Meeting Logs

[Roserade]

Meeting 1 (April 3rd)

 

[Hooded Pitohui]

April 3rd, 2026 (Meeting One)

AWARDS COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION

• We went through the basic duties and operation of the Awards Committee and introduced this year's Awards Committee members.
• We conducted a successful test poll to confirm Uncle Awards is working.

ESTABLISHING ROLES

• We discussed opportunities for members of the Awards Committee to voluntarily take on additional roles, such as Meeting Summarizer.
• Not too important to decide on right now; members can take on roles throughout the year
• Pitohui and Camwoodstock took notes for this session; BMFan08 expressed potential interest in summarizing this year to be assessed later

AWARDS NUMBERS

• Broad consensus that enough energy exists to sustain ~45 awards, plus/minus 1-2.
  • Maintain split of roughly 20 Mario, 10 Fail, 15 Community.
  • 50 should be taken as a hard limit for sanity's sake, only to be considered viable in the event that there is an undeniable uptick in energy as the year goes along.
• Keeping the awards number divisible by 5 is desirable, but not necessary if ideas shake out such that we have a few more or a few less.
• We currently have a 5-presentation limit per person as a hard maximum with 3 main sign-ups before backups. Nobody had any problems so this is probably staying true

MISCELLANEOUS POINTERS

• It's the 20th awards ceremony (marking 21 years of the wiki). We are looking for ways to celebrate the 20th edition of the awards themselves. Various ideas were pitched:
  • Anniversary art contributed by various users throughout the year
  • Fun With Despair will host Scribble Labs 3
  • GBA and Perch are running AKG2x2
  • Hint Toad is running an Odyssey scavenger hunt
  • A Guess the Results return is desired
  • An Awards trivia gameshow building from and refining Boo1268's concept
  • Some sort of time lapse data display showing past results changing
  • Display the polls that have only appeared once (AC mistakes/silly misses), let people vote on them unchanged, then a fanfare-less presentation of the results
  • Smasher mentioned hosting Gartic nights
  • A special 'Shroom column looking back at some of the strangest or most interesting one-off polls.

• We discussed replacing the Roman numerals currently in use with Hindu-Arabic numerals.
  • Voted to keep the Roman numerals for this year as a last hurrah
    • Noted that XX is easy to read and interpet
  • Will revisit next year, with current leaning being replacement for 2027

• We discussed the visual identity of the awards.
  • Rose mentioned the idea of putting AC Hubbub in a mad scientist outfit with a little lab jacket for vote analysis posts.
    • From this, Camwoodstock pitched a general science them, citing the many mad scientists and branches of science in Mario.
• Reception for a general, overarching theme for Mario Awards XX was positive; vote on adopting the science theme was successful
  • Emphasize that presentations aren't required to follow it
    • Presenters are welcome to draw inspiration from it, however
  • The theme could be used in intros, outros, intermissions, Bonus Stars, supplemental art, and other "meta" aspects, kind of like a framing device.

• We discussed the Bonus Stars.
  • Lakituthequick explained the Bonus Stars to the Awards Committee.
  • We established that a goal for this year is spreading the work of the Bonus Stars across multiple members of the committee.
    • We may adopt a template/scaffolding that AC members can fill, while still allowing them to stray outside of the template.

OPEN FLOOR

• Everyone gets really distracted with mold jokes :immold: !
• Pitohui brought up that TPG has pitched preliminary polls (and this year specifically, a bracket) to determine nominees, which we could use to guide discussions for individual polls. Notes the idea has merit, but brings up logistical concerns and redundancy concerns.
  • jan Misali's chart that the committee has its eyes on for analyzing M1. was brought up as a similar form of preliminary data collection.
  • Rose also mentioned a potential redundancy, especially if the polls are conducted the exact same way as the awards polls themselves. Suggestions were made to focus on alternative formats for preliminary data gathering.
  • jan Misali offered to assist with these non-standard polls to gauge potential candidates and FWD mentioned workshopping ideas with the Poll Committee.
  • It was mentioned that a bracket may be a fun side projects from which data could incidentally be gathered.
• Overall consensus was to reserve formal preliminary data gathering for edge cases or items the AC is unsure on.
• Post-meeting, TPG clarified that he was referring to the existing preliminary forum polls the AC uses for nominee selection. The specific suggestion is passing select polls on to the PC to gather more data from main page visitors.
  • The All-Time Favorite Character Bracket has been positively-recieved, and TPG and the Directorship will discuss the logistics further. Its results announcement will be given a slot in this year's ceremonies.

START WITH MARIO AWARDS

• Due to a lack of time, we kept this to introducing the process of going through awards and evaluating M1 and M2.
• Lakituthequick explained the binning process and the basics of selecting nominees.

Key:

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

M1. Favorite Major Character – Keep! – We will discuss nominees next week.
M2. Favorite Supporting Character – Keep! – We will discuss nominees next week.