Rookie of the year:<br /><br />As I stated in my initial post, this one comes down to three players. The three I&#039;d consider for this are Higgs, RustInPeace and turska. All 3 have been significant contributors to their teams and could easily be out of contention for the play-offs without them. While I believe turska has been very good, it&#039;s just hard to elect someone who hasn&#039;t played in every single match for their team. What he has done is very impressive but I think that counts for something, whether it was a team decision or not. Higgs has been very good for us and his offense and FPS-smarts have provided us with a much-needed spark at times. He&#039;s also very involved with strategy developing and that also makes a difference. He has improved as time has gone on but it&#039;s one of those things where the sky is the limit for him if he continues to play. Rust is also in the same boat, he&#039;s always helped with strat (I should note we do as a team mostly) and his defense and versatility has been a big factor for our teams mild success thus far. Even still, the other thing I factor into this is that Rust and turska have been playing ZDaemon for a long time, Higgs hasn&#039;t. So even though they are rookies to IDL, they are not rookies to doom. Higgs has played some in the past, but nothing near this competitive with this much talent. That is why my vote for Rookie of the Year goes to him<br /><br />Vote: Higgs<br /><br />2. I won&#039;t toot my own horn here. I&#039;m usually not that type. Even though we&#039;ve had some success, it hasn&#039;t been all me. I drafted two high IQ guys in higgs and Rust and even though they might not have the abilities of a Whiteboy or Ralphis, they&#039;re smart enough and do everything well enough to get it done at high levels. Strangle is certainly up for this but it&#039;s hard to vote for him considering he hasn&#039;t played in every game either. His team has been very successful and you have to credit him for knowing how to at least build a team with the picks available to him. Still though, mike is usually the one who thinks up their plans and he&#039;s the reason why they&#039;re mostly playing much better now as opposed to how they&#039;ve played in the past. So, for me, I scratch out Strangle on this one. Jenova is also a very interesting, dark-horse candidate. Jenova has possibly begun a dynasty in the making for himself and the Pack. Last season, BSK was much more talented. Even though he has good players in Rott and Dev, I wasn&#039;t sure how that duo would work out. Rott has struggled on D the last few seasons and Dev is good, but I&#039;m not sure he was d material either. Dev&#039;s mid has been good and he&#039;s obviously a high-IQ player. RottKing has been the X-factor, he&#039;s played much better on defense and Jenova&#039;s great running ability has given this team a swagger that sort of resembles the BSK of last season. Next up is Ralphis. Ralph has been doing this for a long time. He&#039;s kind of bald, but the guy wins man. It doesn&#039;t matter where he picks, who he picks -- the guy just wins. This season, SUC has been one of the best teams in the league. Josh is the x-factor, if he&#039;s focused and committed, SUC is arguably the best team in the league. If not, depending on who they play, they could be eliminated in the first round. Even still, that&#039;s where you have to credit Ralph for being able to take the risk of drafting him and knowing it. Even without him, they&#039;ve still been very competitive and they could finish with the leagues best record. The longevity and commitment, to me, symbolize what this league is all about. So that&#039;s why Ralph is the winner here.<br /><br />Vote: Ralphis<br /><br />3. Comeback player of the year:<br /><br />Two guys come to mind here, both of whom are on Jenova&#039;s Packers. As I stated in my original post, RottKing has been ballin&#039; his season. Some of the younger guys to the league or ZD don&#039;t really know what Rott used to be. This guy was a freak. A total walking frag-fest, killing shit right and left. The last few seasons though, he&#039;s struggled and has been a huge exploit for the teams he&#039;s been on. That has simply not been the case this season, the dude is playing like he&#039;s finally remembered how to play DooM. Kudos to Rott. Dev is the other one, who took last season off. DevastatioN was on an IDC team in the browns who made the conf. finals two seasons ago and he was a big reason why. Once again, Dev has been a key-contributor to a winning team. He doesn&#039;t always blow you away with flare or beautiful, graceful play, but the guy knows how to get it done. He&#039;s one of the top 5 DooMers of all the time and he&#039;s proven no matter where he goes, the guy wins. Who knows what he could have done or what history could have changed had he played last season. But, I&#039;m afraid I have to snub my friend on this one and give it to Rott. He&#039;s been too good for me not to.<br /><br />Vote: RottKing<br /><br />4. Most underrated player:<br /><br />To me, I have to give this one to my boy Gilga. Rust is in consideration too, but he&#039;s been nominated for one category already and I think it&#039;s gotten to the point where people understand that Rust is no laughing matter. Gilga, on the other hand, has mostly been a defensive player in the past. Even then, most people don&#039;t really understand how good, or smart, he is and how essential he is to SUC&#039;s success. Gilga has become a very capable runner and still possesses the smarts and ability to defend at a high level in certain maps. It&#039;s hard to discredit others but he&#039;s just not someone talked about a bunch and I think it&#039;s a notice to be served that Gilga&#039;s here to represent the state of West Virginia in a masterbowl quest. You go, Gilga.<br /><br />Vote: Gilga<br /><br />5. Most Valuable player:<br /><br />Jenova. Hands down, friggin&#039; Jenova. The guy leads the league with 50 caps right now and has been great ever since he started playing in the IDL. I think it&#039;s time we start really recognizing this dude as possibly one of the best, if not the best, flag-runners in DooM. He also has a very deceptive ability to frag. He may be an arrogant jerk at times, but if you don&#039;t like it, rock his shit and shut him up. If not, then at least have the decency to respect great skill when you see it. I live close enough to carbomb his house, so I&#039;m not worried about anything he says!&nbsp; 