Season 5 - Individual Player Awards

There was fierce competition as ever for the coveted title of 'Star Player'. Contenders included Flash Panach, DeadDog, Twilian and Lex but there can be only one winner and the Alliance Star Player of Season Five is Green26!

The 'Psycho' award is an attempt to recognise those Alliance players who are dedicated to mayhem. Those who treat the lives of their own men with as little respect as they do their opponents. To this end the award goes to the player who has racked up more kills over the season than any other player. It doesn't matter whether its their own men, their opponents, or even innocent spectators, all that matters is the body count.

This season a massive eight players topped thirty points per game. Special mentions to Thall who sustained this for eleven games and to Android Barker for managing this over seven games. In the end though, all of the three highest kill averages went to members of the Rock N Roll Sucides led by their founder, The Least Among Us with an average of 33.5 points per game.

The complete opposite of the 'Psycho' award, the 'Guardian Angel' award is for those players who value the lives of their loyal men almost as highly as their own. These are the players who never deploy less than a full medical hospital, and have been known to pass out at the first sign of blood.

This season was a little dissappointing compared to previous ones with only four players coming in at below twenty points per game. Cobalt66, Stingray and Big Mad Drongo all managed at or around 19 points per game but PurpleChest sneaked in with a lowly 18.86. Well done!

Lockouts, we all know how tough it is to prevent your opponent scoring a single point in a game. This award is for those masters of the game who have turned defense into an art form. In fact these are so hard to come by this award is often not even awarded. And this season not a single player managed more than one lock-out, so no award this season. Please try harder.

An award for the real ironmen of the Alliance league. For those players who have for whatever reason had to carry their clan through the season. This season has been much more of a team effort with only a couple of clans having players taking more than a third of their total points. However, there is still a clear winner, Crimson Scales be thankful for Android Barker who this season took a massive 43% of your points to secure the Atlas award.

Every point counts in Alliance games and the 'Annihilator' award recognises those players who show their opponents no mercy. Those players who have racked up more of those magic 20 point score lines than any others. This season three players managed eight 20-x scorelines. Two of those managed eight from ten games played, so well done Gavgargan and Flash Panache. The award however, goes to Bobbajob who won all eight of his games this season by the magic amount.

The ‘Thriller’ award seeks to highlight those players who put entertainment over glory. Those players who game after game are involved in those matches that are just too tight to call right until the end. So this award goes to the player who has been involved in more games than anyone else that have been decided by a single point. This season there were many players involved in two thrillers, but Green26 was living on the edge in three. However, Big Mad Drongo's blood pressure must be in severe danger after having four one point finishes, well done and have a good rest.

Sometimes you find yourself snowed under, against the wall and drowning in the enemy. And then you pull off the most amazing run of kills, skills and destruction to grab the game back from your opponent. This season, the forum inhabitants voted for the winner. ijml and brootal sadly lost out leaving the ultimate winner to be orkboi. From being 11-0, 15-3, 20-10 and 24-19 down his spawn killed the last enemy XT with 2.5 seconds left in the game.

The ‘Oops’ award is for those players who made the ultimate blunder, killing more of their own troops in one fell swoop than their opponents could possibly dream of. In another forum vote, even steven fought off ojml and palebalckness with his appallingly stupid closing of a forcefield with his MT sat in the middle. Whoops!

Image is everything and for the best image of Alliance season, a special award. With entries from Ugly Toy, Nimzomitch, tonj444 and diceman, the forum voted ultimately for diceman with a lovely image of six sentries with a sweet little missile aimed straight at them. BOOM!

In October 2004 the LSN community heard of the passing away of Pearse Guina, better known to us as The Least Among Us. As founder, long time captain and player of the Rock N Roll Suicides, Least gave a great deal to LSN and Alliance in particular. As a special memorial, we have created a new award in his honour, The Least Among Us Veterans Award. To reward those long term players in Alliance, the requirements are simple, to have played at least one game in every season of Alliance with the ultimate winner being decided by their contribuition in the season just passed. This season there were seven candidates. In reverse order: The Least Among Us, Quick Ben, Jospee, Pureplchest, Trebor, Big Mad Drongo and the winner, yurisputnik.