RDEOT Awards

Summary

The CSM Really Dumb End of Tier Awards (RDEOTs), pronounced 'AR-DOT', is a set of highly prestigious awards handed out to players in recognition of outstanding achievement during the Tier.

The RDEOTs are distributed by the Editor in charge typically at the end of the Tier, however, this is not a requirement. The Editor in charge is self-nominated. No other requirements exist for the position. Any talent for the position is actively discouraged. (whom I kidding this dies as soon as I stop writing it)

Format

The RDEOTs follow a loose set of rules. They can be changed at any time and without notice.

1. RDEOTs are for fun.
2. Seriously, dont take them seriously.
3. The Editor in charge is whoever decides to run with it first. You don't need special permission.
4. The Editor in charge has the last say on all things.
5. Transparency is discouraged.
6. Nepotism and bribery are fair play.
7. Eligibility is determined by the Editor in charge, but probably should be someone who at least raids

Over the Years

Here lists the anointed and the disappointed for each year.

2020 v2

MVP

1. Moomkin
2. Heaton

New Kid on the Block / Rookie of the Tier

1. Thrali

DTF Plater

1. Killyn

Iconic Moment

1. Gankadin (Xymox)

TGOF

1. Missing Soaks on SLG

2020

Biggest Backpack (Carry)

1. ComicSans
2. Shimmer
3. Samjay

Best Companion for a 24 Hour Dominoes Stakeout (Shoots the shit)

1. Samjay Heaton Sermo
2. Kendoch Dunbaron

Finally read the tooltips (Most improved)

1. Diablo
2. Killyn

Thanks mom for packing our lunch

1. Dunbaron
2. Kendoch

Zoomer Cred for best memes

1. Skyler
2. Shimmer

Morale Booster

1. Dippy

2020 v2 RDEOT Award 'Ceremony'

Well I gave up waiting, so if you disagree with the results - thats on you for not voting.

On the flip side, we have better turn out than a municipal referendum regarding bike lanes (in Canada that's more contentious than American Planned Parenthood and Gun Control combined). (Read as: I was more or less pleased with the 'turnout.')

It's the moment some of us have been waiting for weeks. Everyone else forgot it was happenening. Well not just yet. It wouldnt be an award 'show' if it wasnt painfully drawn out.

Tonight we will be recognizing our DFT Player, moments that got OLD, and an iconic moment that we will probably meme about more than Diablo on Shad'har.

That got OLD, fast

I'll admit based on the responses, this next award was a total flop. You win some, you lose some. Either we are not a creative bunch, or these part of the raid was really that bad even when compared to getting gripped by a pesky priest into a mini-seed.

It really boiled down to one of two things we hated more: Wiping on Xymox and Wiping on SLG.

For this crew in particular, nothing quite felt as unfortunate as watching someone Missing a Soak on SLG.

Iconic Moment

Next up, our most momorable moment of the tier, we had a LOT of suggestions for this one, so I had to boil it down. But once we did, a clear winner emegerged.

Suggestions varied from simply "Solar", 'nothing really', all the way to to us absolutely nailing Sire.

But, in the end, we all came to an agreement that once a raid is far to frequent to watch @Gankdin aboslutely lose his shit when everyone kept team-fragging him on Xymox. Please, lets not dissapoint him this tier.

DTF Player

DFT is a new award this year with the goal of recognizing the individual you are most likely to see in your party when you said 'anyone wana <insert grindy, boring, M+, blah thing here>'. A hearty backslap to all of our nomenee's for this, with you we would be even more of a dead-raid-logging-bitter-old-crew-who-totally-smashed-CE: Killyn, Skyler, Moxie, Xandie.

And while this player is the only nomenee who voted for himself ;), we like him anyway. A man with unending enthusiasm for the game and more than a few suspect 'opportunities,' it is rumored that after raid you might find this player surfing the apps just waiting for the right woman to call him 'daddy.'

Congratulations: @Killyn

New Kid on the Block --- Rookie of the Tier

Story Time

Forgive me for going back to the roots of RDEOT - subpar storytelling.

Imagine this. Its 2020 (did 2020 actually even happen?). Shadowlands had just launched. Dunbaron was strung-out recruiting 4+ raiding rosters (we only needed one...) and he was more than a little over it all. One of the recent trials had connected with him and likely uttered the most useless fking words in recruitment "I'll play whatever the raid needs." It just so happened he was leaning towards healing. "Perfect!" Dunbaron thinks (he does a lot of that...thinking...you might be surprised), "I'll get Jason to deal with this."

Minutes later... "hey, Dubaron said I should talk to you about healing." -QWERQRT Jason thinks, "we have 4 CE returning healers, you might be shooting yourself in the foot...." "yea, sounds good. do you also have an OS, we have some strong healers on the roster already DPS might be the better route" "sure. im happy to play whatever" -QWERQRT "this guy is lost," Jason thinks again.

...little did I know...

Sure enough, raid-a-paolouza comes about and we have 45 people vyying for 25 spots and not single one is happy about anything. Then the magic happens. He proceeds to wipe the fucking floor with the rest of us. Totally baffled. Not only was he not a pushover, he was just simply solo-carrying the CSM-new-epxansion-rabble like it was nothing.

The worst part? Hes a dirty button clicker. Not on the core rotation? No problem. Just click it. @Killyn NO! DONT EVEN THINK IT. THIS IS NOT EVEN REMOTELY CONDONED BEHAVIOUR. This guy bascically has to hop on a plane to Africa to click his most important raid buff its so far off his screen...

I remember asking 'QWERQRT how did you even get here?' His response was simple, 'Found the best guild on my server and applied'...like it was nothing. By the end of the tier I found myself grateful for a few things: 1. He didnt actually play heals, cuz I would be on the bench. 2. This players calm attitude and cool approach to the game. 3. He offered insight and suggestions, sometimes a litte too slowly "I know I am the new guy but..." 😉 4. Kept his cool during the Nteenth SLG wipe. 5. His incredible flexibility - healing or dps - mechanics or throughput - all executed with skill.

Did you know? He has ONE weak aura when hes healing. ONE. And its for fucking Healing Rain of all spells.

I would spend more time hanging my head in shame at how badly this guy can flex with a classic UI, a single Weak Aura and dirty-as clicking, if I wasn't so damn happy to have him in the raid.

Thanks for everything you do - our Rookie of the Tier - @Thrali

MVP

The Man, the Myth, The Legend, our Castle Nathria MVP. (as voted by you)

This guy is the guy you want on your team not necessarily because he does the most damage, but because hes going to over-contribute to us actually killing the boss.

This one in particular is challenging to write, this guy doesn't leave himself up to memery and shenanigans. He shows up, does his job, and collects loot.

So I am just going to make this shit up on the fly. If you zoomers don't know Bel-air...welll...

🎵 Now this is the story all about how His life got flipped, turned upside down So you best take a minute, just sit there n dream I'll tell you how he became the MVP of Colonial Space Marines

In west Azeroth born and raised On the M+ grind where he spent most of his days DPSing, min-maxing, simming all cool And shooting some raid-boss outside of school When a couple of guys, they were pretty good Started making a scene in his neighborhood He got in on one little fight and his raid lead got pumped And said "wholly fucking shit - hes no chump"

He asked for a spot and when it became clear His parses were orange and he had no fear This guy was great you could not refute So fucking quiet, he might actually be mute.

A hundred missions later to grant a rez this awkward chicken needed a final rest He looked at his kingdom he was finally free To do it all again, in the SoD 🎵

Congratulations to our Nathria MVP. @Moomkin .

Also a huge shout out to @Heaton, who I left off this list because he is the defacto winner. Which out all the time, effort, and sacrifice he puts into raid planning and showing up on 3-4 nights a week, CSM wouldn't be half the guild it is today.

All the other Officers and Raid Advisors, you are pretty alrite too. It was a fun/challenging/odd ball tier. And @Mythic Raider ... US 325 ... well done all. Top 300 SOD?

2020 RDEOTS

The inaugural RDEOTS were held in the Fall of 2020 in conclusion to the last raid of BFA, Nyalotha shortly after Shadowlands was delayed and Nzoth was killed N-1 times (where N is too many fucking times).

Editor in charge for 3Q2020 RDEOTS was Sermo

2020 RDEOT Award 'Ceremony'

Biggest Backpack

Everyone frown at @Heaton. He just put all us popular kids in Vancouver in a two-week quarantine. SMH. If only Shadowlands was out sooner, we could have avoided this whole thing...

Well enough of that. Heaton didn't make this list.

The race for the biggest CSM backpack was tighter than American sphincters during a presidential election. We had a few names rise to the top of this list. So without any pomp and circumstance (okay, maybe a little pomp).

Here we go:

Our second runner-up: This guy can multitask like a motherfucker. He'll shoot the shit, tell you how to play a key part in the fight, and still forget to stun the neuron at X. He can flex on his Rogue or DK without missing a beat - whatever suites the fight. I am willing to bet we could put him on a no-faction-herb-farmed-panda and still seem him near the top of the meters. Without a doubt a solid player, and deserving this slot:

Samjay

Half a point ahead - our runner-up: The CSM mystery man. With a legacy only matched by his ...uhhh... height. Seriously he's nearly as tall as Brando (who is outrageously tall). King of memes, shitty puns, and yelling on his brother's Twitch stream. Always the guy who does his job, Dippy's job, Mark's job, and still makes it near the top of the meter. Congratulations:

Shimmer

This last carry - our most voted for BFA - was a new face to the CSM roster. He shot to the top of the meter and never relinquished it. You could make an argument that his class was pretty OP, but you couldn't argue that he piloted it with the utmost skill. This player could be relied on to do his job, carry the DPS check, and provide good strategic points here and there. Really, the only thing you could take away was an obvious character flaw that CSM to accept from the outset. He's got a terrible taste in fonts.

Congratulations: ComicSans

Dominoes Stakeout

The next installment continues.

Picture this.

You are en route to ProbablyCanceledCon.

You are sitting in a car, mask on, in the middle of no-where-ville (not too far from Dippy's hometown). Nothing's open, and you just ran out of gas. In the distance, you see a flicking blue and red neon sign. You grab your +avoidance engineering googles and sure enough, it's Dominoes. Huge relief. You're pretty sure you won't have to bust out that high school Spanish just yet. The sign on the door, you can barely make it out, says that it opens in groan 24 hours.

Fuuuuck. All you have is your 'dew, your spam sammich that mom @Kendoch packed, and the guildy you picked up on the side of a sketchy road.

Not quite sure if he's going to kill you. But at least he's pretty good at shooting the shit. There could be worse company.

You turn to your right and say, "Well Samjay / Heaton, better get comfy - we got fuck all to do..."

Read the Tooltips

Well. Here goes nothing.

This award is for the best of the worst. The cream of the yoghurt. The sand of the desert.

While superficially this looks like a good-un-chap-try-again-next-time-participation-award, its really not. I'd argue its the most important award we have to give out. For a team as shitty as we are, having someone start as fresh blood and grow into a solid, reliable mythic raider is how the rest of us get to play every week.

This player started by dying to everything that was thrown at him, literally. I can attest to it, I stopped trying to heal him. The fact that we can now send him solo into the abyss and expect him back with 8 other raiders, a 32 slot bag, CE, and a smile on his face is no small feat. Yah hes a bit of a shit, but we like him. @Dunbaron likes it even more when we dont need him to "offspec" Holy. (True story, he's been secretly off speccing since Legion).

CSM as a mythic raid team has been (in recent years) built on people growing into roles they wouldn't have had a second look at after a few bad fights in a different guild. We rely on these players to improve reset over reset to ultimately help the group get shit done.

I couldn't agree with the more with the votes on this one.

Congratulations Diablo. And thank you for being that guy. The guy who finally read the tooltips. Our, objectively, most improved player.

Just don't bring your disc priest, eh?

Killyn you had a solid shout out too. Thanks for rounding out our 20 so late in the exp. I think it was fitting you got your mount in the end, more than half of us wouldn't have had it without you stepping up.

Thanks Mom for packing our lunch

After a totally underwhelming election result, I have even more underwhelming RDEOTs to give out.

This one was a less than subtle nod to all the hard work our officer team put in to getting you raid ready. Heaven knows you were not going to do it yourself.

Not much more to say than thanks mom Dunbaron and Kendoch for packing our lunch.

Zoomer Cred

Tonight we are also going to recognize the individuals who are so invested in CSM they invented a new language to bridge the gap between old-timers and beanie-boppers. They brought us the true, raw, vegan, GMO free gamer culture we didn't know we were missing. And still wish we were.

In the most decisive, and yet indecisive, vote to date, two stars ascended to meme-hood at the expense of everyone else. They met the challenge and delivered an unprecedented number twitch-chat-terrible memes on the same tier as a Karen from the Youtube comment section.

Without further ado:

I dub thee @Skyler Zoomer in Chief and @Shimmew Vice Zoomer. May your reign be merciful.

Seriously, everyone just voted for these two (10/9). Tirynis abstained, and Diablo paid someone to vote for him.

Farmers Award for being outstanding in his field

Tuesday is reset day, which means no raiding!! Phew. It also means more bullshit awards.

Because people are going to be otherwise occupied watching Trumpocolypse tonight, I'll give you something to chew on now.

For this one, I decided to roll up two awards and rebrand them: The Farmer's award. Given for being outstanding in his field. This person shows an aptitude for hilarity and people generally enjoy having him around, even if he is dead at key moments during the fight.

I would offer a runner-up in this joint category, but this inspiring individual took both wins with such a landslide victory, it would be a shame for him not to take all the glory that came with such prestigious recognition.

Congratulations Dippy / Covidloid!