User of the Year

A contest held yearly by Smurf.

He began the project in 2003 and has continued it with huge success since then.

Past winners

2003: Amazing Telephone (2nd Kawaiifan)

2004: UltimaterializerX (2nd Steinershocker)

2005: Exthanemesis (2nd Sir Chris)

2006: FFDragon (2nd transience)

UOTY is best known for two things. Credible winners and drama. Here are some of the dramatic highlights.

Drama
2003 - Blackscar took advantage of the flawed voting rules which allowed a vote every hour. He was pro Kawaiifan and anti Amazing Telephone. His domination throughout the contest saw his haters turn out in force for the final. Led by Slowflake they blitzed Amazing Telephone to victory at the expense of the clear favorite Kawaiifan.

2004 - Drama came in the newly introduced Golden Parcel round this year, again circling around Kawaiifan. On Day 2 of the GP round which lasted a week long, Kawaiifan took a huge 200 point lead, doubling xXSabin FigaroXx at that point. A feat which everyone assumed had ended the match. But Sabin stopped the bleeding and quietly kept gaining as the days went on. Most of the attention was focused on the neck and neck affair between Steinershocker and Alanna82 so nobody noticed his gains until he was a managable 80 points behind. So Kawaii supporters turned their attention back to helping her, and then things got crazy. AIM Rallying and possible board rallying saw piles of Sabin votes pour in on the last day. Many sporting the same spelling mistake on Steiner's name. Many were dissallowed but most were impossible to dismiss as cheat votes and Sabin went on to win the match 693- 692. A one point victory.

2005 - Sick of losing in this contest, Sir Chris chose to go full force for 2005. He blitzed his competition en route to the later stages. But things got sticky when he came up aganist newcomer ExThaNemesis. So sticky in fact, that Chris resorted to AIM rallying for support. It sort of worked, but ExTha then retaliated with rallying of his own to cancel it out. The end result would be another defeat for Chris.

2006 - Once again Sir Chris was up to his latter stage tricks, but this time he didn't see beyond the GP round. The real drama was in the final, where FFDragon officialy won the match by 1 vote over transience. This was disputed because the final vote (for FFD) cast by Inviso was 3 minutes outside regulation time. Which would have left the match in a tie. As with any Smurf contest, the tiebreaker rules are that his vote is removed and whoever would win without that would be crowned champion. Smurf voted for transience so even in a tiebreaker scenario, FFDragon was still the winner.

2007 - The 2007 contest is well under way, with Smurf touting ExThaNemesis as the favorite to win the contest. Many others feeling that Ed Bellis has a decent shot at taking it. Many drama issues have already been encountered such as transience refusing to take part because of the result of the final the previous year, SineNomine rallying, stuffing and flooding because he didn't want to be in it, AppleKidJosh whining because his sign up was rejected and XIII_Rocks because he tried to decredit his pitiful score by claiming he rallied aganist himself. Both SineNomine and XIII_Rocks were handed Disqualifications. A first for UOTY.