1. [b]Rookie of the year[/b]<br />First I&#039;m going to say that it doesn&#039;t matter if someone has been playing since &#039;99 or 2009. We are all rookies to IDL if this is our first season playing regardless of prior &#039;CTF experience&#039;. Personally my prior CTF experience(2007-2008) was limited to Pub CTF and scrims against shit clans like [T] and [GS] and this is vastly different from the IDL. But anyway, I&#039;m going to go ahead and give this to higgs. I&#039;d choose myself as seeing the other rookies aren&#039;t even at my level (they&#039;re too low) but I&#039;m gonna step aside and give it to my mfquaking, Canadian teammate. During the pre-season the majority said we were fucked because we didn&#039;t have any real O and that was going to be our downfall. However, higgs has developed a fanbase within IDL and mostly everyone acknowledges he is a capable runner. I don&#039;t know what nostar&#039;s problem is with higgs, but he&#039;s not a terrible pick. Perhaps in a few seasons higgs will be running circles around star, making him look like robert-tk. I don&#039;t know whats the deal with massvc. I&#039;ve never seen him play at all this season so I cannot comment on him. <br /><br />[b]higgs[/b] for going from zero to hero.<br /><br /><br />2. [b]Captain of the year[/b]<br />I&#039;m not going to be basing this solely on winning records or stats. What makes a Captain stand out is success, more specifically, success when everyone expected failure. So right away Stall, Jenova, and Ralphis shouldn&#039;t be mentioned since there was no possibly way for them to fuck up their teams that happen to be flooded with good players. Plus we all expected them to do well, which they have. Despite making the playoffs, Tai can&#039;t even keep his team together and they possibly hate his guts enough to no-show the playoffs. Caboose didn&#039;t even show up for one of his games (he forgot D:) and Goat only did slightly better than we thought. TKV has been disappointing all this season and Jen says they suck. Bones and Mantis are struggling for the last playoff spot but both have also been disappointing this season. So it comes down to Hatred and Strangle. Both teams have done better than everyone expected. Strangle, has done well with mike and collision (who was a bit of gamble) and has made it to the playoffs as a rookie captain. However, his team has experience and that&#039;s what separates them from EBL. I&#039;m going to go with Hatred. I&#039;m not picking him because he&#039;s my Captain, but rather due to the fact he took 2 &#039;crappy&#039; rookies and made it to the playoffs. Lets all remember what everyone said in the pre-season. We were doomed and probably would only get like 1 win, a few ties and several losses. Since we didn&#039;t have any &#039;IDL Superstars&#039;, our chances of reach playoffs were close to none. But we made playoffs and made it without any &#039;Superstars&#039; so suck on it.<br /><br />[b]Hatred[/b] for proving all you faggots wrong.<br /><br /><br />3. [b]Comeback player of the year[/b]<br />Well this is a stupid category. As seeing I&#039;ve never played in IDL before and have no clue who quit or took a break, I&#039;m going with:<br /><br />[b]Rottking[/b] since he&#039;s cooler than all the other mentioned players.<br /><br /><br />4. [b]Most underrated player[/b]<br />There are many players who can fit under this category. But most of the people previously mentioned have skills and many can agree on that. Therefore I&#039;m going to have to give this to my brother. In priv, strangle is constantly being told he sucks and that he&#039;s only good for filler. But he can frag well as I can (maybe slightly better) and his running is much improved from the last time we were on a team or anything([AC], 2008). He&#039;s shown he can be a capable defender on some maps. If he could start using his brains more and pay attention to what works and what doesn&#039;t, he would definitely be a top tier player. Sure I may be smarter than him, taller than him, better looking than him, on a higher level than him, and my gf is hotter than his... oh wait. Whereas I get a little bit of credit, he gets nearly none. So:<br /><br />[b]Strangle[/b] for ignoring the haters and rocking shit.<br /><br /><br />5. [b]Most Valuable player[/b]<br />This can be looked at several ways. An MVP could be the person who was most important to their team. An MVP can also be someone who carried their team. An MVP can be a player who can make any team a winner. But since this can apply to many players, I&#039;m going with:<br /><br />[b]Ralphis[/b]. He&#039;s 10 times the player you faggots will never be.