Totallympics Awards 2022

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Official Schedule

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22ND
00:00 First Stage Voting Opens

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30TH
23:00 First Stage Voting Deadline

SUNDAY, JANUARY 1ST
18:00 Totallympics Awards Nominations
20:00 Second Stage Voting Opens

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6TH
23:00 Second Stage Voting Deadline

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8TH
16:00 Totallympics Awards Ceremony

 

Edited January 7, 2023 by vinipereira

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Edited January 7, 2023 by vinipereira

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Hi, Totallympics' members! Welcome to the Totallympics Awards, a celebration of the year in sports. We invite you to take part in the voting process that will elect the best in sports from 2022 in multiple categories – including the two big prizes for Best Male Athlete and Best Female Athlete. Which better place than Totallympics, the Home of Olympic Sports, to recognize your favorites athletes and teams?

 

For the returning edition of the award, we hope to count with voters from as many nations as possible. If you want to participate, please follow the instructions in the third post of this thread. You are allowed to make comments and suggestions of your personal preferences in this thread. Below, we explain the categories and voting process in details.

 

 

Categories

 

• Best Male Athlete

 

• Best Female Athlete

 

• Best Non-Olympic Athlete

 

• Best Paralympic Athlete

 

• Best Youth Athlete

 

• Best Men's Team

 

• Best Women's Team

 

• Best Doubles or Pair

 

• Breakthrough of the Year

 

• Sport Moment of the Year

 

• Olympic Spirit Award

 

 

Special Awards

 

• Totallympics' Stars Award

 

• Lifetime Achievement Award

 

 

The Totallympics Awards will consist of 11 categories (each with 6 nominees) and two special awards. The top categories are Best Male Athlete and Best Female Athlete, in which voters will recognize the best athletes of the year in Olympic sports only (Summer or Winter). Such restriction applies only to these categories. Athletes that participate in sports outside of the Olympic Games will be up for the Non-Olympic Athlete award – a category that will combine male and female athletes, as well for all other individual categories.

 

The Paralympic Athlete award will acknowledge the outstanding names that highlighted the Paralympic movement in 2022. The Breakthrough of the Year is a category for the most improved athlete/team of the year, while younger athletes will be up for Best Youth Athlete, a category for the talents up to 18 years old – to be eligible, an athlete must have been born after 1 January 2004.

 

Although athletes of Team sports can be nominated for all the individual awards, they will also be in the running for two other categories: Best Men's Team and Best Women's Team. As the name suggests, national teams or groups (of three people or more) can be nominated in these categories, in both Olympic and Non-Olympic sports, Paralympic sports included. Sportspeople competing in 2-athlete events will be up for the Best Doubles or Pair award.

 

The Sport Moment of the Year award will bring the moments that thrilled sports fans in 2022, while the Olympic Spirit Award is a category for people related to the 2022 Winter Olympics or Paralympics and will be given to the individuals who exemplify the spirit of sportsmanship in the Games or showed great determination in overcoming obstacles. As for the special categories, the Totallympics' Stars award will celebrate the forum members, while the Lifetime Achievement will recognize retired sport personalities that have made a contribution to sports world. Both awards won't have a list of nominees, only winners.

 

 

 

Voting System

 

FIRST STAGE OF VOTING

 

The first stage of voting will happen from Thursday, December 22nd to Friday, December 30th. Voters will choose, in order of preference, a minimum of 3 athletes or teams and a maximum of 6 for each category in which they decide to vote – with the exception of Best Male Athlete and Best Female Athlete, voters can decide if they will vote in other categories or not. In this stage, voters are allowed to choose athletes/teams from their own nation, however, out of the 6 possible choices, voters are only allowed to vote for 1 athlete or team of their own nation per category.

 

In each category, votes (in order of preference) will be converted into points, following the system explained below:

 

 

After the points are counted, the top 6 with most points in each category will advance for the second stage. A tiebreaker will be used when there's a tie in points for the 6th spot, prevailing the number of votes each one received, and then the number of #1 votes. If the tie persists, a random draw will be conducted to determine the final nominee. The nominees list for the Totallympics Awards will be announced Sunday, January 1st, 2023.

 

 

SECOND STAGE OF VOTING

 

The second stage of voting will happen from Sunday, January 1st to Friday, January 6th. Voters will rank a maximum of 3 favourite nominees in each category, but they also can make a single choice per category. As in the first stage, votes will be converted into points, but this time around a little bit differently, as seen below:

 

 

After the voting process is over, the nominees with most points in each category will become winners of 2022 Totallympics Awards. Like in first stage, a tiebreaker will be necessary when two or more nominees have the same number of points, prevailing the number of votes, and then the number of #1 votes. If the tie persists, results of first stage will be considered. Along with the Totallympics' Stars and the Lifetime Achievement awards, they will be announced in a live ceremony Sunday, January 8th, which will bring together Totallympics' users in a celebration of the year in sports.

 

Edited January 1, 2023 by vinipereira

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FIRST STAGE OF VOTING

 

All Totallympics members can vote, but voters must follow some rules:

 

• In all categories, votes must be written in order of preference;

 

• Votes are required, at least, for the Best Female and Best Male Athlete awards;

 

• You don't have to vote in all categories, but at least 3 choices are required in the categories you vote;

 

• You can vote for athletes and teams from your own nation, but only 1 vote is allowed in each category.

 

 

Voters will copy the design below and, after voting in the categories you want, send the votes to @vinipereira.

 

Voters have until Friday, December 30th to vote. Please contact me if you have any questions.

 

 

Voting Design

 

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BEST FEMALE ATHLETE

for sportswomen in Olympic sports

 

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BEST MALE ATHLETE

for sportsmen in Olympic sports

 

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BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Paralympic sports

 

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BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE

for athletes in Non-Olympic sports

 

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BEST YOUTH ATHLETE

for any athlete up to 18 years old (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports)

 

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BEST MEN'S TEAM

for men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports)

 

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BEST WOMEN'S TEAM

for women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports)

 

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BEST DOUBLES OR PAIR

for doubles or pairs (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports)

 

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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR

for the most improved athlete or team (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports)

 

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SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR

for any sport moment from 2022 (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports)

 

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OLYMPIC SPIRIT AWARD

for any athlete or team that took part in the 2022 Winter Olympics or Paralympics

 

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Edited December 27, 2022 by vinipereira

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SECOND STAGE OF VOTING

 

 

Voting for the 2022 Totallympics Awards winners is open (click the image above).

 

All Totallympics members can vote, including those who didn't vote in the first stage.

 

• Before voting, don't forget to include your Totallympics' username. The list of voters will be updated here.

 

• For each category, you can rank a maximum of three nominees of your preference, following the order:

 

                    #1 (20 points)

 

                    #2 (10 points)

 

                    #3 (5 points)

 

• You don't have to rank 3 nominees. You can rank 2 or simply pick only one (20 points) per category;

 

• You don't have to vote in all categories, only the ones you want. Votes can be edited until the deadline.

 

Voters have until Friday, January 6th to vote. Please contact me if you have any questions.

 

Edited January 1, 2023 by vinipereira

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Hello, everybody! I thought that maybe it was a good idea to bring back the Totallympics Awards. For those who don't remember (or weren't here), these awards were presented in 2014 and 2015 in the old forum and celebrate the best of the year in sports. As I don't have those records, the 2022 edition can now be considered the first?

 

Anyway, I hope many of you have interest in participate (I will be adding the voters names in the second post). It's allowed to campaign in this thread for your favourites. Suggestions are always welcome especially in "tricky" categories like Breakthrough, Youth Athlete, Sport Moment of the Year, and the Olympic Spirit award.

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The Vinies are back

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Thank you for the great initiatiave @vinipereira!

 

I wonder how everyone is going to define breakthrough and youth athletes. Remco Evenepoel had already won races before 2022, but I feel like this year was his real breakthrough. Meanwhile Summer McIntosh still qualifies for the Youth Athlete category, but also had a breakthrough year at senior level.

 

Also, is Lionel Messi a 'Non-Olympic athlete', because senior level football is not Olympic on the mens side?

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4 hours ago, vinipereira said:

Suggestions are always welcome especially in "tricky" categories like Breakthrough, Youth Athlete, Sport Moment of the Year, and the Olympic Spirit award

As usual, I do not want and will not vote for athletes from my country. But this time I have to make an exception.

 

At the same time, Iet me please, allow myself to unusually nominate as a potential candidate for the Best Youngest Athlete of the Year an athlete from my own country.

 

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There are not many young athletes in the world who have achieved what he did this year, and I dare say that there are not many even in the entire history.

 

February 2022

He became the top scorer of this year Olympic ice hockey tournament as the youngest player ever,

was named the most valuable player (MVP) of the Olympic tournament as the youngest player ever

and was named to the All-Stars team of the Olympic tournament ...yeah, you guessed right, as the youngest player ever.

Above all, especially and literally mainly thanks to him, Slovakia won a shocking and historic bronze medal at the Olympic Tournament.

 

May 2022

At the World Champs in May, he was again our best player by far, the most productive player. the leader of the team that got Slovakia to the quarter-finals and where we were very close to another sensational upset and qualification to the semifinals over the home invincible Finland.

 

July 2022

And in July, he completely rewrote the history of his country, region, and basically Europe, when he became only the ninth European draft as Number 1 in the NHL Draft .

 

Today

Today, he is the only one from this entire draft year to still playing in the NHL itself. which is itself an uncredible thing. absolutely crazy thing for a 18 year old kid.

 

 

Today Juraj Slafkovský (pic available on my avatar) is still only 18 years old, at the Olympics he was 17 and had to play with the well-known protective grid/mask on the helmet that young hockey players have to wear.

Edited December 21, 2022 by hckošice

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57 minutes ago, Jinzha said:

Thank you for the great initiatiave @vinipereira!

 

I wonder how everyone is going to define breakthrough and youth athletes. Remco Evenepoel had already won races before 2022, but I feel like this year was his real breakthrough. Meanwhile Summer McIntosh still qualifies for the Youth Athlete category, but also had a breakthrough year at senior level.

 

Also, is Lionel Messi a 'Non-Olympic athlete', because senior level football is not Olympic on the mens side?

For Evenepoel, I assume this was his best year yet? So that's kinda what the category is meant for. As for best youth athlete, I would vote for talents that show the greatest potential for a successful carreer. But if things are to confunsing, maybe we could leave only the Breakthrough category and delete the Youth award.

 

Football should be considered Olympic, no matter what age.