Captain of the Year:<br /><br />It&#039;s a tough call considering the experience and strong backround every captain possesses this season. I&#039;m going to go on a long-shot here and pick Strangle. His drafting of Whiteboy made sense but most don&#039;t understand Legion when guys like Bloodstrike and MadV were still available. Don&#039;t get me wrong, Legion has stepped his game up but Strangle could have drafted a much stronger team. Everybody figured whiteboy and whitemike were probably a package deal and with Legion, Strangle is going to need to pull out all the stops to be successful. I think he&#039;ll do rather well because of Legions constant improvement, Strangle&#039;s underrated ability to be a competent IDL player and White&#039;s whiteness. I predict them making a wild-card berth and possibly knocking off a top seed in the process. A post-season berth would be an quite an accomplishment for Strangle and I think it would warrant captain of the year honors. Other captains like LB and Prime are in contention because of their seemingly weaker rosters compared to everybody else&#039;s teams but I suspect they&#039;ll fall short, thus eliminating them and giving Strangle the award.<br /><br />Rookie of the Year/breakout player of the year:<br /><br />This award will go to Killforce. He&#039;s been on two IDL rosters in the past and towards the end of last season, he began showing IDL-ready ability. He has a good line-up behind him and that can only help. Legion is also a contender. He has definitely improved as a player from 2 seasons ago. While most might not see him as a goto player, he has definitely worked his way up to being a capable 3rd. With a strong player behind him in White, I think Legion will put up career highs for flags. All in all though, Killforce&#039;s contribution to a good team will probably shine more and give him the award.<br /><br />Defender of the Year: Most people are picking Stallion and I&#039;m pretty much convinced he&#039;s the best defender in the game currently. But I don&#039;t think he&#039;ll get it and not because he&#039;ll be lacking in his performance. I&#039;ll be in front of him and I tend to kill a lot of things. His stats will probably suffer a little more in terms of total frags (though I suspect his k/d ratio will actually increase as a result) but he&#039;ll still be a rock solid defender. I&#039;m going to go off the grid here and say Rus. Ladna is capable but he&#039;s not exactly me or Chaindude (another strong player in front of a great defender). Rus will probably have to man up big time to keep his team in contention and even though Turska is a monster, this is probably the weakest team Rus has had while leading TKV (now known as PDU) as he faces the strongest teams he&#039;s ever faced in the IDC north in SGS (formerly EBL) and KGB. I think PDU (formely TKV) will most likely find their way into the post-season because of Turska/Ladna getting it done enough on offense while Rus goes into shutdown mode and keeps his team in contention every match. <br /><br />Runner of the Year: This is a toss-up between Turska and LB. These are the only two guys I see running every single week for their teams. If Bones&#039; plays higgs and mixes him up with Denny when he can get him on, that will easily eliminate higgs. Even if he doesn&#039;t, I don&#039;t see Higgs putting up the stats LB and turska put up. The Rockets have guys in who will probably switch from mid-to-o each week killing their stats and guys like Legion, Mantis/Gyross probably don&#039;t put up enough stats either. Junior is a darkhorse as well, but I see KGB being a little more defensive than they have been in seasons past because Blair definitely plays better as a fraggier mid closer to D. In the end, LB and Turska will hero some flags and probably lead the board on captures. Overall, I&#039;m going to with LB and it&#039;s not because it&#039;s an easy pick. If anything, he&#039;ll probably get a bunch of caps with little to no help because his team will probably be playing constant 2d as I don&#039;t see him trusting either one to float around in mid for extended periods of time. <br /><br />This is one I forgot to add but I&#039;ll do so anyway:<br /><br />Comeback player of the year:<br /><br />Each year, IDL seems to bring back long-time veterans who&#039;ve been inactive in previous seasons. This season features some big names in Shadow_Ghost, Chaindude, Shakal, Whiteboy, DevastatioN, Higgs, Oath and so forth. Out of all these guys, everyone probably expects Chaindude and Whiteboy to be the best statistical players on their teams. Dev will be strong, too. I don&#039;t know if Denny will be active enough and I still think higgs has a long way to go to be worthy of the award. If he ends up leading the league in any major category or stays close to the top of the leader board, he&#039;s a strong candidate. But I see Oath getting it. Oath will be the x-factor for SUC. If he&#039;s great, SUC contends for another friggin IDC South (god, how many in a row have they won???) title. If he&#039;s not, SUC probably crashes and burns. I think he&#039;ll be pretty solid and help lead his team to the postseason. I also think he&#039;ll put up greater stats offensively, which is something Ralph teams always yield. And when people probably aren&#039;t expecting from him what they do in Chain and White, I think Oath is just as important. And that&#039;s probably why he&#039;ll win the award, for playing the best out of all of them. <br /><br />Ralph Vickers Just For Men MVP:<br /><br />This is really tricky. This season has so many stacked teams so it&#039;s really hard to reward a guy who will probably have inflated stats for being on a great team (thats usually where the MVP goes anyway). I really don&#039;t know so I&#039;ll say me. Because I&#039;m the shit. 