The 2021 Cacowards

[Major Arlene]

The 2021 Cacowards are live! Once again, it's time to celebrate or grumble, whichever works best for you, and hope you enjoy the awards!

[Scuba Steve]

First post.

[leodoom85]

Congrats to all the winners, runner-ups and all the people who worked in this award, despite that has a rough year for everyone. 

And Doom is more than alive...and of course, will still kick ass.

[Dynamo]

It's been a pleasure working on this! And I couldn't have asked for better teammates. Hope everyone enjoys what we've worked on, and I look forward to many more good releases next year :)

[Omniarch]

At long last! 'tis most gratifying to see this finally go live! Truly, it has been a great honour contributing to this most prestigious event. Congratulations to the winners, and hats off to all the myriad creators who, through their efforts, made Doom's 28th year a bounteous one indeed. Cheers!

[Obsidian]

Fucking round of applause for the Cacoward team for this year's effort as well, y'all really outdid yourselves with this one.

[Decay]

Good picks, good wads, good write ups. A little puzzled on the insanity dm award (given it's a mod rather than mapset? Not that it isn't deserving, I just figured it would be in another category) but otherwise solid and some surprising picks. Looking forward to another year of quality wads!

[Remilia Scarlet]

Yay, another year of Doom :D

[Lizardcommando]

Hooray for the winners! I'm gonna have to check these maps and mods out later.

[Peter]

EDIT:

Great thanks to @rd. for publicly announcing the Community Original Content Project which means I must edit this post.

 

Original post below and to clarify, yes I was disappointed by seeing the boom of MIDI packs this year mentioned only on the sidebar which isn't indexed or easily searchable. But I need to make myself clear. I was not demanding a Cacoward for myself, just more visible acknowledgement of the MIDI pack boom for the benefit of all the musicians involved:

Spoiler

 

There were so many MIDI packs that were released this year, a huge boom of MIDI packs from so many talented people and you decided not to mention any of it?

 

Not even a single word?

 

Shout outs to decino, @JD Herrera @Cammy @TrialD @Sego @Bloo @Sumo @leejacksonaudio @northivanastan @Doomkid @Xulgonoth and the rest of the Doom MIDI musicians who have been working hard these year, contributing to all these MIDI packs. Sorry we all got completely slept on in the Cacowards.

 

 

Edited December 23, 2021 by Peter

[DannyMan]

I congratulate the winners

[NuMetalManiak]

I had literally no idea Rand Phares died, RIP

Predicted that Lullaby, TPH, Heartland, Arrival and kraflab would get awards, A:Z would get a silver, and many megawads mentioned yippee.

Oh boy the wiki is gonna get more new stuff too. One thing I would have liked more if I may criticize, was more attention to Doomwiki, specifically @Xymph and his tireless work with the place (unless I missed it). Couldn't stress how well Xymph makes the place grow.

Really nice I got to experience most of these except for the TCs and gameplay mods this year before these awards came out too.

 

IMO, that screenshot for Fractured Worlds isn't good. NEEDS MOAR BLUE

Refracted Reality was the biggest snub apparently.

Edited December 10, 2021 by NuMetalManiak : will probs add more

[scwiba]

Holy shit this is an honor beyond my wildest dreams

[Obsidian]

1 minute ago, Peter said:

There were so many MIDI packs that were released this year, a huge boom of MIDI packs from so many talented people and you decided not to mention any of it?

 

Not even a single word?

 

If I could direct your attention to the right of this page...

[Dynamo]

3 minutes ago, Peter said:

There were so many MIDI packs that were released this year, a huge boom of MIDI packs from so many talented people and you decided not to mention any of it?

 

Not even a single word?Shout outs to decino, @JD Herrera @Cammy @TrialD @Sego @Bloo @Sumo @leejacksonaudio @northivanastan @Doomkid @Xulgonoth and the rest of the Doom MIDI musicians who have been working hard these year, contributing to all these MIDI packs. Sorry we all got completely slept on in the Cacowards.

Uh, but we did write about it... Check the other awards section.

[HavoX]

A very well deserved congratulations to all the winners. You've earned it.

 

And thank YOU, everyone, for keeping the community alive and strong after 28 years!

[Catpho]

4 minutes ago, Peter said:

Not even a single word?

Great to see a passionate shoutout, but there were quite a few words for it! (Look at the sidebar)

 

Edit: Fist bumps @Obsidian

[Peter]

3 minutes ago, Dynamo said:

Uh, but we did write about it... Check the other awards section.

🤦‍♂️ thrown into the sidebar instead of a proper post? So easy to overlook to the point of someone actually searching for it can easily miss it.

[pcorf]

It was a crazy year with so many amazing releases. And I'm sure next year we will see many more unique releases. Although I am a classic fan, Lullaby was my favorite release for 2021, it was simply mind blowing.

[Csonicgo]

Eternity Engine finally gets recognition. :D

[notTyrone]

Congrats, everyone!  So much quality content this year, can't imagine how anyone could sort through and pick the best of the best.  Absolutely mad lol

[Joshy]

Great work on the Cacowards guys, so much quality work to comb through and pick from this year. Congrats to all the winners, runnerups, and mentions! Xaser and Tarnsman are absolute inspirational champs, I'm glad they've received proper recognitions they deserve.

[Breezeep]

[Snakes]

Oh my God, I'm back again!

 

Congrats to all 2021 Cacowards winners! I will continue to open Doombuilder and cry between sessions of enjoying your magnificent work

[baja blast rd.]

'Grats. This was easily my favorite year participating. Happy I got to play and write about everything I did. 

(edit: I wish I had more to say here, but I used up a lot of my words elsewhere :>) 

[dew]

15 minutes ago, Peter said:

🤦‍♂️ thrown into the sidebar instead of a proper post? So easy to overlook to the point of someone actually searching for it can easily miss it.

Dear lord, what a bitchfest. Aren't you decino's basement sidekick? It's probably good when you're just focusing on work and not being paraded publicly.

[LadyMistDragon]

Congratulations to all of the winners! It's truly amazing and gratifying to be so overloaded with quality this year! Here's to many more! (I am a little sad Skulltiverse didn't make runner-up but you know). If the runner-up all have bits on them, Ive got to see them.

Edited December 10, 2021 by LadyMistDragon

[antares031]

Happy 28th anniversary of Doom, and kudos to all the winners, runner-ups, and the Cacowards team. Another year, another fantastic community-made creations, and another award article with great volume and quality. And shout-out to @Xaser for winning the Espi award this year. Very well deserved lifetime achievement award for the veteran "Master of all Trades".

 

It's amazing to see that now the Cacowards features twelve winners, instead of ten. With so many great mapsets and megawads to play, it's no wonder the team had to pick more entries for the winners. And, oh wow, I am really happy to see that we now have a silver cacoward trophy for every runner-up, with the article on the main page. Much appreciated for granting my wish this year! Runner-ups definitely deserve more love, rather than staying on the sidebar.

 

With all of these amazing stuffs for just 28th anniversary, I can't even imagine what we're going to have for the 30th birthday of Doom, just 2 years later. If there are community members, who're working on their special projects for that special time, good luck and have fun! :)

[PRIMEVAL]

Congratulations to all of you beautiful people!

[Death Bear]

WHAT. A. YEAR! Congrats, everyone! Such inspiring work!