[b]Rookie of the Season[/b]<br /><br />I agree that if Rookie of the Season is to mean N00B of the season, then Rust and TurSKA hardly qualify, although both are outstanding players.&nbsp; This leaves only two rookies who aren&#039;t me: Higgs and Prime.&nbsp; Higgs&#039; shortcomings are clearly due to the fact that he plays too much Quake--this guy plays Motherfuckin Quake, you know what I&#039;m sayin?--he moves slowly and thoughtfully with a minimum of spammy bullshit.&nbsp; In spite of this terrible handicap, he has performed similarly to TurSKA as a runner and provided EBL with the much-needed offensive flavor they needed to enter the play-offs.&nbsp; <br /><br />ThatsJustPrime is not exactly new to ZDaemon.&nbsp; He&#039;s been an imperial warrior for a couple of years, and was drafted (based on his past performance) in the 3rd round right after Mandolore (a former clan-mate) to play sub-in 3rd for the Chiantis-(D)X powerhouse.&nbsp; When he suddenly demonstrated that he was not only much better than Mandy, but possibly better than Chain and Mantis, he was immediately made a permanent player.&nbsp; In fact, the three players in SPE&#039;s lineup are so powerful that I&#039;m very surprised they couldn&#039;t make it to the play-offs this season.&nbsp; We certainly could never beat them.<br /><br />What Higgs, Prime, and I all have in common is that we were all 4th&#039;s who became our team&#039;s 3rd&#039;s.<br /><br />[i]Prime[/i]<br /><br />[b]Captain of the Season[/b]<br /><br />Captain of the Season should go to the captain who puts the most time and effort into practicing with and coaching his team, and the one who makes the most out of the draft order, free agency availability, and draft mistakes (Metal, Shakal, Bloodstrike at that time, etc.) he was dealt.&nbsp; Ralphis has done a great job, but he has one of the best line-ups in the league behind him.&nbsp; Goatface has interestingly assembled a team that does better without him than with him (no offense), which is rare.&nbsp; But I think Hatred has put the most time and effort into his team this season, and it has shown.&nbsp; Even with his wife getting her hurr did left and right and seven mulatto babies dangling from his diamond-studded JAMIE necklace, farting all over him, he&#039;s still on at 1, 2 AM every night spamming for EBL practice.&nbsp; That&#039;s dedication.<br /><br />[i]Hatred[/i]<br /><br />[b]Comeback of the Season[/b]<br /><br />I take this to mean player who was good and then not-so-good and then good again.&nbsp; In that case, and because this is a stupid category, I hereby sanction a three-way tie.&nbsp; Bloodstrike and Rottking were both the Pre-Fastidious Satan&#039;s Anus Ungodly Fraggers of Zdaemon.&nbsp; Back when points were just frags, breaking 100 was a big achievement for somebody, but Rott and Blood both did it on a regular basis.&nbsp; After a few seasons, either they got worse or everyone else got better, but they seemed to fade into the fabric of IDL.&nbsp; But now they&#039;re back and fraggier than ever.&nbsp; They might be two of the fraggiest fraggots I&#039;ve ever been splattered by.&nbsp; Killingblair, on the other hand, is not so much known for fragging as he is for doing everything.&nbsp; Only, in the past few seasons, he has been outshone by flashier players, and frankly we were all a little surprised when bones picked him as the 5th draft (YOU COULD HAVE HAD LB! OR MIEK! YOU DRUNKEN IDIOT!), but then something happened.&nbsp; And that something is called Denver.&nbsp; And it filled Blair with such a furious rage that he wasn&#039;t just able to dodge bullets...&nbsp; he didn&#039;t have to.<br /><br />[i]A 3-Way Tai: Bloodstrike,Rottking, and Killingblair[/i]<br /><br />[b]Underrated Player of the Season[/b]<br /><br />One easy way to quantify this category is to see which players were drafted long after they should have been: LordBritish, joshsmith, me (ahahah). But seriously though folks.&nbsp; Two people come to mind:<br /><br />When Rooster traded Saber and Midian for Star and DJ Noob, some people said he was an idiot because Noob sux.&nbsp; But, as it turns out, he kind of doesn&#039;t suck.&nbsp; I have found him to be quite the pain in the ass whenever I play against him, and he seems to have a little finesse hidden somewhere deep inside of his personality.<br /><br />The real doormat of the IDL, however, is Legion.&nbsp; Apparently Legion is grown, intelligent, and most importantly, not as bad at Doom as everybody acts like he is.&nbsp; In this season especially, he has taken great strides in his playing abilities, and has proven himself to be a competent runner at least.<br /><br />[i]Legion[/i]<br /> <br />[b]Most Valuable Player of the Season[/b]<br /><br />If most valuable means best, then I think Ralphis, Nostar, Jenova, and Stallion would all be in the running, and that that would be a very boring category indeed, and roughly the same players would win every season.&nbsp; If however, as Star suggested, most valuable means most valuable to one&#039;s team, then mikehail wins hands down.&nbsp; Fnordic Kniners without Miekhial would be like Kimmel without Carolla; like Biden without Obama; like Katy Perry without an autotuner and a boob job.&nbsp; He plays defense, mid, offense, floater, spawncamper, and RTFer for KNF, while stringle and collusion run around headless, spinning, clucking and molting all over the map.<br /><br />[i]Mikehail[/i]<br /><br /><br />I want Kenneth to talk about me.<br />