Vote now for the 2006 Pooners!

[Flankerk]

Looking back through Frans, I can only see the generic reference used to koko's. Tony confirmed that such were welcome at Harpgamer etc and included you in the category. He further indicated why, with your views on the US and events in World War Two. I assume this relates to the racist posts that you use with a certain frequency.
 
Were you asking for Tony to be banned as a result? [8D]
 

[FransKoenz]

Were you asking for Tony to be banned as a result? [8D]

Tony???????[&:]

When there is one person who should be banned, it is Ragnar Emsoy!!!!![:@]

[TonyE]

Come on out and vote, the 15th marks the half-way point calendar-wise of the 2006 voting for Pooner.  Please come recognize those who you think have most contributed to Harpoon this year.  Start the voting process at:
http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php

If you have any difficulty, contact me at pooner@harpoonpages.com.  There are three votes in progress (verification e-mail went out but vote wasn't concluded).  I will e-mail the three of you tomorrow in hopes that we can get those votes entered. 

Speaking of voting, it is a great thing to talk up your choices as some have done here.  I went thru the HULL archives for the last 4+ years looking at the Pooner vote and read some amazing endorsements along with Pooner votes.  It frankly makes me miss Bruce Fenster around Harpoon all that much more.

And speaking of thanks, the dually signed copy of Red Storm Rising has returned from Larry Bond's abode and now features both the Clancy and Bond signatures.  This baby will go out to the 2006 Pooner winner!!!  My thanks to Mr. Bond for adding his signature and endorsement to this 10th year of the Pooner awards.

[FreekS]

For 2006 I voted for Jan-Paul Koster also. His bug-finding efforts - and his willingness to listen to all sides of the community must have been the cause of a lot of bug fixes between 3.7.0 and 3.7.x.

For lifetimer award I nominate Herman who through his own style has contributed many good scens, bug reports, brought in new players and has for years been willing to test any scen thrown at him; oh yes and of course the LIFETIME BEST POETIC AAR: "charge of the light brigade" - maybe someone can post a link here - I could not find it anymore.

Freek

[TonyE]

Thanks Freek!  Three more days of voting, it is now or never and your last reminder as well.  Head on over to http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php, place your vote, then talk up your choices back here.  As always, if you have trouble voting, contact me at pooner@harpoonpages.com and we'll get your vote entered manually if need be.  Thanks for voting!

[Bucks]

I wont make any comments etc just let people know I have full confidence in Tony's system after having just used it.

I've voted for Dale Hillier for the '06 Pooner award and Darrel Dearing for a lifetime award. Dale's been involved in computer Harpoon for longer than I can remember and has always been part of our community in a contributory way without a hidden agenda. I almost feel like asking people to vote for him after so many years of service to the game and little mainstream recognition.

I had not know Darrel Dearing until I became part of Team Harpoon and I personally believe he deserves a lifetime award for his work on the present incarnation of Harpoon3ANW. Darrel's been willing to listen and has really made an effort to get the game to where we as users want it, cheers Darrel.

That wasn't hard and I didn't even have to "dis" anyone...

Cheers

Darren

[Bucks]

I'm disappointed to say the least that so far there are hardly any votes that have been registered. I won this award many years back, but I know when I did there were close to 700 votes cast. So far we have a great deal less than even a pultry 100 votes.

So I'm going to run a Vote for Dale Hillier campaign.

Anybody who hasn't voted so far please take the opportunity in the next few hours to visit Tony's site and cast your vote. If you can't decide who to vote for no worries, just follow these easy instructions:

2006 Pooner Award - Dale Hillier

Lifetime Pooner Award - Darrel Dearing

Hey so you don't agree? Good, at least vote me down and make the "Pooner", the award it used to be.

I also want to make clear that I can vouch for the voting system and believe that if we wish to continue as a community then recogition of individuals' efforts should be a permanent part of what we do.

Thanks

Darren Buckley

[Anonymous]

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[TonyE]

Congratulations to the 2006 Pooner Jan-Paul Köster and Lifetime Pooner Darrel Dearing!
Thank you to everyone who voted.


Results (% of votes):
35% JPK
23% Dale Hillier
15% Freek Schepers
11% Dimitris Dranidis aka Sunburn
11% Herman Hum


Results (% of votes):
35% Darrel Dearing
23% Herman Hum
19% Dimitris Dranidis aka Sunburn
11% Darren Buckley

The Clancy and Bond signed RSR will go out to JPK when he returns from holiday. See images of the gem at:
RSR Image 1
RSR Image 2
RSR Image 3

The Bond and Carlson signed Dangerous Ground will go out to Darrel asap.

Thanks again to Larry Bond for his signature and Dangerous Ground, and to Brad Leyte for sharing the initial cost of RSR and shipping these books all over creation!

[Bucks]

Congratulations to these worthy winners. Well done Gentlemen.

Sincerely

Darren Buckley

[CV32]

Congratulations to the winners. Well deserved. Hope you enjoy those very nice prizes. (And a special thanks to Tony for going above and beyond in keeping the community's Pooner awards very much alive and well. Great job !)

[FreekS]

Same here! Been playing for hours again in 3.7.3 to qualify another of my old scens and I'm glad there are people who will stick with it to make it better.! Freek