Meeting Logs

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Meeting One (April 5th)

Meeting Two (April 11th)

Meeting Three (April 19th)

Meeting Four (April 25th)

Meeting Five (May 3rd)

Meeting Six (May 9th)

Meeting Seven (May 17th)

 

[Sparks]

April 5, 2025 (meeting one - logs)

Hi everyone! I'm Sparks, the Meeting Summarizer for the 2024-2025 Awards Committee! After every meeting we have, I will post a summary of that meeting. This is the one for April 5, 2025!

In this meeting, we went over some of the basics, came up with plans, uncovered potential issues, assigned some roles and even began discussing some of the Mario Awards! And good news to Mario & Luigi: Brothership fans: Connie and Technikki are included!

Without further ado, enjoy the summary!

ROLES

• Meeting summarizer: Sparks
• Particular interest: Someone to fix image links in old Awards Boards, could be Waluigi Time

AWARDS NUMBERS:

We currently have 45 awards

• 20 Mario Awards
• 10 Fail Awards
• 15 Community Awards

45 is a good number! Everything remains the same.

MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS

• Shorter and "less energy required" events seem to do better than longer ones that require high availability
• One-off games seem interesting
• Gaming nights (Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Mario Party) are brought up, as well as Gartic Phone. It's a drawing telephone game.

BONUS STARS

• "Most unexpected result" is an idea, it's for the winner of an award that nobody expected (like a write-in vote). More time is needed however.

(VISUAL) IDENTITY

• Little things to promote the event
• Roserade (if time permits) will "circusify" everyone.
• Hooded Pitohui may try his hand at a small piece of art! Also might create an image for bluesky
• Little things to uphold momentum and excitement until the awards ceremony itself.

The Nintendo Switch 2 releases after all the meetings and 9 days before the polls open, so the committee agrees to do a possible emergency meeting due to the release of the console and Mario Kart World.

• Will decide on what to do when we get closer.
• Maybe the tenth meeting gets pushed back a week?

OPEN FLOOR (ADDITIONAL THINGS)

• We may swap nominees within awards
• No Donkey Kong Bananza Awards, they're past the polls.
• Emergency meeting likely, timing to be determined, Kart Direct in under two weeks
• August 22 is when the ceremony takes place!

START WITH MARIO AWARDS (We had 50 minutes to spare, so got a head start on discussing the awards themselves!)

MARIO AWARDS XVIII

Key:

• Red = Remove
• Green = Keep
• Blue = So-so (will revisit the award in the future, may get removed/changed)

• M1. Favorite Major Character: Green! Pauline and Nabbit were considered to join the list, but were both rejected. We may revisit Pauline's nomination once more Donkey Kong Bananza information is released.
• M2. Favorite Supporting Character: Green!
  
  • Penny and Talking Flower are added!
  • Grape and Stella got removed.
• M3. Favorite Mario RPG Character: Green!
  
  • Connie, Technikki, Yoshi Kid and Starlow join the list!
  • Popple, Lord Crump, Booster and King Olly are removed.
• M4. Favorite Power-up: Green! Everything is left as-is for now. There may be some reworking to it later.
• M5. Favorite Enemy: Blue! We might convert this one to "Favorite species", mostly due to the upcoming Mario Kart World.
• M6. Favorite In-game Track: Green! We ran out of time after voting to keep this. We'll look further into this first thing next meeting!

 

[Sparks]

April 11, 2025 (meeting two - logs)

During this meeting, we briefly went over past points made during the last meeting before spending the majority of it discussing Mario Awards! We removed two of them (Favorite Wonder Effect and Favorite Princess Peach: Showtime! Transformation) and will discuss some of these in the near future, especially the ones relating to Mario Kart thanks to the upcoming Mario Kart World.

We didn't get through all of the awards thoroughly. The final three awards were just introduced and will be discussed further in the next meeting.

Have fun reading everyone!

POINTS FROM LAST WEEK and CONTINUE WITH MARIO AWARDS

Points from last week - Discuss last week's decision points if needed

• Zange will happily do an audio or video thing if anyone needs them to do one.

Key:

• Red = Remove
• Green = Keep
• Blue = So-so (will revisit the award in the future, may get removed/changed)

CONTINUE WITH MARIO AWARDS

• M6. Favorite Musical Track: Keep! This award was changed from "Favorite In-game Track" to its current name to include musical tracks from any Mario media, including licensed or lyrical tracks.
  • Add: Toad's Factory (Mario Kart Wii), Boss Theme (Mario & Luigi: Brothership) and Peaches (The Super Mario Bros. Movie)
  • Remove: Piranha Plants on Parade (Super Mario Bros. Wonder), X-Naut Fortress (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) and Battling a Weapon Boss (Super Mario RPG)
  • "Ignorance is Bliss" was suggested, but it did not get added.

• M7. Favorite Soundtrack: Keep! No changes at the moment, but once Mario Kart World releases we will revisit this award.

• M8. Favorite Game Mechanic: Keep!
  • Add: Battle Plugs (Mario & Luigi: Brothership)
  • Remove: Gooigi (Luigi's Mansion 3)
  • Luigi Logic from Mario & Luigi: Brothership was suggested, but it didn't make it.

• M9. Favorite 2D Platformer: Keep! There was a suggestion to merge this with "Favorite 3D Platformer", but no merge occurred.
  • Add: Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)
  • Remove: New Super Mario Bros. 2

• M10. Favorite 3D Platformer: So-so! This award is considered stale over the past few years due to Super Mario Odyssey's dominance, but also considered a staple award. We will look back at this later.

• M11. Favorite Super Mario Bros. Wonder Level: So-so! High-placing write-in is considered tempting and interest was expressed in keeping it if "Favorite Wonder Effect" was removed, but due to the game being less prominent today as it was last year, this award is also considered a possible release year one-and-done. We will come back to this later.

• M12. Favorite Wonder Effect: Remove! Wonder Effects aren't as they were last year, and we already have a Super Mario Bros. Wonder Award.

• M13. Favorite Princess Peach: Showtime! Transformation: Remove! The game did not perform well last year and it was a one-and-done Award anyway.

• M14. Favorite Bowser Battle: Keep!
  • Add: Glohm Bowser (Mario & Luigi: Brothership) and Bowser/Kammy Koopa (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)
  • Remove: Dry Bowser/Big Dry Bowser (New Super Mario Bros. 2) and Baby Bowser/Mega Baby Bowser. (Yoshi's Wooly World)
  • There was a suggestion to add Bowser Kaboom Squad from Super Mario Party Jamboree to replace "Bowser"/King Boo (Luigi's Mansion) but it didn't happen.

• M15. Favorite Non-Bowser Boss Battle: Keep! This award has been changed from "Favorite Boss Battle" to its current name because there's already an award dedicated to Bowser battles. It's also to hopefully deter people from writing in Bowser.
  • Add: Zokket (Mario & Luigi: Brothership)
  • Remove: Kingfin (Super Mario Galaxy)
  • Sharpcask, Pipegunk and Reclusa were considered but they were not added.

• M16. Favorite Mario Kart Item: Keep! We will deal with this later!

• M17. Favorite Mario Kart Course: Keep! We will also wait until later before dealing with this one.

The following three awards will all be kept. All of them are on the table for being renamed. These awards will be discussed further.

• M18. Favorite Retro Game (N64/GBC and older)

• M19. Favorite Classic Game (GCN/GBA through Wii/DS)

• M20. Favorite Modern Game (Wii U/3DS and newer)

And then we ran out of time! We will pick back up with the last three Mario Awards in the next meeting!

 

[Sparks]

April 19, 2025 (meeting 3 - logs)

In this meeting, we have finished up the Mario Awards and got far into the Fail Awards!

AGENDA

• Points from last week - discuss last week's decision points if needed
• Finish the Mario Awards - Discuss M18 - M20
• Start with Fail Awards - Start with F1

POINTS FROM LAST WEEK

• The description for M6 (Favorite Musical Track) was updated for better clarity.

FINISH THE MARIO AWARDS

Name changes for these three awards!

• M18. Favorite Retro game (N64/GBC and older)
• M19. Favorite Classic game (GCN/GBA through Wii/DS)
• M20. Favorite Modern game (Wii U/3DS and newer)

They are now:

• M18. Favorite game (N64/GBC and older)
• M19. Favorite game (GCN/GBA through Wii/DS)
• M20. Favorite game (Wii U/3DS and newer)

The descriptive adjectives were dropped because they were not distinguishing enough, so we instead went with console generations.

Now into the awards themselves:

Key:

• Red = Remove
• Green = Keep
• Blue = So-so (will revisit the award in the future, may get removed/changed)

• M18. Favorite game (N64/GBC and older): Keep!
  • There was a suggestion to remove Super Mario Kart and Super Mario Land, they would've been replaced with Mario Bros. (G&W) and Super Mario All-Stars, but it didn't go through.

• M19. Favorite game (GCN/GBA through Wii/DS): Keep!
  • There were suggestions to swap out Donkey Kong Country Returns with either Mario Party 9 or Mario Party 6, but no changes were made.

• M20. Favorite game (Wii U/3DS and newer): Keep!
  • Add: Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Mario Kart World, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Super Mario Party Jamboree
  • Remove: Paper Mario: Color Splash, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Mario Party Superstars and WarioWare Gold

FAIL AWARDS

• F1. Most Forgettable Game: Keep! This award is going to be retooled entirely. In other words, it will be built from scratch. We will discuss this award later.

• F2. Worst Power-up: Remove! The award was stale, it had a similar top 3 for three years and Super Mario Bros. Wonder did not change it.

• F3. Worst Enemy: So-so! We will discuss this later. The way this award is built may not be achieving its aims, as the voters tend to think the hardest enemies are the "worst".

• F4. Worst Obstacle: Keep!
  • Add: Bottomless Pit
  • Remove: Bolt Lift
  • There was a suggestion to replace either grinder or spinner for weeping lotuses, but no change was made.

• F5. Worst Level Concept: Keep!
  • There was a suggestion to remove Red Coin Missions (Super Mario Sunshine) and replace it with either Refreshing Levels (Super Mario Maker) or Stealth sections (Mario & Luigi: Brothership), but the change did not make it through.

• F6. Worst Game Mechanic: Keep!
  • Add: Jamboree Buddies (Super Mario Party Jamboree) and Battle Plugs not recharging until depleted (Mario & Luigi: Brothership)
  • Remove: Dimensional Flipping (Super Paper Mario) and Patisserie Peach transformation (Princess Peach: Showtime!)
  • Removing the Extra Life system in favor of Luigi Logic (Mario & Luigi: Brothership) or Unavailable strategies (Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition) was an idea, but no changes occurred.

• F7. Worst Boss Battle: Keep! Bowser generator is now known as Mecha Maker.
  • Add: Bowser (Paper Mario: Sticker Star) and Wonder Bowser Jr. from Super Mario Bros. Wonder
  • Remove: King Boo (Luigi's Mansion 3) and Topmaniac from Super Mario Galaxy

We did not vote on this next award due to time constraints, but we have suggestions:

• F8. Worst Mario Kart Course Remake: Keep! We'll come back to this award later.
  • Considering to add: SNES Mario Circuit 3 (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe), 3DS Toad Circuit (Mario Kart 8 Deluxe), GBA Cheese Land (Mario Kart 8) and N64 Rainbow Road (Mario Kart 8)​
  • Considering to remove: DK Pass​

Also, congratulations to @janMisali for joining the Awards Committee!

 

[Sparks]

April 25, 2025 (meeting 4 - logs)
In this meeting we finished up the Fail Awards and covered many of the Community Awards! There will be discussions on some of these awards (especially the Community Awards) later on.

AGENDA

• Points from last week – discuss last week's decision points if needed
• Cover Fn1 – discuss the name and nominees of Most Mid Game
• Continue Fail Awards – continue discussing the Fail awards from F8
• Start with Community Awards – start with C1

FAIL AWARDS

COVER Fn1

• Most Forgettable Game has been changed to Most Unremarkable Game.

Nominees that will be included in Most Unremarkable Game:

• Princess Peach: Showtime!
• New Super Mario Bros. 2
• New Super Mario Bros. U
• Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
• Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey
• Mario Party Advance
• Mario Golf: Super Rush
• Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash
• Mario Strikers: Battle League
• Mario Party: Island Tour

CONTINUE FAIL AWARDS

Key:

• Red = Remove
• Green = Keep
• Blue = So-so (will revisit the award in the future, may get removed/changed)

• F8. Worst Mario Kart Course Remake: Keep!We will revisit this Award when Mario Kart World releases.
  • Add: SNES Mario Circuit 3 (8D), 3DS Toad Circuit (8D), GBA Cheese Land (8), N64 Rainbow Road (8)
  • Remove: DS DK Pass (7)

• F9. Worst Remake: Keep!
  • Add: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, Luigi's Mansion 2 HD
  • Remove: None.
  • Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Nintendo Switch) was suggested to be added to the list, but it did not happen.

• F10. Most Shameless Business Decision: Keep!
  • Add: Pricing the tech demo (Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour) instead of bundling it with the console, Pricing Mario Kart World higher than comparable products, Inconsistent crediting of developers and other staff
  • Remove: Failing to properly credit original creators of remade or reused content (This was refined into a broader nominee - "Inconsistent crediting of developers and other staff")
  • There was a suggestion to add Game Key Cards and The pre-order limitation thing (2 years of NSO to required to pre-order the Nintendo Switch 2) to the list, but both did not go through.

COMMUNITY AWARDS

• C1. Favorite Active 'Shroom Writer: Keep! We will start this Award from scratch.

• C2. Favorite 'Shroom Section Design: Keep!
  • Add: Cooking Guide (ClawgripFan9001), Story Without Text (Aomaf), To-Do Tracker (Camwoodstock), Musical Quiz (Ninja Quiz), Pixel Personas (Sparks), Brothership Boss Battle Guide (Sparks)
  • Remove: Galactic Expedition (Meta Knight), Koops, Your Emblem is on Fire (Koops), Site Seeing (Lakituthequick), Overlook Mountain Auction House Presents, The Mariospective (Goombuigi), Crossword (MarioMorty)

• C3. Favorite Written 'Shroom Section of the Past Year: Keep! This Award will also start with a blank slate due to so many sections.

We are removing some nominees however:

• Remove: Meta's Poem (Meta Knight), Poll Committee Discussion (13th Poll Committee), Sport Report (ClawgripFan9001)

• C4. Favorite Retired 'Shroom Section: Keep!
  • Add: Peddler's Place (Toadbert101), It's-a Mii! (casual Koopa), A Report on the Effectiveness of Power-Ups (Shoey), Mushroom Kingdom Smackdown (Waluigi Time), Site Seeing (Lakituthequick), Poll Committee Discussion (13th Poll Committee)
  • Remove: Super Nintendo Entertainment Reviews (Ninelevendo), Ask Cappy (MaximumRK), Dear Bowser (Doomhiker), World of Plight (Magolor04726), Poetry Puzzle (The Shamancer), To Infinity and Beyond (Waluigi Time)

• C5. Favorite 'Shroom Team: Keep!

• C6. Favorite 'Shroom Special Issue: Keep!
  • Add: Issue 208 (Thousand-Year Door), Issue 211 (Anton, Halloween)
  • Remove: Issue 160 (Dr. Mario, Summer), Issue 165 (Shroobs, holidays)

• C7. Favorite Issue 200 Guest Section: Remove! One-off Award.

• C8. Favorite Issue 200 Special Feature: Remove! One-off Award.

• C9. Favorite Artist: Keep! This Award is starting from a blank slate as well.

• C10. Favorite 2024 Awards Presentation: Keep! Once again will start from a blank slate.

• C11. Favorite BJAODN Entry: Keep! We will add to this Award later due to running out of time.

There are some nominees that will be removed however:

• Remove: Bowser, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, "Crotch-Face Guy", Mushroom Kingdom

Additionally, C13. Favorite Community Character and C15. Outstanding Community Achievement Award will be discussed ahead of time.

Thanks for reading!

 

[Sparks]

May 3, 2025 (meeting 5 - logs)

In this meeting, we briefly looked at an Award from last week and provided nominations for threads also discussed during the last meeting. Also, we got through all of the Community Awards and examined all of the Awards that have been removed/have to be revisited. Finally, potential ideas for new replacement Awards are thrown out!

AGENDA

• Points from last week - Discuss last week's discussion points if needed
• Cover thread nominations - Discuss nominees suggested in the past week
• Continue Community Awards - Continue discussing the Community awards with C11
• Look at the bins - Have a look at removed awards and potential replacements

POINTS FROM LAST WEEK

For C4. Favorite Retired 'Shroom Section, We removed Rose's Quarantine Reviews and added Horrorscopes by GBA.

CONTINUE THREAD NOMINATIONS

• F1. Most Unremarkable Game: Four nominees have been added!
  • Mario Party: The Top 100
  • Mario Party: Star Rush
  • Mario Party Superstars
  • Paper Mario: Color Splash

• C1: Favorite Active 'Shroom Writer
  • Added: Boo1268, DryBonesBandit, Paper Plumm, Sparks, Zange, Camwoodstock, Ninja Squid
  • Removed: Quizmelon, Meta Knight, Goombuigi, GPM1000, MarioMorty
  • ViableBunnyBudd was suggested, but didn't get added.

• C3. Favorite Written 'Shroom Section of the Past Year
  • Added: An Overly Detailed and Funny Walkthrough of Mega Man (Sparks), A Section of Muppetational Origins (Zange), Cooking Guide (ClawgripFan9001), Dry Dry Data (DryBonesBandit), Killing the Killing Game Roles (Roserade), 'Shroom FM (MCD), The Spectral Lens (Boo1268)
  • Removed: The Mariospective (Goombuigi), File City Files (Shoey), The Anatomy of a Pikmin (Shoey), Shine Get (Waluigi Time)

• C9. Favorite Artist
  • Added: Boo1268, eviemaybe, Legend 8, Ninja Squid, Paper Plumm, RHG1951, TipoTimido33, Woglril, Citri
  • Removed: Lakituthequick, Anton, Flygon64, Roserade, Fun With Despair, Meta Knight, MCD, MightyMario
  • Ghostly_Artisty and Fun With Despair with suggested, but both were not added.

• C10. Favorite 2024 Awards Presentation:The nominees!
  • C2. Favorite 'Shroom Section Design (Boo1268)
  • C3. Favorite Written 'Shroom Section of the Past Year (Waluigi Time)
  • C7. Favorite Issue 200 Guest Section (Zange)
  • C9. Favorite Artist (TPG)
  • C13. Favorite Community Character (Flygon64)
  • F1. Most Forgettable Game (MCD)
  • F2. Worst Power-up (Camwoodstock)
  • F7. Worst Boss Battle (Shoey)
  • F8. Worst Mario Kart Course Remake (BBQ Turtle)
  • F9. Worst Remake (winstein)
  • M4. Favorite Power-up (Camwoodstock)
  • M6. Favorite In-game Track (Zange)
  • M7. Favorite Soundtrack (Meta Knight)
  • M8. Favorite Game Mechanic (Smasher)
  • M11. Favorite Super Mario Bros. Wonder Level (Waluigi Time)
  • M12. Favorite Wonder Effect (Gabumon)
  • M15. Favorite Boss Battle (MCD)
  • M16. Favorite Mario Kart Item (Lakituthequick)
  • M17. Favorite Mario Kart Course (Hooded Pitohui)
  • M18. Favorite Retro Game (Turboo)

CONTINUE COMMUNITY AWARDS

Key:

• Red = Remove
• Green = Keep
• Blue = So-so (will revisit the award in the future, may get removed/changed)

• C11. Favorite BJAODN Entry
  • Added: Eely-Mouth, Davide Soliani, Boohemoth, Talk: Girls Frapple Snowland
  • Bonetail, Category:Characters who have kissed Mario, List of Paper Mario: Sticker Star glitches, Creeper, Hot Roderick, and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess were suggested, but did not make it.

• C12. Favorite Wiki April Fool's Event: Keep!
  • Added: Mario Kart 11 (2025)

• C13. Favorite Community Character: Keep!
  • Added: Bin Brothers, Commander Nebula, Cosmo Neko, Donna Quinones, Guard, Kay Faraday, Marcia, Mo, Pheel the Eel, Wheezlie S. Puff & Timothy, Specture Striker, Valerie Knotweed, CYMK, Herlock Shoomes, Dr. Reginald Bushroot/Buxbaum, ENA
  • Removed: Banana Man, BB, Big Wheel, Candace, Dr. Alexander Wexlyn, Enby, Hekki, Agent 30, TPG2 and Kingsbournes, Nadie, Nobu, Rene, Satoru Fujinuma, Soccer Dad Vector, Teller Vision, Toadette
  • Kazooie was initially nominated, but was removed for Bushroot.

• C14. Favorite Community Event 2024-2025: Keep! The list:
  • Amusing Awards Artifact Adventure
  • April Fool's Day 2025
  • Archipelago
  • Awards Ceremony 2024
  • Everyone is Mafia
  • Fantasy vs. Sci-Fi 'Shroomfest
  • Hide and Seek Competition
  • Mario Boards Mega Brawl 2
  • Minecraft Games 2024
  • Mushroom City Car Wash
  • Odyssey Investigations: AEAEA
  • Picture Pilgrimage
  • Scribble Labs 2: Double Vision!!
  • THE Scribble Smorgasbord
  • Vigilante Mafia

• C15. Outstanding Community Achievement Award: Keep!
  • Added: Yap, Nintendo101, Paper Plumm, Sparks, Superchao, Technetium, Toadbert101
  • Removed: Shoey, Meta Knight, MightyMario
  • Unchanged: GBA, Hooded Pitohui, Lakituthequick, Porplemontage, Roserade, TPG, Waluigi Time

LOOK AT THE BINS

These are the Awards that have been binned throughout the meetings:

• Blue bin
  • M5. Favorite Enemy
  • M10. Favorite 3D Platformer
  • M11. Favorite Super Mario Bros. Wonder Level
  • F3. Worst Enemy
• Red bin
  • M12. Favorite Wonder Effect
  • M13. Favorite Princess Peach: Showtime! Transformation
  • F1. Most Forgettable Game (replaced with Unremarkable)
  • F2. Worst Power-Up
  • C7. Favorite Issue 200 Guest Section
  • C8. Favorite Issue 200 Special Feature

Two new Awards join the list as replacements! They will be discussed behind the scenes.

• Favorite Mario Kart World Newcomer
• Wiki Contributor Award (2024-2025)

See you next week! Have a great Star Wars Day!

 

[Sparks]

May 9, 2025 (meeting 6 - logs)

In this meeting, we looked at nominees for two Community Awards before looking at binned Awards! We added new Awards and removed others too!

AGENDA

• Points from last week – discuss last week's decision points if needed
• Community Awards – discuss brought-up points for Favorite Artist and Outstanding Community Achievement Award, cover Wiki Contributor Award nominations
• Look at the bins – have a look at removed Awards and potential replacements
• Start full review – begin our full check over all Awards if time allows

POINTS FROM LAST WEEK

COMMUNITY AWARDS

• C9. Favorite Artist: The nominees remain unchanged, but non-visual art like writing (not related to The 'Shroom) and music will continue to be recognized as forms of art as well.

• C15. Outstanding Community Achievement Award
  • Five new nominees!
    • Shoey: "extensive work for the shroom and directing two specials as director"
    • BBQ Turtle: "lots of 'Shroom banners for a while, and is also a long-time and dedicated 'Shroom writers, and 'Shroom consultant"
    • Ninja Squid: "shroomfest co-host, graphic design manager, staff consultant, etc"
    • Fun With Despair: "for his efforts on the CYOA as a volunteer consultant"
    • Meta Knight: "for the tech work [on the CYOA] + sub-directing + statisticsing"
  • GBA has been removed from the reward by request.

• Wiki Contributor Award 2024-2025
  • New nominees!
    • The new noms are
    • Maw-Ray Master
    • Kaptain Skurvy
    • Nelsonic
    • 1468z
    • Mario

LOOK AT THE BINS

• Favorite Mario Party Minigame is a new Award! We will work on this one behind the scenes.

• Favorite 'Shroom Team has been removed because it was less dynamic than in the past and writers are being recognized through other Awards.
  • Favorite 'Shroom Guest Section (2024-2025) and Favorite Scribble Round have been added. Both of these sections will have threads on the Mario Boards for the Awards Committee to discuss.

• Favorite Written 'Shroom Section of the Past Year has been renamed to Favorite Written 'Shroom Section (2024-2025) for consistency with other Awards with timeframes.

• M5. Favorite Enemy is now green instead of blue! It's kept!
  • Add: Monty Mole, Buzzy Beetle, Spike
  • Remove: Wubba, Hoppycat, Bulrush
  • Toady was suggested, but didn't get in.

See you next time!

 

[Hooded Pitohui]

May 17, 2025 (meeting 7 - logs)

Due to an ill-timed power outage, Sparks was unable to prepare the meeting summary at the usual time. Thank you all for your patience!

AGENDA

• Points from last week – discuss last week's decision points if needed,
• Cover the threads – go over the nominations from this week's threads,
• Look at the bins – have a look at removed awards and potential replacements,
• Start full review – begin our full check over all awards if time allows

POINTS FROM LAST WEEK

• No changes made to last week's decisions

COVER THE THREADS

• Mn1 - Favorite Mario Kart World Newcomer - While the award cannot be finalized, an initial slate of nominees was chosen from revealed characters through a forum poll.
  • The nominees added to this award are: Penguin, Cataquack, Cow, Fish Bone, Goomba, Dolphin, Pianta, Piranha Plant, Snowman, Swoop, Para-Biddybud, Sidestepper, Stingby, Conkdor, Peepa, Pokey, Coin Coffer, and Rocky Wrench

• Mn2 - Favorite Mario Party Minigame - 25 nominations were drawn from forum suggestions. To trim these nominations down, a forum poll was created shortly after the meeting's end, and will be further reviewed next week.
  
  
• Cn1 - Wiki Contributor Award 2024-2025- On addition has been made to this award, bringing its nominee count up to 18.
  • Power Flotzo was added for creating threads focused on completing category articles on games such as Sticker Star, March of the Minis, and Amiibo Challenge

• Cn2 - Favorite 'Shroom Guest Section 2024-2025- Nominees for this award were initially narrowed down in a forum poll, and a runoff was held during the meeting to bring the count down to 20.
  • The following nominees were added:
    • Paper 'Shroom: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (The 'Shroom staff)
    • De Millenniumpoort, or a Girl Talking about a Localization (Catydoll409)
    • Mario And Luigi Brothership Custom Instruction Manual (ScaryStar)
    • PM:TTYD Casual Badge Tier List (Ninelevendo)
    • TV Tomorrow Commentary Tracks (Quizmelon)
    • Super Ninelevendo Entertainment Reviews (Ninelevendo)
    • Cosmo in Rogueport (TheBlueCatMenace)
    • Mouser's Bomb Blast (Boo1268)
    • Police Blotter (Technetium)
    • Respect for Ms. Mowz (Sparks)
    • Logic Puzzle (Meta Knight)
    • News Flush (Hooded Pitohui)
    • Setting the Stage (Hooded Pitohui)
    • TV Tomorrow Tribute (Waluigi Time)
    • Police Blotter (Waluigi Time),
    • Shoey's Shoetacular Reviews (Shoey),
    • Why Are You So Shaped? (Hooded Pitohui)
    • Character Parade (ClawgripFan9001)
    • A Curse Crackers: For Whom The Bell Toils Review (Paper Plumm)
    • The History of The Great and Powerful Trixie (Sparks)

• Cn3 - Favorite Scribble Round- Nominees were added through forum suggestions and during the meeting itself, pulling from all Scribble events to date.
  • The following nominees were added:
    • Let's-a-go! – Items/obstacles (Deathmatch '21, round 1)
    • Kaizo MarioWiki – Wacky articles (Deathmatch '21, round 6)
    • Abstraction – Raw emotion (Showdown '22, round 5)
    • Business (Scrabble '23, round 3)
    • Reflection (Scrabble '23, round 5)
    • Locations (Smorgasbord '24, round 3)
    • Workplace Phrases (Smorgasbord '24, round 5)
    • Triple Color Mania – Scribble titles 2021-2024 (Labs 1, round 4)
    • Palette Swap – Revenge of the Kingsbournes (Labs 1, round 5)
    • Relay Battle – Out about town (Labs 2, round 2)
    • Sabotage Battle – Vibes (Labs 2, round 3)
    • Olympus Battle – Echoes (Labs 2, round 5)

LOOK AT THE BINS

• At the start of the meeting, there were 18 green binned Mario awards and 2 blue binned Mario awards, 8 green binned Fail Awards and 1 blue binned Fail award, and 15 green binned Community awards, necessitating a further look at the blue bins and the creation of at least one new Fail award.
  • In the blue bin for Mario were:
    • Favorite 3D Platformer, considered to have stale results while also being considered a staple and a pair with 2D Platformer
    • Favorite Super Mario Bros. Wonder level, considered to have an interesting write-in result last year but also possibly to be irrelevant after one year
  • In the blue for Fail was:
    • Worst Enemy, considered to have stale results

• The following ideas were noted as possible new Mario awards to potentially replace the Blue Bins, with many previously discussed on the forum and not found to be considered strong or well-distinguished from existing awards.
  • Favorite Villain
  • Treasure Tracker Award
  • Best Amiibo
  • Best WAHrt
  • Best Nintendo Switch Game
  • Favorite Move
  • Favorite Current Voice Actor
  • Favorite Non-Game Mario Experience
  • Favorite Fan Video
  • Favorite Fangame

• Favorite Fan Video was discussed and put to a vote, but was not pursued due to concerns over scope and ease of curating nominations and write-ins.
  
  
• Favorite Fangame was discussed and put to a vote, but was not pursued due to concerns over scope and ease of curating nominations and write-ins.
  
  
• Favorite Non-Game Mario Media was discussed and added after deciding to limit its scope to published materials, excluding in-person experiences such as theme parks and hybrid media-and-merchandise like toylines. Concept albums were noted to explicitly fall withinthe scope of the award.
  • Nominees will be collected through a forum poll, and the award's name will be refined at a later date.

• Worst Pre-Release Period was considered, but was considered unfeasible due to a lack of notable nominees.

• Votes were taken to determine which, if either, of Favorite 3D Platformer or Favorite Super Mario Bros. Wonder level would be removed.
  • Favorite 3D Platformer was removed. It was noted that it may return after the release of Donkey Kong Bananza next cycle.
  • Favorite Super Mario Bros. Wonder Level was kept.
    • Piranha Plants on Parade and Ninji Jump Party were added as nominees due to their successes as write-ins.

• Worst Title was considered and added as a Fail award recognizing the Mario media which has the most cumbersome or non-descriptive name.
  • Nominees will be collected in a forum poll, and they and specifics of this award (definition, etc.) are set to be discussed at a later date.

• Through a vote, Worst Enemy was removed.
  
  
• Worst Enemy Design/Worst Enemy Usage/Most Poorly-Designed Enemy was considered, but was not pursued after concerns were raised over the difficulty in conveying its meaning to voters and the possibility that results may not be that different from Worst Enemy due to feelings that purposefully difficult enemies are poorly designed.
  
  
• Worst Game Aesthetic, for the game with the worst visual design and overall presentation, was added.
  • Nominees will be added through forum discussion, and will be confirmed along with details of the award at a later date.

• As the meeting was running out of time, it was adjourned with an eye towards finalizing these new awards and beginning the full review next week.