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The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/DiamondPittcairn on 2024-01-15 19:47:21.

Hello wonderful people, and welcome once again to the annual r/soccer tradition of the Best Of Awards! We find ourselves in 2024, if you can believe it. Looking back, some 20 years ago, monumental things happened: the last time a club from a non-top 4 league won the Champions League, the last time Arsenal won the Premiership, the last time I had a full set of hair. But let’s not go so far! Let’s just look at our gone but not forgotten 2023, and particularly what this sub was and did during the year. We intend here to showcase the best, worst, funniest, angriest, rant-iest, helpful-est, and any other -est, that this incredible community can achieve.

The categories are:

  • Best OC: We had some cracking content submitted just for us over the last year, but which deserves to be the cream of the crop?
  • Best Gif and Video Maker: Spoiler: It’s probably going to be francophone.
  • Best Comment: Doesn’t have to be a joke (in fact, preferably shouldn’t be)
  • Best Joke: It has to be a joke (if you submit just team name like Tottenham or Dortmund, you’ll get banned)
  • Best Rant: Nothing elicits passionate responses like this silly game of football. Who was the best at letting it all out?
  • Most heartwarming or wholesome post/comment: Football can be nice and cute sometimes too.
  • Thread of the year: Where was r/soccer firing on all cylinders?
  • Best Prediction: Nostradamus-esque.
  • Hottest Take: Seems like some people still don’t believe Racing is the bestest team in the whole wide world. Crazy.
  • Best ‘Boy, that aged well’ moment/comment: Ah, the power of hindsight.
  • Most Passionate Fan: For those who go the extra mile for their colors.
  • Best Analysis: Let’s prove the sub it’s not just memes and shitting on Tottenham, shall we?
  • Best Series: What serialized content was really, really worth it?
  • Community choice: For anything not covered on the previous categories, if any.

As for the Awards themselves for the winners, given that reddit had the wonderful and totally not moronic, nearsighted, or baffling idea of deprecating Gold, from the mod team we offer what we think is a pretty good alternative: Special Flairs.

If you’ve been on the sub long ago, you might remember the lovely Charity Drive we had on 2020, where most than 500 Euros were raised for MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières. One of the most selected prizes for that drive there were the choice of having a Special Flair, such as a certain crest, a certain player, or a certain face. Well, we’d thought we’d bring that energy back, and so, every winner of this Best Of will be awarded the chance of having a special flair of their liking. It can be as simple as their current flair with a gold background or as complex as Alan Hutton’s face decorating their username. The winners will decide.

Alrighty then, that’s it from us! Now you take command and have the ability to show what makes this forum the unsinkable ship among the sea of manure that is the internet in general, and footbal internet in particular.

Thank you, and have an excellent 2024!