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Hi y'all,

So, although I realize it's not technically the end of 2020 (although I'm sure many of us would prefer it to be lol) and there very well could be a few more amazing decks released between now and then that would be eligible/qualify for consideration in the annual 'Deck of the Year' Awards of recognizing the best of the best, I still wanted to get a jump start on creating this thread for deck nominations and hopefully get people to start thinking about the 2020 DOTY Awards so it'll make it easier and less overwhelming when it's time to vote on Monday, January 18th - Sunday, January 31st, 2021.

To learn more about the DOTYs, please visit the official 'Deck of the Year' Awards thread here.

Currently, we have a pretty comprehensive list of all the decks that have been released throughout 2020 thus far (which you can find in this google doc here) and this list will continue to be modified & updated as needed. It looks like a lot, I know, but do please keep in mind that this is only meant to be an extra resource for the community and you can personally choose to use it, or not - it's totally up to you If you do decide to take a look at the list, you'll see that the google doc provides links where you'll be able to view pics of the deck and includes filters which allow you to either search for a specific deck or filter out decks based on particular criteria such as artist/producer, date of release/shipment, etc. as shown under the title of each column (more info is provided in a note on the doc, or, if you have any questions, please feel free to PM me ) Personally, I find the simplest way to sort through those decks that qualify for this year is to use the filter under 'Shipping Status' which will state when the deck was shipped & delivered to backers/buyers and could be filtered month by month for the year.

Now, there's just a couple important announcements I'd appreciate if you all would read through in regards to this thread & submitting nominations for the DOTY Awards:

1. The intended purpose of this new thread is NOT to provide an opportunity for discussion and/or debate (we've all been there and done that already in specific threads for many of the decks that are eligible), but simply to serve as a sort of visual list for members to browse/scroll through and hopefully to aid those in voting for each of the various award categories that will be listed in their own separate posts that you'll see below. With that said, I respectfully ask that you all refrain from posting here on this thread. If you do happen to have any comments/questions/concerns regarding any content on this thread, please feel free to either reach out to me through PM or do so publicly in the Discussions thread to keep this one as uncluttered as possible. Again, this is just to be used as a simple visual list of nominations and nothing more.
   
   

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2. Nominations can be made by any member of the community, for any deck and for any of the following categories that will be listed below in each of their own separate posts. But, I'd like to try to keep things anonymous to deter the loudest voices in the room from possibly domineering over the opinions and/or voting of others. In order to do that, I request that anyone interested in making nominations to please do so directly through PM to me, 'PipChick' and this thread will be updated with those nominations accordingly as soon as our UC DOTY team is able to. Once again, please refrain from posting here on this thread - thank you!
   
   

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3. To nominate decks/designers, simply PM me with the deck(s) you'd like to see be added to this thread and be sure to make note of whichever award category listed below you're specifically nominating it for and I'll ensure that it'll be added there. As nominations start rolling in, we'll do our best to update and modify this thread as soon as the 2020 DOTY team is able to, but if you don't see your submitted nominations added instantaneously, don't worry; just give us some time so that we may be able to do so and check back again later.
   
   

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To keep things as anonymous and unbiased as possible, nominations submitted and added to this thread will ONLY include the following: name of deck, designer, producer, printer and, of course, a few pics to reflect what aspect of the deck is being considered for award. (ex. if a deck is specifically nominated for it's back design in that particular award category, I'll only be posting a pic of it's back design to keep other aspects from swaying the vote).

So, let us know what decks you think deserve to be nominated for recognition and be sure to spread the word - either through social media or trained carrier pigeons - to others that might be interested in joining the community in our little playing card corner of the internet to participate!




Final List of Award Categories are as follows:

• Best Tuck Case
  
  
• Best Ace
  
  
• Best Joker(s)
  
  
• Best Gaff / Extra Card(s)
  
  
• Best Pips
  
  
• Best Courts
  
  
• Best Use of Color
  
  
• Best Back
  
  
• Best Deck for Fanning
  
  
• Best Deck for Cardistry / Flourishing
  
  
• Best Deck for Magic
  
  
• Best Non-Poker Deck
  
  
• Best Rookie Deck
  
  
• Best Innovation
  
  
• Best Overall Deck

2020 might have sucked but our DOTYs don't have to - Let's make this year's DOTY Awards the best ever! YAY!

Sherm & 2pc - I'mma be deleting all y'all's posts here but y'all are too too sweet!

But seriously - this year's DOTYs would not be at all possible without the support tho of our amazing committee so y'all definitely need to give a huge THANKS to PiazzaDelivery, KingfisherZero, MagikFingerz, portcullis & sinjin for their enthusiasm to wanna help out in making this year's DOTYs happen and for it to be bigger and better than ever! All of whom are now part of a shared dropbox file folder so we can all work together in organizing and managing the event more efficiently.

If anyone else would like to be a part of helping out, please let me know because honestly, every little bit of time and effort spared is so SOOOO greatly appreciated! It's a lot of work at the moment cuz I wanna be concise in breaking down each task and the steps in how to carry it out, but I'm adding, editing and updating along the way to be used as a road map of sorts for prioritizing various little odd and end jobs in running the DOTYs. I'm hoping that this could be the foundtation for making the event more managable and allow for running of it general to be taken on by the community as a whole in a collective effort together with this as a guide to be used for many year's to come.

Also, I am aware that the masterlist of deck releases is not available; it's being worked on at this very moment by myself and the team! If you're waiting on that document to submit your votes, hold tight! We're gunna try to get it all together and to be as updated as possible to reflect ALLLLL the releases of the past year and boy are there a LOT lol - I'll Post a comment in here when the doc is ready - stay tuned!

xoxoxo

Sherman and 2pc should not have been censored. Sherman's message and 2pc's subsequent agreement are important to the integrity of UC. In the hopes to keep that message alive, I am willing to take on the risk of sharing Sherman's message and incurring the wrath of these tyrannical and oppressive UC moderators. I will paraphrase as I cannot retrieve the earlier text:

Pipchick is awesome.

Bring on the ban-hammer. I am ready.

I think that is the first time I've ever been censored, here... *sobs*

I bought so few decks this year that I don't even know what to nominate.

BaconWise wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:44 pm Sherman and 2pc should not have been censored. Sherman's message and 2pc's subsequent agreement are important to the integrity of UC. In the hopes to keep that message alive, I am willing to take on the risk of sharing Sherman's message and incurring the wrath of these tyrannical and oppressive UC moderators. I will paraphrase as I cannot retrieve the earlier text:

[REDACTED]

Bring on the ban-hammer. I am ready.