Vote now for the 2008 Pooners!

[TonyE]

HarpoonPages invites you to participate in the 12th Annual Pooner Vote.

Congratulations again to the 2007 Pooner Ralf Koelbach.

To vote and view the past winners, visit http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php.

!!!Please note that you can vote for anyone who hasn't previously won, even if they aren't listed as having been voted for yet this year!!!

If you have any difficulties voting, send an e-mail to pooner@harpoonpages.com with your name, e-mail address, and your vote for Pooner and I will enter them manually.

Please post this message on any forum/list/newsgroup where Harpoon players reside so that we can bring in as many votes and kudos as possible to those who sustain Harpoon.

As always the real reward is for the potential Pooner to be talked up on the forums and mailing lists so heap on the praise here publicly!

[TonyE]

Thank you to everyone playing and helping in the Harpoon effort this year.  The HCE beta testers have done yeoman work this year and one of them just barely escaped me voting for him. 
 
My votes this year have to go the way of H3.
 
My choice for 2008 Pooner is Freek Schepers for his continued scenario design efforts, not to mention playing a few MP games and generally staying above the nastiness while still providing feedback on the game.
 
For liftetime Pooner my nod goes to Jesse Spears.  While he hasn't been active for a while now his efforts turning H2 into H3 may have singlehandedly kept the Harpoon computer games alive, HC included!  Yes he had much help but without him I doubt there would be a H3ANW nor HCE.  I haven't forgotten that he worked on H2 itself either!
 

[hermanhum]

I'm nominating Freek Schepers for the Harpoonist's Lifetime award for his undying contribution to Harpoon3 scenario design, willingness to play others head-to-head, hosting his own ANW MP server for the benefit of other players, and bug finding talents.

I nominate Jeronimo Chiecchio as the Harpoonist of the Year for providing the community with an invaluable via his ANW MP server.  Without this server, there would be no MP play, whatsoever.

[CV32]

That time again ...

My vote for the the 2008 Pooner goes to Freek Schepers, whom, as previously mentioned by Tony, has been able to keep producing new scenarios for H3/ANW, stay active in the multi-player games, and stay out of the bickering. (Which, I have to say, seems to have for the most part now thankfully departed from the scene). Way to go, Freek!

My vote for the Lifetime Pooner award has to go to Tony Eischens. Yes, I know full well that he's stated that he would like to steer clear of the awards, but I'm willing to risk his disdain because its about time.

Frankly, being the record keeper shouldn't in itself disqualify someone so truly qualified for the recognition. In fact, I believe its more proof of his dedication to this game than anything. Tony has worked tirelessly on the (often byzantine) code for HCE (and its predecessors); and for a very long time, maintained a server (at his own expense, time and effort) for the H3/ANW crowd to venture out onto the multi-player battlefield; and wrote the occasional scenario; and created his own database of uber cool, "what if" platforms (long live the Super Tomcat!); and made himself available to answer, address or otherwise tackle head on every question, query, quirk and nuance that we've ever had about how this game works.

What more can I say, I think Tony deserves the Lifetime Pooner bar none. I think we're all mature enough to know that if he truly deserves it, the mere fact that he keeps the records shouldn't keep him from that recognition. (And, besides, we won't have to go through this tortuous process again next year!)

[FransKoenz]

Pooner of the year/lifetime Pooner
 
I have nominated Freek Schepers as pooner of 2008.
I admire his scenarios and am very happy with his server that makes it possible to play ANW-MP online.
 
I have choosen for Tony Eischens as lifetime Pooner!
Notwithstanding Tony's request not to nominate him for the Award, I think he deserves the title for his contribution to HC[E]. Always willing to explain the inns and outs of HC. His modesty to exclude hime from the Yearly Pooner election is for me THE reason to nominate Tony for this award!!!
 
Greetings,
Frans [aka Taitennek]

[hermanhum]

What the heck are you and CV32 doing!?  The only year I don't nominate Tony Eischens for an award and you two guys do it at the same time.

Sorry, but you guys are two years too late.... [:D]

[noxious]

Yeah, not fair : I abided per his request
Voted for Herman Hum for Pooner of the Year, as he's done a lot, including offering MP matches of ANW to all newcomers, among many contributions that far outweigh his ''controversialness''

Jesse Spears for Lifetime, see TonyE`s post.

[hermanhum]

ORIGINAL: noxious

Voted for Herman Hum for Pooner of the Year, as he's done a lot, including offering MP matches of ANW to all newcomers, among many contributions that far outweigh his ''controversialness''

How dare you not vote the same way I voted?! [:@]

(Just part of my 'controversialityness') [;)]

[noxious]

See ?

[hermanhum]

Here's some more 'controversialousness'...

I go to the Harpoon Award voting site (http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/ ... e8491b64fd) and see that the votes cast by CV32 and Taitennek for Tony Eischens have mysteriously disappeared!  Outrageous.  [X(]

Looks like the Harpoon electoral office purchased the same voting machines used by the State of Florida.  [:(]

P.s.  Who the heck is BB-67?  Is it the secret code name for TonyE?

[TonyE]

shh Herman, at least I have full documentation of my not clever enough tampering [:)]

[hermanhum]

So, in the face of this "obvious gerrymandering",  the question remains,

Who is BB-67?

[CV32]

ORIGINAL: hermanhum
Who is BB-67?

USS Montana? [:D]

[TonyE]

Come vote everyone, you don't have to be a longtime player.  This is the premier award of the Harpoon community [:)] so lots of votes are better than a few votes from the old timers [8|]
 
http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php
 

[hermanhum]

Okay, it's been confirmed.  Tony "Hanging Chad" Eischens is BB-67. 

Vote for him and force him to accept his coronation, once and for all time.

[TonyE]

While all of you have been watching football, I've been tracking down people who didn't finish the voting process.  For all of those who haven't voted yet, now is the time, only 2.5 days left!
 
http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php

[TonyE]

Congratulations to the Lifetime Pooner inductee Jesse Spears!
Congratulations to the 2008 Pooner Freek Schepers!
Thank you to everyone who voted.


Results (% of votes):
35% Freek Schepers
29% Russell Sharp
18% Herman Hum
11% AoA

[CV32]

Congratulations, Freek and Jesse. Well deserved. [8D]

[hermanhum]

Now Freek can prove himself worthy of the award by releasing 30 new scens in the next 30 days...