Congratulations to all the winners! :)

I added the tag "quake_awards_2018_winner" for the Quaddicted entries that include winning maps. I elaborated the winning category and, if it was a jam, the winning map and author in the comments section.

Unless most people disagree, I think the database needn't be cluttered with tags/comments for the runners up, let alone honorable mentions. 

Well I must say its an honor to be chosen as a category winner for the first and hopefully many more to come, Quake awards. I knew it would be the oddball category considering almost each map in Ter Shibboleth is very odd by Quake standards, though the map that was chosen surprised me.

If a vote was cast to ask what the players favorite map would be in the pack, they would probably say shib4. When the episode was released I was almost assured of myself that shib4 would be looked down upon least favorably, that or shib1. This isn't because I half-assed the map or didn't put as much effort into it as the others, but it was in my eyes more of a filler map that would lead up to the big finale of shib5.

Seeing the reactions and how most of the community favors shib4 when I thought they wouldn't, tells me what? That maybe in the overall scheme of things I truly don't know what makes a Quake map good or not in the eyes of the players. I thought for sure Blastocyst would be the clear winner for oddball, its just such a startling revelation for me. But a pleasant one nonetheless!

And of course congratulations to all the winners and runner ups :) Don't skip playing a map just cause its a runner up! 

I added the tag "quake_awards_2018_winner" for the Quaddicted entries that include winning maps.
Good call, Esrael!

I knew it would be the oddball category considering almost each map in Ter Shibboleth is very odd
Well, you do have a tendency of making very odd maps, Orl. That's precisely what I love about your work. I still have quite fond memories of Cataractnacon/Zeangala despite them being very tough. 

I got the idea for the tagging from otp tagging maps with the tag planetquake-map-of-the-week a little while back. I might not have come up with the idea if it weren't for those tags. 

Congrats to all! I hope to see many more in the future! 

fond memories of Cataractnacon

That sight of one level on the other level is very inspiring. I love strange risky things like this level. 

Thanks to all the judges and organizers, this turned out really well. Each of the winners was deserving I think. 

For the content created for the website, discovering good maps to newcomers, performing interesting interviews, etc. 

Good celebration of some great Quaking. 

I forgot those! Thanks mgtroyas for reminding me... 

"Sans Domicile Fixe"

Is this spam or something? 

Hey was the intent to have a separate thread for debrief/postmortem/feedback stuff? 

I'll pop that stuff in the discussion thread, thanks for the reminder about it :) 

WOW! I can't believe I was nominated, let alone won. You guys are awesome :D. I have a big dumb smile on my face and this totally made my day. Thanks Func and fellow Quakers for being so nice and playing my maps! I gotta come back and do some more maps sometime soon! 

Well deserved and YES make more Quake!! :) 

I think most modern mappers forget the gameplay of the original game but your maps have definitely embraced classic Quake.