Yes, it's this time of the year again - when all the time you have spent on designing levels and customising tilesets suddenly pays off...

You are strongly recommended, but not limited, to vote for one of the nominations in each category below:


2007's best JCS'er:

• Birdie - Ice Cream Island, DarkMatch, Substracted Space, MULCH
• BlurredD - One Up, Desolation
• DarkSonic (aka da man) - Impressions, Heated Pipelines, Caves of the Arabic Ninja, Impressions Z
• Hitch - Daring Rebels, Memories
• PurpleJazz - Beach +, Forest Chamber, Royal Rainforest, Planet X, Sub-terrestrial v1.1

2007's best level pack:

• Agony by P4ul
• New Ages II - Tale of a Snooze by Snooze
• One Up by BlurredD
• Substracted Space by Birdie
• The Battle for Carrotus by EvilMike

2007's best CTF level:

• Demon Rampart by P4ul
• Extraterrestrials by Sacrush
• Fluid Surface Oscillator by Birdie
• Toxin Twister by Cooba
• Unconventional Coffee by FireSworD

2007's best (non-CTF) level:

• Castle Manor by Chazz_Jackrabbit
• DarkMatch by Birdie
• Foreign Country by Past of Leveldesign
• Neobeo's Firetruck by Neobeo
• Sandstone Ruins by Quickz
• The Warden Woods by Cooba

2007's best tileset/tileset conversion:

• Beach + by PurpleJazz
• Carrotus Fix 1.5 by zapS
• Desolation by BlurredD
• Mediv2o by Cooba
• Rayman 1 - Forest by Past of Leveldesign

2007's best music:

• A Prisoner Out (Chameleon World remix) by DoubleGJ (aka JSZ Jazz)
• Crysilis World 2 by Dr. Eggman
• Rain Chorus by Danyjel

Levelmaker

BlurredD (MULCH quite changed my mind)

Level pack

NA II - ToaS

CTF level

Unconventional Coffee

non-CTF level

Neobeo's Firetruck (I just remembered this one was something special)

Tileset

Desolation

Music

N/A

JCS'er

BlurredD

Level Pack

The Battle for Carrotus

CTF

Extraterrestrials

non-CTF

Neobeo's Firetruck

Tileset

Desolation

Music

N/A

JCSer: DarkSonic

Level pack: OneUp by Blur

Best CTF Level: Unconventional Coffee by FireSworD

Best non-CTF Level: Neobeo's Firetruck by Neobeo

Tileset: Desolation by Blur

Music: N/A

Best designer: BlurredD
Best pack: The Battle For Carrotus
Best CTF: Toxin Twister
Best non-CTF: Apocalyptic End
Best tileset: Desolation
Best music: A Prisoner Out

k thx :D

2007's best JCS'er: DarkSonic (aka da man) - Impressions, Heated Pipelines, Caves of the Arabic

2007's best level pack: Substracted Space by Birdie

2007's best CTF level: Unconventional Coffee by FireSworD

2007's best (non-CTF) level: The Warden Woods by Cooba

2007's best tileset/tileset conversion: Mediv2o by Cooba

JCSer: BlurredD

Level pack: The Battle for Carrotus

CTF Level: Unconventional Coffee

Non-CTF Level: Neobeo's Firetruck

Tileset: Rayman 1 - Forest

Music: A Prisoner Out (Chameleon World remix)

JCSer- BlurredD
Level Pack- The Battle for Carrotus
Non-CTF Level- Castle Manor
Tileset- Rayman 1 - forest
Music- A prisoner out

2007's best JCS'er: Birdie

He made some great levels and a great pack. BlurredD made a tileset that'll most likely win the best tileset award, and a pack with some great levels but a few worse ones. One Up is a bit too overrated in my opinion. PurpleJazz could have had a chance if he had finished Legends, but unfortunately he couldn't finish it on time.

Best level pack: New Ages II - Tale of a Snooze by Snooze

This is a pack not everyone likes, but I think that it has some great levels that should be played more. The other packs can't be called bad at all, 4 of the 5 nominations have been featured downloads and I'm voting for the one that didn't get featured.

2007's best CTF level: Unconventional Coffee by FireSworD

It won a contest and it's better than the other nominations.

2007's best (non-CTF) level: The Warden Woods by Cooba

4 out of 6 nominations were made for the Battle Contest, and the one that got 2nd gets my vote. Neobeo's Firetruck was good, but I'm just voting for a Battle level. Panic!

2007's best tileset/tileset conversion: Desolation by BlurredD

There is not much to say here. Only bad side is that the tileset will be overused soon.

2007's best music: A Prisoner Out (Chameleon World remix) by DoubleGJ (aka JSZ Jazz)

No comment.

What to expect from 2008: Collaboration levels for cooba's contest, more great levels and packs like New Ages III, great tilesets like Castle of Cadavers, and Impressions ع, the third pack from the Impressions series that'll hopefully beat Impressions and Impressions Z.

2007's best JCS'er: Birdie

Best level pack: One Up by BlurredD

2007's best CTF level: Fluid Surface Oscillator by Birdie

2007's best (non-CTF) level: Neobeo's Firetruck by Neobeo

2007's best tileset/tileset conversion: Desolation by BlurredD

2007's best music: Rain Chorus by Danyjel

* 2007's best JCS'er: (none)

* 2007's best level pack: The Battle for Carrotus by EvilMike

* 2007's best CTF level: Unconventional Coffee by FireSworD

* 2007's best (non-CTF) level: The Warden Woods by Cooba

* 2007's best tileset/tileset conversion: Beach + by PurpleJazz

* 2007's best music: Rain Chorus by Danyjel

I haven't had enough time to check out EVERYTHING this year, but anyways..

2007's best JCS'er:

• Normally I'd vote for Cooba, my favorite active level maker, but he didn't release many things this year (even though everything he *did* release was top-notch) so I'm going with Birdie here for making a lot of quality levels that are also always fun and unique..

2007's best level pack:

• I don't care for SP but everyone always says Mike's packs are great so I check them out.. The Battle for Carrotus was the worst pack out of the three but it's still pretty good... however definitely does not deserve the hype it gets. New Ages was great (well at least the last 2 or 3 levels), by far the best thing uploaded in 2006... but the sequel wasn't even half as good. Barely even one GREAT level. The biggest disappointent in 2007 for me.
  
  Anyway my vote goes to One Up. Not the greatest levels by Blur ever, but still good enough to make the best pack uploaded this year..

2007's best CTF level:

• Toxin Twister. It's quite sad there are not many people who appreciate this level... some may say it's not all that great, and I agree there.. it's not GREAT, it's just.. cool. Seriously, you people play utter crap like JE and GW......... just play Toxin Twister instead.

2007's best non-CTF level:

• (What's the deal with Neobeo's Firetruck?..)
  
  DarkMatch - Pwns. It was definitive from the moment I saw it. I knew there'd be nothing better this year. No one is going to vote for it but THIS is the best level of 2007.

2007's best music:

• Crysilis World 2

Originally Posted by R3ptile

Cooba, my favorite active level maker

2007's best JCS'er: Gus
2007's best level pack: The Battle for Carrotus by EvilMike
2007's best CTF level:
2007's best (non-CTF) level: Foreign Country
2007's best tileset/tileset conversion: Rayman 1 Forest
2007's best music: Crysilis World 2 by Luigi Elettrico

I did not vote in those categories that, in my opinion, have nothing worthy of an award uploaded this year.

JCS'er
- Darksonic

Level Pack
- New Ages II

CTF Level
- Extraterrestrials

Non CTF
- Warden Woods

Tileset
- Desolation

Music
N/A

Originally Posted by Birdie

Are we permitted to vote for ourselfs, or one of our levels?

Yes, if you insist.

Cooba already did :P

Originally Posted by R3ptile

however definitely does not deserve the hype it gets.

I agree, but considering its the only single player pack up there (also quite decent to boot) and I tend to only play single player levels my only other choice would be not voting, and that choice would do a great disservice to my silent "Moar SP plz" protest.

You can vote for uploads not in the nominees list.

which "cooba already did", by the way.

True but also none of the other single player packs were as great as The Battle for Carrotus. Its really easy to vote for Halo 3 when theres no Call of Duty 4 or Bioshock.

2007's best JCS'er: Ragnarok

• The quantity of levels that rag has released this year might not be so great, despite this the levels that he hasn't released, or hasn't quite finished are very awesome.

2007's best level pack: 1UP

• 1 Up seems to be the best option if I'm not going to vote for substracted space, which would be very biased.

2007's best CTF level: MULCH1!!!!! Toxin Twister

• A very nice level, even though it does suck abit to play in as jazz (which I do.) It's got no other real faults.

2007's best (non-CTF) level: DarkMatch

• Anyone who has played this (which happens to be very few D' would probably nominate it if they'd ever played a serious game in it.

2007's best tileset/tileset conversion: mediv2o

• Desolation is an apparent favorite among the voters, but desolation really isn't the easiest tileset to use well, if you've seen some of the recent levels using the tileset, you would know. So that's why I'm nominating mediv2o, an awesome tileset with almost all completely new stuff; This tileset really has a quake like feel to it, which makes it awesome.

2007's best music: I DONUT LISTEN TO THE MUSICS D:

• Unfortunately, I don't really listen to the music uploads often, so I can't really vote here.

Level maker of the year: DarkSonic, I'd say Birdie, Blur and Snz all deserve this as well, but I believe the production lines run in favor of DS.
He released two dammed good packs, the rest did one, so... DS it is.

Level pack of the year: New Ages II, again, I'd say 1up and SS both deserve this equally, but I'm a huge fan of Snz's levels and his pack definitely had the most eye-peeling eye-candy in combination with nice game-play in most levels. For instance "Dreaming..." is one of the best levels I've seen, and that is saying something.

CTF level of the year: Dreaming...
No other level this year even comes close.
But, if I'd have to choose from R3p's list, I'd choose "Unconventional Coffee", since it is definitely the best level overall. Although "Fluid Surface Oscillator", and "Extraterrestrials" have better eye-candy and "Toxin Twister" is a nice level too, I consider game play more important than eye-candy and thus the overall quality of Coffee separates it from the rest of the pack.
FS has done it again.

Best non-ctf level of the year: Caves of the Arabic Ninja, the immense size (for a battle level) that this level provides is just creamy. Eye-candy is sweet and game-play doesn't seem to be bad.

Best tileset, or tileset conversion: Desolation, the other sets/conversions are all good too, but there aren't many tilesets quite as good as Desolation. Good job Blur.

... And musics are a load of worthless crap, when you can listen to real, good music with a program such as WMA or Winamp.

2007's best JCS'er:

DarkSonic (aka da man)

2007's best CTF level:

Toxin Twister by Cooba

2007's best (non-CTF) level:

Neobeo's Firetruck by Neobeo

Originally Posted by St. Louis

... And musics are a load of worthless crap, when you can listen to real, good music with a program such as WMA or Winamp.

I'm not really following you here. Most music uploads lately were MP3's, and WinAmp also plays mods :P

• Best JCSer: BlurredD
• Best Levelpack: Battle for Carrotus
• Best CTF level: Toxin Twister
• Best Non-CTF level: The Warden Woods
• Best Tileset: Desolation
• Best Music: Crysilis World 2

Originally Posted by St. Louis

... And musics are a load of worthless crap, when you can listen to real, good music with a program such as WMA or Winamp.

There is no such thing as "real" music. That term makes little to no sense to begin with, and I personally cannot wrap my head how one would go around making fake music.

Levelmaker

DarkSonic

Level pack

The Battle for Carrotus

CTF level

Extraterrestrials

non-CTF level

Neobeo's Firetruck

Tileset

Desolation

Music

Rain Chorus

Originally Posted by St. Louis

... And musics are a load of worthless crap, when you can listen to real, good music with a program such as WMA or Winamp.

...As in songs by artists instead of pathetic, simple and plain techno and other beats that play as background music for some levels...

Originally Posted by St. Louis

...As in songs by artists instead of pathetic, simple and plain techno and other beats that play as background music for some levels...

You make it sound like you can just get a computer to randomly generate yourself some great music.

Originally Posted by Stijn

I did not vote in those categories that, in my opinion, have nothing worthy of an award uploaded this year.

Glad that you stated it's your opinion, because I see it as more of a lack of interest in Music/MP levels than 'worthy'.

Levelmaker - DarkSonic

Level Pack - The Battle for Carrotus

CTF Level - Toxin Twister

Non-CTF Level - The Warden Woods

Tileset - Desolation

Music - A Prisoner Out (Chameleon World remix)

Jcser = Birdie
level pack = evil mike
ctf = p4ul
non ctf=neobeo
best tileset= blurred (at least he made his :P)
best music = dr eggman

Originally Posted by St. Louis

...As in songs by artists instead of pathetic, simple and plain techno and other beats that play as background music for some levels...

Did you even listen to DoubleGJ's remix? Good God, next you'll be telling me all video game music is nothing but beeps and boops.

Originally Posted by FireSworD

Glad that you stated it's your opinion, because I see it as more of a lack of interest in Music/MP levels than 'worthy'.

Then you see it wrong. I have downloaded (and listened to) every music upload that was uploaded to J2O last year and played most (though, indeed, not all) released CTF levels. But no CTF levels that I'd regard as classic were uploaded, and for a leveltype that apparently deserves its own category that'd be my minimum requirement.

addendum: Oh wait, apparently Crysilis World 2 was uploaded in 2007, not 2006 as I originally thought. In that case, it gets my vote.

This is getting hilarious.

these awards are serious business

Here's my vote.

Best tileset: Desolation by BlurredD. One of my favourite tilesets ever, even though it's sort of new.

Best CTF: Unconventional Coffee by FireSword. This is just the kind of level FS is good at making. It might not be perfect, but it's really fun and I like it more than any of the other 2007 ctf levels I have played.

Originally Posted by Stijn

But no CTF levels that I'd regard as classic were uploaded, and for a leveltype that apparently deserves its own category that'd be my minimum requirement.

You hear that guys? Let's make more levels like DW, Semi and BBlair from now on!

Aw, now don't be so childish, please.

Woah, wait there, you actually made a judgement on my character?

Every vote in this topic carries some weight. It takes motivation to design good levels, and topics like theese help. If you don't care about ctf levels, then fine, but expect some questions if you call them 'unworthy' with such a vague explanation.

To react in such a way, you have made me laugh and I've lost respect for you.