All of these annual awards are based on what we call the PG-HQ Year, in this case - Year 10 - all activity from June 6th 2019 to June 5th 2020, inclusive. Furthermore, in order to be eligible for an award you must have played and recorded at least 6 battles during this period. That's equivalent to achieving our first promotion from Recruit to Private. The reasoning is if you can't play once every 2 months you probably don't deserve an award!
Also, don't forget that the full list of yearly winners for each award is in our Hall of Fame!
At 20:06:07 on 2019 June 8th, U.S Central Time, mike perryman added the first play of PG-HQ's tenth year. Congratulations, you and your play for Desert Rats #48 were FIRST! in Year 10.
Congratulations garbare83686! You again unequivocally crushed the competition to claim 2020 Player of the Year honors with 55 scenarios logged!
- Runner-up: wkenney53, 48 plays
Most of us play solo, but PG is a dish best shared with friends! Congratulations to Dan_Huffman and plloyd1010 with 14 shared plays each!
- Runner-up: cjsiam, 12 plays
Plays are the fuel that drives our statistics, but the character, the nature of Panzer Grenadier only truly seeps forth from our After Action Reports. Congratulations SARACV3! Your 16 AARs made PG-HQ a better place in 2020!
- Runner-up: Dan_Huffman, 14 AARs
They just go on and on and on! Hopefully it's all worth reading in the end!
The 2020 winner was Schoenwulf, who averaged 623 words per AAR over 11 AARs!
- Runner-up: J6A, 490 words per AAR over 7 AARs
Was there even a battle? No one knows because these authors aren't talking!
The PG-HQ member with the lowest average AAR word count in 2020, and therefore the member who most readily got to the point, was Blackcloud6, who averaged a miserly 171 words per AAR over 11 AARs!
- Runner-up: Dan_Huffman, 189 words per AAR over 14 AARs
Easy to Please goes to the member with the highest average scenario rating over the past year. 2020's most perpetually satisfied member was sasmo12 with an average rating of 4.43 over 7 scenario ratings. sasmo12, you are officially this year's World's Biggest PG Fan!
- Runner-up: J6A averaged 4.29 over 7 ratings
Conversely, some people just ain't ever happy with their battles. Maybe they have bad luck picking scenarios to play, maybe they simply hold Panzer Grenadier to a higher standard than the rest of us... no matter the reason, we salute their discriminating taste all the same!
2020's most perpetually dissatisfied member was Mikko with an average rating of 2.57 over 7 ratings.
- Runner-up: RikuM averaged 2.71 over 7 ratings
The Bounty Master award goes to the member with the highest bounty total for the year. This year's winner is TFGA73, who claimed a peerless 9,666 points over 54 bounties.
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 9,637 points over 53 bounties
The Bounty Sniper award goes to the member with the highest bounty average. This year's winner is scrane, who averaged 233.43 points over 14 bounties. Great job filling in the most needed data, scrane!
- Runner-up: Blackcloud6, 216.18 points per bounty over 22 bounties
Fancy a big game hunt? The Trophy Hunter award goes to the member who has bagged the largest play & AAR bounty set by points over the past year.
This year's winner is Blackcloud6, who bagged 690 points with his play & AAR set for Fire in the Steppe #43.
- Runner-up: scrane, 626 points for Maple Leaf Brigade #11
"We fought and we fought and we fought and we fought... and at the end of the day... nobody won!"
Frustrating I'm sure! In honor of those among us who, try as they might, seem to always get stuck in stalemates, we've created the Decisively Indecisive award.
If you're going to take the trouble to do something, might as well do it the best you possibly can! 2020's most Decisively Indecisive member was Tmo with 3 draws over 6 plays for a draw rate of 50%!
- Runner-up: Schoenwulf, 6 draws over 14 plays, 42.8%
Also known as the special award for taking different boxes down off the shelf, the Game Spice of Life is given to the member who plays the most different games in one year. Our 2020 winner is Michael Murphy who played 18 different games this year!
- Runner-up: TFGA73, 11 games
Who captained the most different nations in 2020? TFGA73 takes home this award with 15 nations played this year!
- Runner-up: joe_oppenheimer led 14 nations
Unit Spice of Life goes to TFGA73! Over the past year he has led 276 different units into battle!
- Runner-up: Michael Murphy, 272 units
Though you can do battle in Panzer Grenadier with as few as 7 counters, the veterans know that vast, sweeping battles are where the command and control system shines best.
Persian Warlord goes to the member who played the scenario with the largest counter total over the past year. This year's winner is Blackcloud6, who marshaled an astonishing 993 units in Fire in the Steppe #43!
- Runner-up: scrane, 735 units in Maple Leaf Brigade #11
On one end of the spectrum, Panzer Grenadier offers a handful of battles that clock in at 105 minutes maximum. At the other end, the iron-grog can immerse himself in multi-day rampages. The Tireless Warrior award is given annually to the member who bagged the longest single scenario by turn total.
This year we honor Blackcloud6 who tackled the 220 turns for Fire in the Steppe #43!
- Runner-up: metfan, 195 turns in Guadalcanal #5
But when the dust settles and the battle has finished, the Tireless Warrior may rest, whereas the Tireless Campaigner must carry on until the last of his enemies are scattered to the four winds.
For logging the most total turns in battle over the past year with an exhausting 1,161 turns of death and destruction, driddle01 is the 2020 Tireless Campaigner!
- Runner-up: garbare83686, 995 turns
The Cinderella of our Annual Awards, the glorious honor that is LAST! is bestowed upon that user who recorded a play closest to midnight, 2020 June 5th.
This year's winner is triangular_cube, who logged a play for Eastern Front Deluxe #8 at 21:13:00, June 5th. Congratulations, you were LAST! in Year 10.
In Conclusion
See you all next year!