Cacowards

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The Cacowards are a yearly feature in Doomworld, released on Doom's birthday. The series started in 2004 with the so-called 11th installment, which was an attempt to replicate the success of the previous year's 10 Years of Doom celebration, more precisely the Top 100 WADs of All Time and Top 10 Infamous WADs articles.

Apart from the regular Cacowards, there are additional Cacowards granted each year:

  • Best Multiplayer (Best DM Level until 2007 and Best Multiplayer Level until 2011,) honoring the best multiplayer WAD of the year.
  • Best Gameplay Mod, presented to the best gameplay modification of the year. The first such award was given in 2011.
  • The Mordeth Award, recognizing whichever WAD of the year has taken the longest time to develop and release, in honor of Mordeth's notoriously protracted development schedule.
  • The Mapper of the Year, awarded to the best level designer of the year.

There were two other annual awards: Worst Wad, dishonoring the worst WAD of the year, and the Mockaward, given to the best joke WAD of the year, in honor of Mockery. Both awards were officially retired in 2011, the former because it was considered "sort of dumb" to reward people for uploading low-quality work, and the latter because of the apparent dearth of joke WADs worth considering for an award.

As of December 10, 2011, the series has had its 18th (actually 8th) installment released.

Mike Lightner (Mancubus II) produced the logos for the feature, and Stephen Browning (Scuba Steve) was responsible for the content, although Dean Joseph (deathz0r) joined him for the 14th installment. Patrick Pineda and Darknation assisted with the 15th installment. The 16th installment saw writing contributions from Pineda, hobbs, and esselfortium. After the 17th installment, Browning stepped down as the host of the Cacowards, and was succeeded by hobbs beginning with the 18th.

Contents

[edit] 11th Annual Cacowards (2004)

[edit] Winners

[edit] Runners Up

[edit] Honorable Mention

[edit] Best DM level

[edit] Worst Wad

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mockaward

[edit] Mapper of the Year

[edit] 12th Annual Cacowards (2005)

[edit] Winners

[edit] Runners Up

[edit] What the Hell!?

[edit] Best DM level

[edit] Worst Wad

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mockaward

[edit] Mapper of the Year

[edit] 13th Annual Cacowards (2006)

[edit] Winners

[edit] Runners Up

[edit] Escher Award

[edit] Best DM level

[edit] Worst Wad

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mockaward

[edit] Mapper of the Year

[edit] 14th Annual Cacowards (2007)

[edit] Winners

[edit] Runners Up

[edit] Best Multiplayer level

[edit] Worst Wad

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mockaward

[edit] Mapper of the Year

[edit] 15th Annual Cacowards (2008)

[edit] Winners

[edit] This is my Boomstick

[edit] Runners Up

[edit] Best Multiplayer level

[edit] Worst Wad

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mockaward

[edit] Mapper of the Year

[edit] 16th Annual Cacowards (2009)

[edit] Winners

[edit] Runners Up

[edit] Best Multiplayer level

[edit] Worst Wad

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mockaward

[edit] Mapper of the Year

[edit] 17th Annual Cacowards (2010)

[edit] Winners

[edit] Runners Up

[edit] Also mentioned

[edit] Best Multiplayer level

[edit] Worst Wad

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mockaward

[edit] Mapper of the Year

[edit] 18th Annual Cacowards (2011)

[edit] Winners

[edit] Honoring a Newcomer

[edit] Consolation Prize

[edit] Best Multiplayer

[edit] Best Gameplay Mod

[edit] Mordeth Award

[edit] Mapper of the Year

  • Paul DeBruyne (skillsaw)

[edit] External links

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