2022 TGDPS Awards

**Please read at your own risk, as it may contain spoilers.**

The 2022 TGDPS Awards is the 2nd award ceremony in TGDPS. The awards are given out to the best TGDPS players at certain things, such as being skilled at playing, creating, and others. It also honors the best TGDPS levels. So far, the Google Form to nominate people for Awards was released on December 14th, 2022, and finished on December 20th. The nominees were announced on April 30th, 2023, and the form to vote for the nominees has finished.

Compared to the 2021 Awards, the 2022 Awards has new sections such as Best Stargrinder.

## History

### Guidelines/Rules

When the Awards were announced and people started nominating players, there were rules/guidelines to make the Awards cleaner.

In the 2021 Awards, there was an issue where some levels/players won more then 1 category, because people kept voting for the same thing. So there was a rule where you couldn't nominate a level more than once, and that people should choose a specific level for each category. The only exception were creators, which were allowed to be noimated more than once.

Since it was called the **2022** Awards, only levels released in 2022 were allowed to be nominated. So no levels below the ID 1619 were not allowed to be nominated. This also included levels that were uploaded in 2021 but reuploaded in 2022 due to Tal's accidental deletion of some rated levels. There were also a list of levels that were "blacklisted", meaning that you could NOT nominate them for any category. There were 44 levels that were blacklisted

Tal though made it so that if you were unsure on what to choose to nominate for a category, you could leave a "-" on it. ~~He then instantly regretted that because he knew people would put dashes on 90% of the categories.~~

Tal also said to actually pick things rather then being selfish and putting everything someone made themself.

### Video Production

It had been over a month since the form to nominate people for Awards had finished, and the video had yet to come out. It turned out that Val was the one making the nominees video, and it was taking a while for Val to finish it because of schoolwork, though Val told Tal ~~holy sh\*t that rhymes~~ that the video was going well so far. Tal also said that the Awards video may be inaccurate, but he didn't care.

On February 20th, 2023, Val stopped editing the Awards video due to being mentally drained, and losing motivation to continue due to the file being corrupted, and having to redo every single edit. Val also took a bit of a break from TGDPS and GD as a whole. The video production then moved on to Tal, who has been working on it since early March.

On March 14th, 2023, Tal told people in TGDPS General chat that the video wasn't dead and it was still in progress.

On April 8th, 2023, Tal once again in TGDPS general chat made an update on the awards video, and said the nominees video was 8 minutes in length so far. Three days later, he said the video was 15 minutes in, and 70% done.

On April 29th, 2023, Tal finished the nominees video and premiered it the following day. Tal apologized in the discord server and in the video’s description for the video being delayed by 5 months due to “unfortunate moments”.

### Google Form

The Google Form to vote for the nominees came out shortly after the nominees video premiered on the TGDPS YouTube Channel. Voting ended on May 7th at around 10:21PM EST. There were more than 50 votes in the form.

### Long Wait

The Awards video took almost three months to complete. This is due to Tal transfering video production to Zoner. The long wait ended up killing most hype around the awards. There was almost no mention or discussion of the awards for the entirety of May, early and mid-June, and early July, with the only talk of it being if the awards video were even coming out, as well as Val making joke that the awards video should come out the day before the 2023 awards nominees.

On July 13th, 2023, the Awards video was announced to premiere the following day.

## Awards

### Best non-Demon

Belassen by Blast | T-5th Place - 10.5% of the votes

Piff by Meramie | T-5th Place - 10.5% of the votes

Race Track by Pavv | 2nd Place - 26.3% of the votes

STRANGE by MrDanx | 1st Place - 35.1% of the votes

Lose IT by Pavv | 3rd Place - 17.5% of the votes

### Best Auto

The Water Cycle by teamholden and fortniteballs | 3rd Place - 15.8% of the votes

Motivational Lizard by VOID | 2nd Place - 35.1% of the votes

Huberticus Challenge by 0spears and Olixor | 4th Place - 10.5% of the votes

Rob the Parrot by Gecko | 1st Place - 38.6% of the votes

### Best Demon

Melvin by Speedy | 5th Place - 7% of the votes

Stomp the ground by Pavv | 2nd Place - 10.5% of the votes

Found by Rowan | 1st Place - 64.9% of the votes

Detonate by Dan1elGD | T-3rd Place - 8.8% of the votes

Desastre Emocional by Valeud | T-3rd Place - 8.8% of the votes

### Best Extreme Demon

Frostbite by Wrecx | T-2nd Place - 15.8% of the votes

haha by Wonduu | 5th Place - 7% of the votes

Phantasmagoria by whit | 1st Place - 43.9% of the votes

Slaughterhouse lore by Kakimu and more | T-2nd Place - 15.8% of the votes

Casual by Gdlightshade | T-2nd Place - 15.8% of the votes

uwu by Lonhi198 | 6th Place - 1.8% of the votes

### Best Layout

Serene by Robanana | 2nd Place - 19.3% of the votes

666 by Hamotho | 3rd Place - 17.5% of the votes

Lay but Out by Robanana | 1st Place - 36.8% of the votes

404 by TDP9 | 4th Place - 15.8% of the votes

icon overload by Robanana | 5th Place - 10.5% of the votes

### Best Nine Circles

Soul Harvest by Stellarum | 5th Place - 8.8% of the votes

Cheese Vortex by TinyBorix | 3rd Place - 22.8% of the votes

JoshDeluxe Burger Redux by Steallarum | 1st Place - 31.6% of the votes

nPasta Meatball by Freedom08 | 4th Place - 12.3% of the votes

Hazardous Rush by Bladey | 2nd Place - 24.6% of the votes

### Best Collab

Destruction by Blasterr and more | 1st Place - 33.3% of the votes

Athena by Youngs and more | 2nd Place - 28.1% of the votes

Ice cube by QuazeryTheIceCube & Leo272 | 5th Place - 8.8% of the votes

Creator League by Skystra and more | 4th Place - 12.3% of the votes

Frost Forrest by Vexed and more | 3rd Place - 17.5% of the votes

### Best Themed

Peaceful Chirping by ZonerG | 5th Place - 5.3% of the votes

Snowfall by legit and more | 2nd Place - 26.3% of the votes

Snowcone by CCostGD and more | 1st Place - 40.4% of the votes

After noon by Olixor | 4th Place - 10.5% of the votes

Down in the deep by Rowan | 3rd Place - 17.5% of the votes

### Best Design

Solemn by Vexex

Rosemary by Stellarum

Polyriddim by Meramie and MatraTIX

Forbidden Burger by MrPepper

Atomna Bomba by hosytaa

### Best Modern

Joshtoo by Slopes

DEVIOUS by whit

Polychromatic Shards by ThePvzProMaster

BUZ BAM by Pentu

IDK WHAT I MADE by QuazeryTheIceCube

### Best Effect

The Wulzy Effect by Gecko | 2nd Place- 29.8% of the votes

1QQQ by yoyo | 5th Place - 3.5% of the votes

Wonders by wonduu | 3rd Place - 21.1% of the votes

Feta Grisens Resa by MrPepper | 4th Place - 10.5% of the votes

Partially Epic by Robanana | 1st Place - 35.1% of the votes

### Best Decoration

What Lies Above by MrPepper | 1st Place - 35.1% of the votes

NoveMBER by Meramie | T-5th Place - 7% of the votes

Cloud9 by MrPepper | T-5th Place - 7% of the votes

klupa by Wonduu | 3rd Place - 22.8% of the votes

Miami Car Trip by Olixor and Rowan | 2nd Place - 28.1% of the votes

### Best Gameplay

WaterRiddim by GDPatatalex | 2nd Place - 22.8% of the votes

Riot by CCostGD | 4th Place - 8.8% of the votes

zBaldey Rush by Bananasox24 | 5th Place - 5.3% of the votes

plasma fusion ii by Lorerjvkz | 3rd Place - 12.3% of the votes

Crystalline by Stellarum | 1st Place - 50.9% of the votes

### Best Exclusive

Comeback by GDPatatalex | 4th Place - 12.3% of the votes

Tribute by Sterllarum | 3rd Place - 17.5% of the votes

Determination by Leo272 | 2nd Place - 29.8% of the votes

Epic Level Thing by Robanana | 1st Place - 40.4% of the votes

### Best Level

Variational Stage by ThePvzProMaster

Da World by GDManster

In Time by Zeroseven

Bright Light by Meramie

Veu by QuazeryTheIceCube

### Best Song

"Think about it ????" by TOMBOYY

"My Ordinary Life" by TheLivingTombstone

"so good loop" by Xorberax

"Infiltration" by ParagonX9

"-ThunderZone v2-" by Waterflame

### Best Newcomer

EliGabRet

DeMooniC

Hamotho

Slijee

Gdlightshade

ZonerG

### Best Design Creator

MrPepper

Dan1elGD

Rowan

Stellarum

pavv

Bladey

### Best Modern Creator

Slopes

QuazeryTheIceCube

Skystra

whit

Olixor

### Best Effect Creator

CCostGD

Meramie

Robanana

### Best Decoration Creator

ZonerG

Rowan

Meramie

Skystra

Bladey

QuazeryTheIceCube

### Best Gameplay Creator

Wrecx

pavv

Stellarum

Robanana

Hamotho

### Best Creator

pavv

ZonerG

Rowan

Meramie

Robanana

QuazeryTheIceCube

Bladey

### Best Star-Grinder

EliGabRet

Hamotho

DeMooniC

zzSwagwarrior

ZonerG

Xacto

### Best Demon Slayer

Slijee

Hamotho

Breakcore

DeMooniC

EliGabRet

Gdlightshade

ZonerG

### Best Player

Slijee

EliGabRet

Breakcore

Gdlightshade

Lonhi

Hamotho

Femboy Youngs

## Controversy

After the awards, some people, including stargrinders such as Hamotho, Swagwarrior, complained that the stargrinder award was a popularity contest, due to EliGabRet winning the category, despite EliGabRet only having half of the amount of star Swagwarrior had, and 1/3 of Hamotho's star count.

## Trivia

- Despite being a "blacklisted" level due to winning awards in the 2021 awards, Bright Light by Meramie was nominated for best level.