Spike's Top 60 Users: the 2010 edition

Intruduction
Yeah, my usual list of top 60 users over the course of this past year. I'd like to say there will be just as high of a quality for write-ups as I had last year, but that won't happen this year. I've not been as active on Board 8 as I was last year, probably averaging below 100 active messages this entire year. I wanted to keep the list the same size as previous years so that it stays nice and clean each year, rather than having some random-ass number in the middle of it. So, if I could say something good about you from this year, you might have made the list. Since I haven't been really interacting with the board, we'll probably be seeing some pretty decent write-ups in the top 20-25 or so rather than the usual 30-35 from previous years. If you only get a sentence, that's not my problem. I have school and **** to deal with anyways. So yeah. Normally I start December 1st and work my way till the end of the month ,but it probably won't be as long. Still making some final decisions. May have to start it up tomorrow. Yeah. Woo.

The List
60. Janus5000 (-2) ''2008: 26th 2009: 58th''

I didn't have the heart to get rid of Janus on the list this year. In the past, we had some good times in the UUL. I remember the time he defeated DSRage, who I believe was first in his division, after staying at rock bottom for who knows how long. He kinda fell off for awhile, and because of that I almost dropped him last year. But, I began to see him early this year making osme appearances in a few topics, and I believe he still shows up every now and then. I have yet to see him on AIM (which I added his AIM well over a year ago, to note), so there's little hope there.

59. Lopen (+1) ''2008: N/A 2009: 60th''

I've known Lopen since pretty much the beginning of my visit here on Board 8, but I only actually got to doing something with him starting last year. We played quite a few games of Brawl together, mostly in either GOG's "Wii Would Like 2 Brawl" series, or the Brawl League series. I remember I held some sort of grudge against him for telling me I did nothing but spam the Egg Roll, and to this day, I still think he overreacted to his inability to counter it at the time. By now, he's probably figured out how to do it, and he didn't have the problem the last time we played (probably since I almost never use the Egg Roll now), but he's a fun guy to play with on occasion. Might've seen him in Mafia. Can't really remember since I'm an occasional player.

58. ctesjbuvf ''2008: N/A 2009: N/A''

ctes is going to be the first new appearance on the list. The guy is different, to say the very least. He came in immediately jumping into that whole realm of user contests. Within his first 2 weeks on GameFAQs, I already had a bad opinion of him. Not only was he a user contest freak (probably twice the freak I was), but his username. Damn. I used to refer to him as letters, the c guy, or ctes[insert random keyboard typing here]. I seriously thought he was some sort of alt/troll, and if he was a genuine guy, what kind of name was that? And why I'd sometimes type random letters after ctes? Because I thought his name was a bunch of random junk he found attached to his armpit. The user contests got annoying, I even didn't like the guy when he decided to confront me on AIM. It's been months, and now my opinion's changed somewhat. He's not some alt/troll. He's just an underage user who's got a way's to go, but who is still a genuinely nice guy. Good guy to talk to on AIM.

57. Minipoooot ''2008: 14th 2009: N/A''

Pooter and I go all the way back to the UUL. Great person, got to know poot very well. We ended up creating some amazing group of 5 guys (I guess we were the Fatal 5 of the UUL) consisting of myself, wavedash, Stifled, poot, and SilverNightmare. We were the force to be reckoned with when we all jumped 2 divisions, and poot even made write-ups for our group. Stifled gave an award for it, so it can be found on the wiki still. Eventually, the entire group split up, and for the longest time I didn't see poot anywhere. No contact at all. And last year, poot became the highest ranked user from the 08 list to not make the 09 list. It was tough, but there just wasn't anything there anymore. Lately I've seen poot make a comback (even posted in this topic) and I've had 3 or 4 quick convos over AIM...poot still needs to Brawl me at least once.great person whose return brought back good memories.

56. PumpkinCoach (-21) ''2008: 34th 2009: 37th''

PumpkinCoach was one of my pretty consistent favorites to maybe...3 years back. He placed in the 30s on every list, I think even the 07 list that lacked the quality of the past 2 lists and wasn't even saved. He was consistent participant in ken's Save My Suikoden Character series, and he was a strong participant of the GameFAQs contests, even holding first for a moment in one of them. I also enjoyed taking part in his Rate The Pokemon (maybe it was Pokemon Name) series,..But now, that's all I can remember about him. He dropped off toward the end of both years. And I asked myself honestly; if someone asked you who PumpkinCoach was, what would you tell them? My answer: this guy on Board 8 that I don't talk to anymore. Hence the 21 place drop.

55. SilverlinerV182 ''2008: N/A 2009: N/A''

Great guy to play games with, and talk to on AIM about basically anything. In one of the Brawl Leagues I got the opportunity to Brawl him, and boy were those matches fun. I think I ended up on top 3-1, and I definitely wanted to Brawl again some time. Though he frequents the Board, I usually contact him on AIM to get the talk going on. But I've not spoken to him lately, and that sucks, because he could probably place a lot higher. But a first list appearance is a good start.

54. WiggumFan267 (-31) ''2008: N/A 2009: 23rd''

...Ouch, Wiggs. What happened, you ask? I can't remember anything he did. I mean, he was a great guy to talk to in the UUL, and last year, we had quite a few IM chats, but this year? I don't remember talking to him once. That's quite depressing. =/

53. yazzy14 (-40) ''2008: 6th 2009: 13th''

Bazooka. Yazzy and I were on great terms way back in the day. He was, obviously, the person to run the Ultimate User League, and man, what a performance. Consistent updates, stats, a well-run results/rankings website, great analysis on occasion, the guy did it all. And it showed. His popularity in that thing skyrocketed faster than redrocket goes. He also took part in a lot of Board 8 projects BBall held, like the Half-Assed RPGs, the MMO, etc. He tried to take over one of his contests, the RPG Wars, but it didn't really work out for him. The UUL was more of this thing. But lately, I don't really see him much either. There's so many people dying off on Board 8 (or I'm just missing them), and yazzy's no exception. After the UUL, the only thing I could ask myself when ranking yazzy was "where there did he go?" I know he's now a father, so perhaps he's been busy. When yazzy left, he didn't exactly strike me as one of those "I HAVE to get to know you" users like he did in the past. I found it hilarious that he ended up throwing some childish tantrum at PIMP and me because we both purposefully disqualified ourselves in some UUL match when we ended up against each other. Maybe the stress of being a dad got to his head? We may never know.

52. Justin_Crossing (-24) ''2008: N/A 2009: 28th''

Justin_Crossing...a fellow Canadian brothah. We've had some good times in the past. The DS Giveaway was beyond intense, the UUL for the 1 or 2 seasons he was in it was pretty sick, GameFAQs Contests are always fun (although he failed all of us in the Guru Contest...twice D:). He's a frequent player of Board 8 Mafia, and although he isn't the greatest at it, it's still very interesting watching him play. I actually believe he was in both the Mafia games I've joined...2 only 2 I've joined. I'm pretty sure he was in Hotel Dusk...but anyway. Luster tutoring post? Don't remember it...details! The big thing with Justin is lack of interaction. We had a lot more AIM chats last year than this year....actually, I don't think we had any this year. The only thing I remember about this year is the time Justin completely destroyed the chat box in some click the circles game that I think bonetail brought up.

51. KommunistKoala ''2008: N/A 2009: N/A''

I didn't really see too much of Koala until this year, and boy did he leave an impression. He's not the kind of Board 8er I usually look for. Board 8 is made up mostly of mature users who are able to have some sort of connection with each other, and thus a spawn of topics is brought up. But I don't know of any Koala is in. The thing with him is that, although he probably is in a group, he tends to stretch out into the more "lol wut" topics, if you will. He was a great addition to those who were messing around with those new users that some idiot brought from the Brawl Boards. Although his posts were often very brief, his sense of humor kinda gets me a bit. In a different way than most people. I've seen him play mafia a few times (I think most or all of them were probably AIM mafia, but I don't even know if he has one). Since we haven't actually chatted very often (I think he one-line'd me once), I can't put him in the top 50.