🏆 2019 FAN Wrestling Awards (IMPORTANT UPDATE pg3)

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

It's December.

...Really? Already? Damn.

For the ninth wonderful year, it's FAN's night of nights as we run the microscope over the best and worst of professional wrestling in the FAN Wrestling Awards, the "Golden Snowcones". And in 2019, for the very first time, we will be handing out awards to a second promotion, as All Elite Wrestling will get some dues for their rookie year. We go once more unto the breach with the following categories for your consideration (subject to change and feedback):

WWE-Only Categories (8):
Best Male WWE Wrestler
Best Female WWE Wrestler
Best WWE Tag Team
Best WWE Match
Best WWE Promo/Non-Wrestling Segment
Best WWE PPV/Major Event
Best WWE Feud
Best WWE Spot

AEW-Only Categories (8):
Best Male AEW Wrestler
Best Female AEW Wrestler
Best AEW Tag Team
Best AEW Match
Best AEW Promo/Non-Wrestling Segment
Best AEW PPV/Major Event
Best AEW Feud
Best AEW Spot

Combined Categories (13):
Worst Male Wrestler
The Eva Marie Memorial Snowcone for Worst Female Wrestler
Worst Tag Team
Worst Match
Worst Promo/Non-Wrestling Segment
Worst PPV/Major Event
Worst Feud
Most Improved Wrestler
Most Exciting Moment
Most Hilarious Moment
Most Disappointing Moment
Most Embarrassing Moment
Most WTF? Moment

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED.

From here, the results will be calculated and the winners will be announced in an article on the main website at www.freakinawesomenetwork.net on or around New Year's Day 2020 when they're ready, pending any more real life stuff that comes up.

And as always, do remember that it's all in good fun.

Past Results:
2011
2012
2013
2014 Part 1 - 2014 Part 2
2015
2016
2017
2018

[Mid-Carder]

Can Ronda be Woman of the Year even though she was only on TV for 3 months?

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 2, 2019 12:43:10 GMT -5 Mid-Carder said:

Can Ronda be Woman of the Year even though she was only on TV for 3 months?

Sure, if enough people nominate her for it.

[Big Bad Brad]

Can WWE 2K20 be nominated for most disappointing or embarrassing moment? The release of the game with so many glitches is a very disappointing moment.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 2, 2019 17:33:05 GMT -5 Big Bad Brad said:

Can WWE 2K20 be nominated for most disappointing or embarrassing moment? The release of the game with so many glitches is a very disappointing moment.

That’s a bit tricky, because that’s something that didn’t happen as part of a TV storyline. Could open too much of a Pandora’s Box since then it could just end up leading to a ton of off-screen stuff getting nominated.

I’m leaning towards no at this point.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Dec 2, 2019 17:36:35 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 2, 2019 17:33:05 GMT -5 Big Bad Brad said:

Can WWE 2K20 be nominated for most disappointing or embarrassing moment? The release of the game with so many glitches is a very disappointing moment.

That’s a bit tricky, because that’s something that didn’t happen as part of a TV storyline. Could open too much of a Pandora’s Box since then it could just end up leading to a ton of off-screen stuff getting nominated.

I’m leaning towards no at this point.

So, in this case, would the Saudi airplane situation and the Corey Graves/Mauro Ranallo Twitter situation not count since they weren't acknowledged on-screen?

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 3, 2019 8:11:24 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

Dec 2, 2019 17:36:35 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

That’s a bit tricky, because that’s something that didn’t happen as part of a TV storyline. Could open too much of a Pandora’s Box since then it could just end up leading to a ton of off-screen stuff getting nominated.

I’m leaning towards no at this point.

So, in this case, would the Saudi airplane situation and the Corey Graves/Mauro Ranallo Twitter situation not count since they weren't acknowledged on-screen?

No, they wouldn't count. I mean, if it's relevant to something that happened on-screen that won an award, I'll mention it, but if I counted one off-screen thing I'd have to count them all and then all the bad awards would just go to off-screen stuff because that's the stuff that people REALLY get mad about.

(Or else I'd be doing a writeup for the "WWE Still Doesn't Have A Union Memorial Award for Most Disappointing Moment")

[Macho Pichu]

Dec 3, 2019 8:20:01 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 3, 2019 8:11:24 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

So, in this case, would the Saudi airplane situation and the Corey Graves/Mauro Ranallo Twitter situation not count since they weren't acknowledged on-screen?

No, they wouldn't count. I mean, if it's relevant to something that happened on-screen that won an award, I'll mention it, but if I counted one off-screen thing I'd have to count them all and then all the bad awards would just go to off-screen stuff because that's the stuff that people REALLY get mad about.

(Or else I'd be doing a writeup for the "WWE Still Doesn't Have A Union Memorial Award for Most Disappointing Moment")

In that case, could Crown Jewel be chosen as worst major event on the grounds of the airplane situation having happened after it? It probably deserves a look for the category even without it, but is it a valid reason in itself?

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Dec 3, 2019 20:22:06 GMT -5 Macho Pichu said:

Dec 3, 2019 8:20:01 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

No, they wouldn't count. I mean, if it's relevant to something that happened on-screen that won an award, I'll mention it, but if I counted one off-screen thing I'd have to count them all and then all the bad awards would just go to off-screen stuff because that's the stuff that people REALLY get mad about.

(Or else I'd be doing a writeup for the "WWE Still Doesn't Have A Union Memorial Award for Most Disappointing Moment")

In that case, could Crown Jewel be chosen as worst major event on the grounds of the airplane situation having happened after it? It probably deserves a look for the category even without it, but is it a valid reason in itself?

Crown Jewel didn't seem like that bad of a show. At the very least, it's probably the better of the two Saudi shows for not having anything on its card as brutal as Goldberg/Taker or DX/BoD.

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Dec 3, 2019 8:20:01 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 3, 2019 8:11:24 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

So, in this case, would the Saudi airplane situation and the Corey Graves/Mauro Ranallo Twitter situation not count since they weren't acknowledged on-screen?

No, they wouldn't count. I mean, if it's relevant to something that happened on-screen that won an award, I'll mention it, but if I counted one off-screen thing I'd have to count them all and then all the bad awards would just go to off-screen stuff because that's the stuff that people REALLY get mad about.

(Or else I'd be doing a writeup for the "WWE Still Doesn't Have A Union Memorial Award for Most Disappointing Moment")

So....why don't you just have an award for the "Worst thing involving WWE outside of the TV product" or something? Seems like a gaping hole.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 4, 2019 2:17:42 GMT -5 @mrsirdrdaddy said:

Dec 3, 2019 8:20:01 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

No, they wouldn't count. I mean, if it's relevant to something that happened on-screen that won an award, I'll mention it, but if I counted one off-screen thing I'd have to count them all and then all the bad awards would just go to off-screen stuff because that's the stuff that people REALLY get mad about.

(Or else I'd be doing a writeup for the "WWE Still Doesn't Have A Union Memorial Award for Most Disappointing Moment")

So....why don't you just have an award for the "Worst thing involving WWE outside of the TV product" or something? Seems like a gaping hole.

Because I don’t feel like writing one.

Besides, there’s enough bad stuff happening on-screen, surely?

[Deleted]

Dec 4, 2019 3:14:18 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 4, 2019 2:17:42 GMT -5 @mrsirdrdaddy said:

So....why don't you just have an award for the "Worst thing involving WWE outside of the TV product" or something? Seems like a gaping hole.

Because I don’t feel like writing one.

Besides, there’s enough bad stuff happening on-screen, surely?

Yet you know you are going to receive a bunch of nomination for that kind of stuff anyway. It would probably be better served to give them a place to go instead of needing to repeat yourself to people a bunch of times over each individual example, and then have to reject nominations anyway.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 4, 2019 3:30:51 GMT -5 @mrsirdrdaddy said:

Dec 4, 2019 3:14:18 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Because I don’t feel like writing one.

Besides, there’s enough bad stuff happening on-screen, surely?

Yet you know you are going to receive a bunch of nomination for that kind of stuff anyway. It would probably be better served to give them a place to go instead of needing to repeat yourself to people a bunch of times over each individual example, and then have to reject nominations anyway.

Keeping these awards to on-screen stuff hasn’t been a problem the entire time I’ve done these. The voters have been good like that for me. I bring up off-screen stuff when it’s relevant, but we’ve never had a situation where a totally off-screen incident has won one of these things. At least, not once I streamlined the awards (you see why 2014 is in two parts... I went wild that year). And I did the “Make your own Snowcone” thing last year that might have covered some of it, but I was dropping that this year because I’m doing all the added AEW stuff. It’s why I’ve never really thought about it.

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Dec 4, 2019 3:55:49 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 4, 2019 3:30:51 GMT -5 @mrsirdrdaddy said:

Yet you know you are going to receive a bunch of nomination for that kind of stuff anyway. It would probably be better served to give them a place to go instead of needing to repeat yourself to people a bunch of times over each individual example, and then have to reject nominations anyway.

Keeping these awards to on-screen stuff hasn’t been a problem the entire time I’ve done these. The voters have been good like that for me. I bring up off-screen stuff when it’s relevant, but we’ve never had a situation where a totally off-screen incident has won one of these things. At least, not once I streamlined the awards (you see why 2014 is in two parts... I went wild that year). And I did the “Make your own Snowcone” thing last year that might have covered some of it, but I was dropping that this year because I’m doing all the added AEW stuff. It’s why I’ve never really thought about it.

Has there ever been a year with this many huge off screen things either though? The Fox deal, Expanded Saudi Deal (and purported lack of payment), the plane incident, Contract Lockdowns for people who want to leave, CM Punk on Backstage (not a WWE show, so technically wouldn't be eligible as a thing right now), Seth Rollins on Twitter, Mauro/Graves, and lol2k20; and that's just stuff from the latter half of the year that feels kinda year-defining for WWE. 

I mean, I guess you can do it however you like, but I'd prefer to have the option to at least nominate some of these things for -something-. It feels wrong or incomplete to leave them out entirely from the picture of this company's year.

[Big Bad Brad]

I think a Worst social media of Wrestling category would be good were we can nominate the worst of the year that happened outside the TV Shows and Pay Per Views.

Just a suggestion.

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

So will - for example - my votes count is I ONLY vote on the AEW and combined awards?

I've watched some WWE...but not enough to really do voting on the catagories justice because I'd mostly be going by a few things I've seen and mostly off of what I've read here, on twitter and on Cageside Seats.

AEW, on the other hand...

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 4, 2019 16:44:59 GMT -5 ASYLUMHAUSEN said:

So will - for example - my votes count is I ONLY vote on the AEW and combined awards?

I've watched some WWE...but not enough to really do voting on the catagories justice because I'd mostly be going by a few things I've seen and mostly off of what I've read here, on twitter and on Cageside Seats.

AEW, on the other hand...

You do what you feel confident in doing. If you want to skip over some categories because you haven’t watched enough of one brand, that’s fine, I’m just saying be reasonable and don’t send in a ballot that’s just one or two categories and the rest blank.

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

Dec 4, 2019 16:52:28 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 4, 2019 16:44:59 GMT -5 ASYLUMHAUSEN said:

So will - for example - my votes count is I ONLY vote on the AEW and combined awards?

I've watched some WWE...but not enough to really do voting on the catagories justice because I'd mostly be going by a few things I've seen and mostly off of what I've read here, on twitter and on Cageside Seats.

AEW, on the other hand...

You do what you feel confident in doing. If you want to skip over some categories because you haven’t watched enough of one brand, that’s fine, I’m just saying be reasonable and don’t send in a ballot that’s just one or two categories and the rest blank.

Oh that won’t be a problem at all....thanks for clearing it up for me.

[Waffel113]

I promise that y’all aren’t ready for my thesis presentation on why Strong/Riddle at Takeover XXV is match of the year.

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I'm gonna be participating for first time! It's pretty fun to even think of favourite moments from this year, ' haven't done this anywhere else either in many, many, many years.