The results of the 5th Annual Trade Wars 2002 Awards have been in and now they are posted. I apologize for taking so long but I time has been short lately.

I would like to say that I am very pleased with the results of this years awards, maybe a little disappointed with the number of votes but other then that I was very satisfied with the results.

It was a very close race in most categories with the order of the winners decided in the last few days of voting. There are some new names as well as many familiar ones, but I would like to congratulate all of the nominees, and thank everyone who participated.

Because it's an Olympic year I decided to list the top 3 in each category on the winners page (normally it's only the winner and runner-up) so on the results page the winner is colored in GOLD, 1st runner-up in SILVER and 2nd runner-up in BRONZE...

The permanent home for the awards page will be at The War Room @
http://www.cyber-svcs.com/portal_content.asp

All the winners from the 1st 5 awards will be posted on the page.

The awards graphics will be sent out in the next few days if you are a winner and I don't have your email address please send me it to: Gypsy@tradewars.homeip.net

So with that I give you the results of the 5th Annual Trade Wars 2002 Awards,


1. BEST OVERALL PLAYER **
Xide
Prestone
hELLCAT

2. BEST CEO
Prestone
Isis
Xide

3. BEST RED PLAYER
Prestone
Chaotic
Xide

4. BEST BLUE PLAYER
Speedy
Xide
Isis

5. BEST TEAM PLAYER
Speedy
Fenix
Bad Girl

6. BEST CORPORATION
GoodGuys
Xel'Naga
Boo! Inc. / TWA(tie)

7. BEST KILLER
hELLCAT
Xide
Turok

8. BEST FARMER
Father Cajone
Isis
White Knight

9. BEST STRATEGIC PLAYER
Xide
Prestone
Isis

10. BEST SOLO PLAYER
hELLCAT
Xide
Prestone / Zoobar (tie)

11. MOST IMPROVED PLAYER
Kemper3
Turok
Res Judicata

12. BEST NEW PLAYER
Res Judicata
Sweet Little Girl
Renato

13. BEST OVERALL SERVER
Hard Coded
The Stardock
Uncharted Space

14. BEST TOURNAMENT
USO
TW Chess
BOTE

15. BEST GAME (EDITED)
TW Chess
Red Alert by Fuseblown
HHT

16. BEST GAME (CLASSIC)
WTC
BOTE
Stardock Classic

17. BEST GAME (FUN)
TW Chess
BOTE
HHT

18. BEST SYSOP / GAMEOP
Silver Dragon
Eleqtriz'T
G.O.P

19. BEST WEBSITE OVERALL
Trade Wars Gazette
The Stardock / Home Sector
Planet TW

20. BEST WEBSITE - INFO / NEWS
Trade Wars Gazette
The Stardock / Home Sector
Planet TW

21. MOST ARTISTIC WEBSITE
The Stardock / Home Sector
Trade Wars Gazette
Alienbase / Public @ Large (tie)

22. BEST WEBSITE - FUNCTIONALITY
Eis Online / The Stardock / Home Sector / Micros TW2002 List (tie)
TWLINKS
Planet TW

23. BEST WEBSITE - COMEDY
TRADERWARS.ORG
Trade Wars Gazette
Boo! Inc.

24. BEST TRADE WARS FORUM
The Official Trade Wars 2002 Support Forums (eisonline.com)
Tradewars_2002 Yahoo Group
Goosemoose.com

25. BEST HELPER OR SCRIPTS - OVERALL
Swath
TWX Proxy
J-Twat / Zoc Scripts (tie)

26. BEST HELPER OR SCRIPTS - EVIL
TWX Proxy
Swath
Zoc Scripts

27. BEST HELPER OR SCRIPTS - GOOD
TWX Proxy
Swath
Zoc Scripts

28. BEST HELPER OR SCRIPTS - ZTM
Swath
TWX Proxy
J-Twat

29. HALL OF FAME
Guardian
Rick Mead / Gypsy
Space Ghost

30. FEDCOM TRASH TALK
Epicenter
Bud
Res Judicata

31. BEST SCRIPTER
Xide
the reverend
Space Ghost

32. BEST SCRIPT WRITER / PROGRAMER
the reverend
Xide
Nazwes Chaiwind

33. BEST TEACHER
Guardian
Hekate
Res Judicata


** The database "lost" this category day 1 of the awards (before it was upgraded) because of this loss the category was not able to complete voting. Rather then not give away this award it was decided that the votes for the top 3 winners in each player skills category would added together and that total would determine the winner of the Overall Category. The categories used for this were: Best CEO, Best RED Player, Best BLUE Player, Best Team Player, Best Strategic Player, Best Killer and Best Solo

The Results are as follows:


Xide (75)
Prestone (49)
hELLCAT (42)
Isis (29)
Speedy (28)
Fenix (12)
Turok (11)
Chaotic (9)
Zoobar (7)
Bad Girl (6)