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.

[Anonymous]

Hello Pooners,

I vote for Russel Sharp as Pooner 2008 and for Jesse Spears as lifetime Pooner.

Russel has done a lot to make the turnaround regarding ANW´s quality possible. He listens to the players and always displays an gentlemanlike attitude.

As to Jesse Spears: Look what Tony has written; nothing to add.

Best Regards,
Ralf

[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]

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[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....

[jpkoester1]

Hi everyone,

I second Ralfs idea and vote for Russel Sharp for Pooner of the year and for Jesse Spears for lifetime pooner.

Cheers,
JP

[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

[hermanhum]

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

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to Freek and Jesse ! Both of you really have deserved the award.

Ralf

[FreekS]

Even in a small community of harpooners, I consider it an honour to have been singled out as someone who made a significant contribution to the game in 2008!
 
I have immensely enjoyed playing Harpoon in 2008 - especially in Multi-Player mode. I've also enjoyed writing scens, and figuring out how to make them hard to beat. I'm glad that players seem to enjoy them.
 
Harpoon is a collaborative effort by the programmers, database maintainers, scen designers and testers, and players and I think 2008 has shown better cooperation than prior years, with better results for all.
Any change to the game has consequences for the way that the hundreds of scenarios that players can choose from play out. Only excellent communication between all parties will lead to new features that add to the players fun and have minimal (or at least well understood) consequences in terms of necessary changes to Databases and Scenario's.
 
Thanks to all voters and I wish you all a lot of harpoon-fun in 2009!
 
Freek

[kipallen]

Freek and Jesse:

Congratulations on your selection and my personal heartfelt thanks for all you've done to keep Harpoon alive and growing!