Runner-up: Matt W, 436 units
- Second Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 382 units
Though you can do battle in Panzer Grenadier with as few as 7 counters, the veterans know that vast, sweeping battles are where the command and control system shines best.
Persian Warlord goes to the member who played the scenario with the largest counter total over the past year. This year's winner is CravenDumps35 who marshaled 327 units in Kursk - South Flank #31!
- Co-Runners-up: Hugmenot and Matt W, 281 units with Kursk - South Flank #34
And then there's the general who makes his enemies fight in the shade. Xerxes Reborn goes to the member who commanded the most total units over the course of the previous year. This award goes to thomaso827, who led 6,089 units into battle after battle!
- Runner-up: Matt W, 4,951 units
- Second Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 3,920 units
On one end of the spectrum, Panzer Grenadier offers a handful of battles that clock in at 105 minutes maximum. At the other end, the iron-grog can immerse himself in multi-day rampages. The Tireless Warrior award is given annually to the member who bagged the longest single scenario by turn total.
This year we honor dreierj who tackled the 199 turns for Afrika Korps #2!
- Runner-up: CravenDumps35, 195 turns in Guadalcanal #5
- Second Runner-up: Brett Nicholson, 145 turns in Guadalcanal #22
But when the dust settles and the battle has finished, the Tireless Warrior may rest, whereas the Tireless Campaigner must carry on until the last of his enemies are scattered to the four winds.
For logging the most total turns in battle over the past year with an exhausting 2,118 turns of death and destruction, thomaso827 is the 2015 Tireless Campaigner!
- Runner-up: CravenDumps35, 1,296 turns
- Second Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 1,252 turns
The Cinderella of our Annual Awards, the glorious honor that is LAST! is bestowed upon that user who recorded a play closest to midnight, 2015 June 5th.
This year's winner is dirk, who logged a play for Fall of France #36 at 01:04:53, June 5th. Congratulations buddy, you were LAST! in Year 5.