All of these annual awards are based on what we call the PG-HQ Year, in this case - Year 13 - all activity from June 6th 2022 to June 5th 2023, 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!
At 16:26:56 on 2022 June 6th, U.S Central Time, joe_oppenheimer added the first play of PG-HQ's thirteenth year. Congratulations, you and your play for Airborne #9 were FIRST! in Year 13.
Congratulations treadasaurusrex! Competition was especially fierce this year, but you out-battled the competition to claim 2023 Player of the Year honors with 200 plays logged!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 137 plays
Most of us play solo, but PG is a dish best shared with friends! Congratulations to repeat winner treadasaurusrex with 186 shared plays, smashing his previous record!
- Runner-up: Tambu, 32 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. Congratulations again to treadasaurusrex! Your 129 AARs made PG-HQ a better place in 2023!
- Runner-up: Juiceman (again), 122 AARs - so close!
They just go on and on and on! Hopefully it's all worth reading in the end!
The 2023 winner is Capt. Chaos, who averaged 664 words per AAR over 6 AARs!
- Runner-up: goosebrown (again), 589 words per AAR over 7 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 2023, and therefore the member who most readily got to the point, was Grognard Gunny, who averaged a miserly 69 words per AAR over 45 AARs!
- Runner-up: Dan_Huffman, 120 words per AAR over 7 AARs
Easy to Please goes to the member with the highest average scenario rating over the past year. 2023's most perpetually satisfied member is again thomaso827 with an average rating of 4.41 over 22 scenario ratings. thomaso827, you are officially this year's World's Biggest PG Fan!
- Runner-up: TFGA73 averaged 4.18 over 17 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!
2023's most perpetually dissatisfied member was Tambu with an average rating of 2.36 over 33 ratings. They have now "won" this award two years in a row, albeit with a slightly higher level of satisfaction this year. Someone please recommend our comrade some better scenarios to play!
- Runner-up: Tubac52 averaged 2.44 over 32 ratings
The Bounty Master award goes to the member with the highest bounty total for the year. This year's winner is Juiceman, who claimed a peerless 57,912 points over 265 bounties.
- Runner-up: treadasaurusrex, 52,840 points over 379 bounties
The Bounty Sniper award goes to the member with the highest bounty average. This year's winner is Juiceman, who averaged 218.54 points over 265 bounties. Great job defending your championship and filling in the most needed data, Juiceman!
- Runner-up: Dan_Huffman, 189.30 points per bounty over 20 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 Juiceman, who bagged 559 points with their play & AAR set for Peace in Our Time #5.
- Runner-up: Juiceman, who occupied at least the next 10 slots in the ranking. I gave up calculating it. Comrade Juiceman's dedication to playing rare scenarios is unparalleled.
"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! 2023's most Decisively Indecisive members were waynebaumber and Dan_Huffman with 4 draws over 9 plays for a draw rate of 44.4%!
- Runner-up: Sonora, 7 draws over 19 plays, 36.8%
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 2023 repeat winner is treadasaurusrex who played 29 different games this year!
- Runners-up: Blackcloud6 and Juiceman, 16 games
Who captained the most different nations in 2023? treadasaurusrex with 19 nations played this year!
- Runner-up: JayTownsend who led 15 nations
Unit Spice of Life goes to treadasaurusrex! Over the past year they have led 503 different units into battle!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 438 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 again Juiceman, who marshaled an astonishing 453 units in Peace in Our Time #5!
- Runner-up: triangular_cube, 397 units in Tank Battles #23
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 treadasaurusrex, who led 13,691 units into battle after battle!
- Runner-up: Juiceman, 12,318 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 themselves 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 Grognard Gunny who tackled the 199 turns for Afrika Korps #2!
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 120 turns in Guadalcanal #16
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 their enemies are scattered to the four winds.
For logging the most total turns in battle over the past year with an exhausting 4,153 turns of death and destruction, treadasaurusrex is the 2023 Tireless Campaigner!
- Runner-up: triangular_cube, 3,211 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, 2023 June 5th.
This year's winner is Sonora, who logged a play for Desert Rats #36 at 21:39:37, June 5th. Congratulations, you were LAST! in Year 13.
In Conclusion
With an absolutely astonishing 8 awards, this was truly the Year of treadasaurusrex! We may never again witness such utter domination on the battlefield!
See you all next year!