I’m going to start this out by letting everyone know that I’m still working on the 15 Year Anniversary Video but it’s a little behind. It should be up within a week though, and I’ll make a separate announcement for it. You can get a sneak peak of what to expect here (the video will be based on the events listed on that).

After a lot of bold and controversial decisions made at the end of 2018 involving a complete staff restructure, 2019 started out really strong. It slowed down a bit but I think that was just a temporary phase and I believe the site is on track to start growing again. 2018 was the rock bottom for the site and 2019 was the beginning of the gradual incline that follows.

2019 was also a really busy year as far as development goes. I said I would dedicate 2019 to working on features that benefit the forum and its community and that’s exactly what I did. I spent very little time working on the Retro Game Room and mainly focused on fixing, finishing and expanding things on the forum. The biggest project of course was Rebuilding the Entire Post System, which I think makes the forum worthy of a Vizzed Board 2.0 status? I also completely rebuilt the Private Message System from the ground up. Both of those projects were some of the biggest projects I’ve tackled in years but they weren’t the only forum related things I worked on.

I restructured the Log System which made the site more secure and faster, made a ton of different cosmetic updates (for example, Input Fields), developed a ‘Vizzed GO’ game as an April Fools prank that caught on and was kept, finally added a Post Quoting feature, made a New Memberlist page, made a New Active Users page, and so much more.

I did work on the Retro Game Room and Video Game Room a little though. I upgraded the version of RetroArch that we use countless times. I rebuilt the Game Editor to make the lives of the staff easier, I completely revamped the way Screenshots are handled and displayed, fixed the Game Streamers page, etc.

And then to some, the biggest thing that happened in 2019 was the Vizzed Minecraft Server Revival!

One of my more favorite features that I made was the Site Statistics page. It lets you see just about any type of statistic on the site with an endless amount of filters. All of the stats for the awards below were generated from that page (in previous years, I had to execute queries in the database) so be sure to click the ‘Source’ links to see those results in action.

Another big thing that happened in 2019. My Bomberman ’94 Tournament streak was finally broke by Foxyman1113! I had been the reigning champion for 5 years. Again, congrats Foxyman1113, it was nice to finally have that streak broken and it was well earned ????

Expect to see less features in 2020 compared to previous years but more involvement in the actual community. In 2020 I’ll be spending far less time doing development work on the site and far more time just being part of the community, which will include more posting, hosting more events, more streams with the members of the site, more PM reading, more Notification reading, and just more involvement with the community and staff in general.



Anyways, time for what everyone was waiting for…



AWARD CEREMONY

Like always, I’m going to start out by handing out my awards. This is something that I’ve been doing longer than the actual awards given out by the users. Most of these awards are based on statistics.

Awards by Davideo7

Generous member of the year: sonicmcmuffin
He donated $200 to the site in the past year!
2nd goes to litlbummer1 for donating $50
3rd goes to cid789 for donating $40.
Source

Most active member of the year: Furret
He made 2,015 posts! And that’s on top of everything else he’s done for the site over the past year.
2nd goes to tgags123 for making 1,978 posts
3rd goes to zanderlex for making 1,459 posts
Source

Wordiest member of the year: Furret
He typed up a total of 135,498 words over the past year.
2nd goes to tgags123 for typing 133,288 words
3rd goes to Davideo7, me, for typing 108,981 words
Source

Wealthiest member of the year: zanderlex
He’s earned around 4,504,318 Viz over the past year!
2nd goes to legacyme3 for earning more than 3,121,321 Viz
3rd goes to Furret for earning around 2,371,908 Viz
Source

Most Contribution Points: EX Palen
He earned 38,674 CP over the past year. This is the 2nd year in a row that he got 1st place in this category.
2nd goes to Furret for earning around 20,247 CP
3rd goes to no 8120 for earning around 15,878 CP

Most RGR 1st Place Scores in past year: Supermatt6534
He has earned 1st place in 126 games over the past year.
2nd goes to DarkPoet2013 with 16
3rd goes to nuggula1 with 14

Most RGR 1st Place Speedruns: jerryaberry
He has 1st place in 11 games.
2nd goes to ruanito with 6
3rd goes to Nickrj with 3









And now for the Member of the Year award....









Member of the Year: Furret
It was really hard to narrow it down to 1 user but I ultimately made a decision based on who I think invested the most time into Vizzed and things relating to Vizzed and that user I believe is Furret. If you look at the statistics, he’s present in almost every category. Beyond all of that though, he’s made himself available to me and many others and he’s been reliable and helpful in many areas of the site. And if the amount he’s done on the site wasn’t enough, he’s also invested a lot of time into the Vizzed Minecraft Server.

It’s going to be really hard to compete against him in the upcoming Admin election.

Now for the user awards that you guys voted on…









THE USER AWARDS
(thank you Furret and Minuano for tallying these up for me)

Most Famous - (someone who appears very well known and popular)
1st. Furret (5 votes)
2nd. legacyme3 (1 vote)
2nd. Q (1 vote)
All new people on this list compared to last year.

Most Creative - (someone who constantly displays creativeness)
1st. deggle (1 vote)
1st. lolid23 (1 vote)
1st. Totts (1 vote)
1st. pennylessz (1 vote)
1st. IgorBird122 (1 vote)
1st. Slyshiyoshi (1 vote)
How did Totts reappear on this list?

Most Helpful - (someone who goes out of their way to help others)
1st. Furret (2 votes)
1st. Minuano (2 votes)
3rd. EX Palen (1 vote)
3rd. Pennylessz (1 vote)
3rd. Snicklelove (1 vote)
3rd. TheSerpentLine (1 vote)
For 1st place, 1 is an admin and 1 is a global. Perhaps both should be admin?

Most Controversial - (someone who has a strong opinion on everything)
1st. Rayman85 (8 votes)
2nd. Sk1tzFr3n1k (2 votes)
3rd. Minuano (1 vote)
This site never lacks controbersy.

Most Mature - (someone who acts the most mature, no matter their age)
1st. m0ssb3rg935 (3 votes)
2nd. Minuano (1 vote)
2nd. EX Palen (1 vote)
2nd. TheSerpentLine (1 vote)
Lots of Globals/Admins, which is good.


Best Veteran - (someone who is active and registered 5 or more years ago)
1st. Furret (2 votes)
1st. Minuano (2 votes)
1st. pennylessz (2 votes)
1st. Sk1tzFr3n1k (2 votes)
5th. tRIUNE (1 vote)
5th. pennylessz (1 vote)
At this point, pretty much everyone qualifies for this category with the lack of new users over the past few years.

Best New Member - (someone who has registered in past year)
1st. fqur (4 votes)
2nd. Slyshiyoshi (3 votes)
3rd. zbak (1 vote)
At this point, pretty much no one qualifies for this category with the lack of new users over the past few years. Wait, we did have a few new users? Awesome

Best Non-Active Member - (someone who is no longer posting or rarely)
1st. Eirinn (3 votes)
2nd. Yuna1000 (2 votes)
2nd. Flippflopps (2 votes)
4th. geeogree (1 vote)
4th. EideticMemory (1 vote)
4th. scootheman (1 vote)
Scootheman hasn’t been on in 5 ½ years, EideticMemory 4 ½ years. Ironically, EideticMemory became his name.

Best Staff Member - (someone on the staff, site staff, local, global or admin)
1st. Minuano (5 votes)
2nd. EX Palen (2 votes)
2nd. m0ssb3rg935 (2 votes)
4th. Davideo7 (1 vote)
I can’t even get best staff member on my own site Totally kidding, this isn’t about me

Best Female Member - (someone who isn't male)
1st. Ema Skye (2 votes)
1st. Fyredove (2 votes)
1st. Eniitan (2 votes)
4th. fqur (1 vote)
4th. snicklelove (1 vote)
4th. MonaRetro (1 vote)
7th. legacyme3 (1 golden buzzer)
I like to think I get 1 vote, in the form of a golden buzzer, and I’m using it on legacyme3!


Wisest - (someone with great wisdom or gives good advice)
1st. Sk1tzFr3n1k (2 votes)
2nd. Light Knight (1 vote)
2nd. Davideo7 (1 vote)
2nd. On3On (1 vote)
2nd. zanderlex (1 vote)
2nd. Eniitan (1 vote)
Light Knight has been on this list quite a few times in the past.

Nicest - (someone who is nice to everyone)
1st. deggle (2 votes)
2nd. Furret (1 vote)
2nd. scootheman (1 vote)
2nd. Eniitan (1 vote)
2nd. Snicklelove (1 vote)
2nd. TheSerpentLine (1 vote)
2nd. IgorBird122 (1 vote)
Eniitan holds the record for most times appearing on this list.

Craziest - (someone who is not sane or normal)
1st. Rayman85 (3 votes)
2nd. Clovertheclever (2 votes)
3rd. Furret (1 vote)
It seems like only adults ever make this list lol.

Insomniac - (someone who is always on)
1st. Furret (2 votes)
1st. Davideo7 (2 votes)
1st. pennylessz (2 votes)
4th. SonicOlmstead (1 vote)
4th. Snowdeath (1 vote)
4th. kyleisawesome50 (1 vote)
Probably not something to be proud of Sleep is good

Meanest - (someone who is usually mean to people)
1st. Lord Zorgath (2 votes)
1st. Trexi Star (2 votes)
2nd. SugarPants (1 vote)
2nd. drag00n365 (1 vote)
2nd. Minuano (1 vote)
Excuse me while I hand out 5 bans. Just kidding.


Best Username - (someone you think has best username)
1st. TiggaStoleMyBike (2 votes)
2nd. DICKSLAPMOTHERf***ERS (1 vote)
2nd. Minuano (1 vote)
2nd. Pennylessz (1 vote)
2nd. Snicklelove (1 vote)
2nd. TheSerpentLine (1 vote)
Don’t you guys mean worst username?? At least for the first 2.

Best Userpic - (someone you think has best user picture)
1st. Sk1tzFr3n1k (2 votes)
2nd. SUX2BU (1 vote)
2nd. Merf (1 vote)
2nd. m0ssb3rg935 (1 vote)
2nd. Minuano (1 vote)
I think I deserve to share 2nd place with merf.

Best Layout - (someone you think has the best layout)
1st. pennylessz (2 votes)
2nd. IgorBird122 (1 vote)
A long lost art.

Best Posts - (someone you think makes the best posts)
1st. Rayman85 (1 vote)
1st. drag00n365 (1 vote)
Not a lot of posts to choose from in the past year?

Best Threads - (someone you think makes the best threads)
1st. Furret (1 vote)
1st. Minuano (1 vote)
We need more people in this category. These are the users who are going to make it possible to revive this community.


Netplayer - (someone you think is the toughest netplayer)
1st. Davideo7 (1 vote)
1st. Snicklelove (1 vote)
1st. TheSerpentLine (1 vote)
Foxyman deserves to be on this list.

Game Streamer - (someone who has the highest quality streams)
1st. Davideo7 (5 votes)
Trixz or Djinn could have also been placed on this list.

Reviewer - (someone who writes the best game reviews)
1st. lolid23 (4 votes)
2nd. Sk1tzFr3n1k (2 votes)
Sk1tzFr3n1k has never actually made a review…

Guide Maker - (someone who writes the best game guides)
1st. EX Palen (3 votes)
2nd. Laian (1 vote)
Making guides is one of the few things I haven’t done for the site. Would love to give it a shot one of these days.

Article Writer - (someone who writes the best game articles)
No votes ☹

THE THREAD AWARDS Please give links to the threads/posts you choose!

Greatest Thread - (the greatest thread in your opinion on vizzed)
pizza time (1 vote)
The person below me (1 vote)
This Game Sucks! (1 vote)

Greatest Post - (single greatest post containing the best content or quote)
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=80774&ppp=100&page=0#1090638 (1 vote)
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102271&ppp=20&page=0#1374931 (1 vote)
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100951&ppp=100&page=0#1356777 (1 vote)

Funniest Thread - (most hilarious thread you've ever seen)
Please send this post to the Trash Can. (2 votes)
Corrupt-A-Wish! (1 vote)

Greatest Old Thread - (best thread older than 5 years)
so um goomy… (1 vote)
Would you rather… (1 vote)
I’m leaving Vizzed (1 vote)

Craziest Thread - (a thread that you think is absolutely not normal)
pizza time (2 votes)
Throw a random object at the user below you! (1 vote)

Best Review - (the best user submitted review on the site)
NieR:Automata (1 vote)
Cokemon – The most insulting hack of Pokemon I have ever played. (1 vote)

Best Guide - (the best user submitted guide on the site)
Frogger PSX Walkthrough: Part 1 (1 vote)
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Puzzle Solving Guide (1 vote)






I want to say thanks to everyone who has helped out vizzed board over the past 15years! I also want to thank the staff, both the current and former staff members who have helped the site become what it is today! I'm hoping everyone sticks around and helps revive this community

Feeling nostalgic? Here are some links to Vizzed Award threads from previous years:
2018 (14 year)
2017 (13 year)
2016 (12 year)
2015 (11 year)
2014 (10 year)
2013 (9 year)
2012 (8 year)
2011 (7 year)
2010 (6 year)
2009 (5 year)
2008 (4 year)
2007 (3 year)
We didn't do awards for the first 2 years of this Vizzed Board but we did do mid year awards for 2005 as seen here.



Happy 15 Year Anniversary, I hope to see you all here next year

I was kinda expected getting a vote in Creative and Layout, but quite shock that I was one of the nicest one on here.

Anyways, good luck on whoever gets awards in 2020.

MARK MY WORDS, DA DEMON BIRD WILL BE TAKING ALL DA 2020 AWARDS, AND TAKE THAT MEMEBAR OF DA YEAR 2020, MWAAAAAA!!!!

Wow I wasnt really expected to be voted for this year. another reason I may not be active on vizzed so is that I dont get voted in for the award. I want new people or others who never have been voted to win most nicest instead of me. but either way I will still be voted by someone regardless. Congrats to those who won the awards!

Probably the first time I've ever received a vote in this. I guess I've always just been buried under bigger names, and those with the charisma to fill a chat room. That tally wasn't perfect though, I believe some of drag00n365's votes weren't counted, and my scootheman vote went to the wrong category.

Regardless, I plan to be more active in 2020. I want you to know David, that I'm here for this site until the very end, let's hope things take a sharp turn upwards from here.

Here's to 15 years! Of which I've seen nearly ten.

i believe some of my votes were missed or misscounted, probably because my layout forced the votes onto a second row. most of them arent that big a deal but you missed the most important one:

best lover:
Vanelan :

Well at least I got 1st in one category, haha.

I'll try my best to keep active unlike I had before in prior years, hoping to see the community grow again.

Going into this year I would've never seen this coming, and I think I said that in last years thread as well.

2019 hasn't been the kindest to me IRL and by putting a good amount of time into Vizzed and the community I've been able to convert a lot of negative energy into something positive. The staff overhaul was controversial but I've really enjoyed working with the whole crew, including the originals who have since left as well as the recent hires.

David, I hope you're right and that we see a gradual increase in activity. I'm proud of what I've achieved on here this year but I really hope someone new just takes off and blows my numbers out the water in 2020.

Wow, never thought I had amassed so many CP this year. My staff roles surely helped, but I didn't think it'd be such a big gap with the rest.

I'm also amazed to have received votes in so many categories. I knew I'd get votes for Guide Writer as always, but winning it is still special. And being mentioned for best staff member, considering the team I've had above me, is flattering. Things like this surely keep your motivation up, not because they feed your ego, but because you see the impact your actions cause in the community.

I'll try to keep my head up for 2020. Many changes will happen in real life, though I still want to stay in this place because it truly helps me in more than one way. Let's start the decade with a bang!

Why yes, David, I am the best female. Thank you for the golden buzzer. It's almost like winning Member of the Year because I get hand picked!

Congratulations on 15 years, Vizzed.

Congratulations on the 15 years! Here's to there being even more years ahead for it too.