Portfolio52 Deck of the Year 2022

[hsbc]

Nomination period through January 17 (Google form)

[hsbc]

Does anyone have a good list of 2022 decks? I tried searching "2022" on P52 (like they suggested ) and it's just pulling up all kinds of decks, old and new

And here are the categories:

Deck of The Year

Rookie of The Year
(where a producer/designer delivered their debut deck during 2022)

Best Magic Deck

Best Cardistry Deck

Best Tuck

Best Back Design

Best Innovative tech/design
(where a deck incorporates the likes of different print techniques such as foils, UV ink, gilding; art concepts such as AI; unique packaging such as laser cut tucks, heat sensitive tucks)

Best Ace(s)
(either a single custom Ace or all 4 Aces)

Best Court Cards

Best Joker(s)

Best of the Extras
(this can include gaff cards, ad cards, numbered certificates)

Best Custom Pips

Best Looking Fan

DOTY ideas: Eye of the Ocean, duh... For best tuck I'm thinking Almanac Vol. 2, Legionary Dusk...

Rookie decks - do these all qualify? Vivid Kingdoms, Dark Patina, Ink Beast, 1920, Festum

[double_left]

Is this still even a thing after that blow out with what’s her face…

[thekeycardcompany]

Is this still even a thing after that blow out with what’s her face…

What's this mean ?

[Strag]

Is this still even a thing after that blow out with what’s her face…

I won't be participating as a nominator or as a voter. I disagree with the process as a whole.

[BaconWise]

... Rookie decks - do these all qualify? Vivid Kingdoms, Dark Patina, Ink Beast, 1920, Festum

Ink Beast is my sophomore project, so it won't qualify as a rookie deck

[bdawg923]

Ink Beast is my sophomore project, so it won't qualify as a rookie deck

*Puts mustache on the tuck box* here is my new rookie deck, Bink East

[hsbc]

[Trimmed some quotes ]

Ink Beast is my sophomore project, so it won't qualify as a rookie deck

And see, this is why I ask, because sometimes I am not so smart

[Sinecure]

Ink Beast is my sophomore project, so it won't qualify as a rookie deck

The Rookie category description refers to “producer / designer”. I wonder if that means One Young might qualify in this category as a debut designer - even if Curio doesn’t qualify as a debut producer?

Edit: same question arises for other decks like Mechanimals (debut for Celsius Pictor I believe, but not for Max)

[Sinecure]

Does anyone have a good list of 2022 decks? I tried searching "2022" on P52 (like they suggested ) and it's just pulling up all kinds of decks, old and new

Not sure if it’s a good list - more of an aide-memoire - but here’s a list I made because I was having a similar issue isolating 2022 releases from P52.

It’s open to editing so happy if anyone wants add or correct anything (especially release date info which might be relevant to qualification).

I’m sure there’ll be a bunch of gross omissions (and it barely touches the cardistry domain) but might help as a starter.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... cKur0/edit

[PiazzaDelivery]

I'm hopelessly lost for this year's nominations. Basically just hoping that our cumulative wisdom can manage to put the deserving names on the ballot, but I'm doubtful lol. In order to make sure we have a better idea for next year, I've started a Google doc similar to the one Pip used to use ahead of the awards. Only decks that actually materialize in consumers' hands in 2023 get added.

If new decks were only Kickstarters, I could easily maintain the doc alone. I have a huge blindspot for niche store releases and that's one of the reasons I'm a member of, and frequently browse UC. Even so, I miss a lot of these kinds of releases. If you want access to the doc, and please let there be at least a few of you who do lol, just ask and you'll have it. Let's make 2023 a much easier nomination period

[Strag]

This is one of the reasons that I don't participate. It's just too "open" as to what can be nominated and I really think there should be some curation.

Shouldn't it just be that the designers themselves can submit for various categories and then a committee of volunteers can validate the application against specified criteria? Without criteria being clear it's hard to see how it's going to improve.

Also curious who is involved in this bit from the Insta post

"- once the preliminary stage of voting closes, it will be moved to a vote by an impartial committee made up of Collectors, Magicians, Cardists and Retailers"

[NativeTongue]

Also curious who is involved in this bit from the Insta post

"- once the preliminary stage of voting closes, it will be moved to a vote by an impartial committee made up of Collectors, Magicians, Cardists and Retailers"

Same. I found that a bit odd as well.

[Harvonsgard]

... impartial committee made up of Collectors, Magicians, Cardists and Retailers"

I guess it's the instagram bubble around Alex.

[hsbc]

The Instagram post in question, FYI

With the preliminary stage of voting now closed, what is going to happen next?

Over the next couple of weeks all 13 categories will be organised and curated based on the public preliminary stage of voting. As mentioned in the last post (and stories), it will be moved to a committee made up of Collectors, Cardists, Magicians, and Retailers. And will also include input from our sponsors, who graciously award the winners with some top prizes.

A number of requests from past years' voters and P52 members has prompted us to explore this avenue.
Of course we didn't want to exclude the public altogether which is the reason why we kept the preliminary stage open to everyone to help curate the initial list of decks.

In the next few posts between now and the first week of Feb, we will be revealing nominees in the build up to the top 3.

We've also had questions about giveaways which was a huge driving force in the last two years. We've decided not to host giveaways this year but instead would like to encourage others to host their own during the DOTY season.

Hope this helps clear a few things up and best of luck to everyone

I don't blame them one bit for dropping the giveaways, seems like way more trouble than it's worth

[Strag]

TBF the giveaways was a UC thing. When it moved to P52 and the process changed it makes all the sense in the world to remove it. Given that no one here has said anything, I'm guessing that UC is likely not going to be represented on the "committee" either, which is a real shame if so.

I'm wondering who is doing the posting, since Alex hasn't responded to any of my messages for 6 weeks now via email, KS, insta or here regarding questions around my significant pledge ($450) on the recent KS campaign. Luckily Jack Brutus Penny has been great about comms so I'm not too worried.

[Harvonsgard]

Well, technically UC is P52 so, there is that, haha.
Dunno if she's still active for Alex but in the year they pulled the voting from UC to the P52 it was Pipchick that managed the P52 account. So I guess she's still handling it.

The Instagram post in question, FYI

... And will also include input from our sponsors, who graciously award the winners with some top prizes.

Input from sponsors? Kinda lol.

[hsbc]

BEST FAN



1. Sensu by Jack Brutus Penny
2. Ink Beast Collector's Edition by Curio
3. Butterfly Ukraine Edition by Butterfly

BEST CUSTOM PIPS



1. Odd Fellows by Stockholm17
2. Ink Beast by Curio
3. Sensu by Jack Brutus Penny

BEST OF THE EXTRAS [ad card]



1. Eye of the Ocean by Stockholm17
2. Notorious Gambling Frog by Stockholm17
3. Black Market Digital by Thirdway Industries

BEST JOKER



1. Almanac by Meadowlark / Elettra Deganello
2. LotR Fellowship of the Ring by Kings Wild
3. Odd Fellows by Stockholm17

[Adamthinks]

Wait, was there no voting this year? Just the nominations that were sent in? Who determined these?

[kevork]

The extras category felt like a huge flop to me. Putting 17 hearts on a card puts you in the top 3 from all the decks in the year?

[BaconWise]

Humbled and surprised to have Ink Beast place this year. It was a huge year for the big names and a great year for collectors!

[hsbc]

EOTO continues to sweep the awards

BEST COURT CARDS



1. Odd Fellows by Stockholm17
2. Eye of the Ocean by Stockholm17
3. Vivid Kingdoms by Ten Hundred

BEST ACES



1. Eye of the Ocean by Stockholm17
2. Vivid Kingdoms by Ten Hundred
3. Almanac by Meadowlark / Elettra Deganello

BEST INNOVATIVE DESIGN / TECH



1. Eye of the Ocean by Stockholm17 ("huge puzzle incorporated deck")
2. Sensu by Jack Brutus Penny ("intricate die-cut tuck and Japanese folding screen")
3. Cernunnos Forest by Charmie Dreams the Cat ("glow in the dark sleeves and use of foiling")

BEST BACK DESIGN



1. Eye of the Ocean by Stockholm17
2. Sensu by Jack Brutus Penny
3. Almanac by Meadowlark / Elettra Deganello

BEST TUCK



1. Eye of the Ocean by Stockholm17
2. Almanac by Meadowlark / Elettra Deganello
3. Odd Fellows by Stockholm17

[PiazzaDelivery]

Wait, was there no voting this year? Just the nominations that were sent in? Who determined these?

Bump

[hsbc]

With the preliminary stage of voting now closed, what is going to happen next?

Over the next couple of weeks all 13 categories will be organised and curated based on the public preliminary stage of voting. As mentioned in the last post (and stories), it will be moved to a committee made up of Collectors, Cardists, Magicians, and Retailers

[Adamthinks]

I had thought they had meant using that "committee" just for determining the final nominees for voting. That's kinda crap. It devalues the entire awards for this year. It's basically meaningless this year now.

[Bradius]

I am fine with a Committee voting. The problem in the past was that this became a popularity contest. As it became more popular, the voting got more of a potential issue. There are problems with any way they go on this, so I am not going to second guess those running the program this year. I sure as heck don't want the job.

Congrats to all the nominees and winners announced so far.

[PiazzaDelivery]

The problem with this version is that the public's involvement, which is a large contributor in making the public a stakeholder in these awards, is reduced to nominations, and those were a disaster. Searching by year on P52 like P52 suggested was a giant waste of time and I bet that most nominations suffered from a healthy dose of recency bias. The rest of obfuscated until the announcement of the winners. It doesn't feel as though we were any meaningful part of the process.

When compared to how things used to be, this is far inferior as far as I'm concerned.



PS: Again, I've got a Google sheet going that I'm using to list all the delivered decks from 2023. If anyone wants to help sort, very generously, this year's decks into any of the award categories as the year goes on, message me

[rousselle]

I'll note that if any of the admins/mods here at UC were involved in the committee that selected the winners of the P52 awards, nobody mentioned it to me.

I recognize that when Alex bought the UC assets (and, as such, became this forums' curator and benefactor), he also assumed the right to do what he wants with the branding of the site and the DOTY awards that UC used to vote on. I think his decision to move the UC DOTY to P52 and manage it from there, and then change the rules and the nature of the awards from there is entirely fine.

AND

The fact that the P52 awards are now no longer a "People's Choice" award but more of a "Industry Insider" award means that if the UC wanted to put together its own DOTYs again, this community is totally free to do so. I mean, why not, right?

As a former curator of the UC DOTYs, I know it can be a big task and it's not one that I'm currently inclined to take on again, but if someone here wanted to take this on (whether for 2022 or 2023), I'll be happy to provide whatever support I can.

Just sayin'.

[hsbc]

BEST CARDISTRY DECK



1. Orbit Mac Lethal by Orbit / Mac Lethal
2. Grid Series 4 by Luke Wadey
3. Smoke & Mirrors (Garden) by dealersgrip / Dan and Dave

BEST MAGIC DECK



1. Butterfly Ukraine by Butterfly
2. BLRD by Red Black
3. Wonder (Royal) by Wondercraft

[bdawg923]

The fact that the P52 awards are now no longer a "People's Choice" award but more of a "Industry Insider" award means that if the UC wanted to put together its own DOTYs again, this community is totally free to do so. I mean, why not, right?

The Rousselle 2023 DOTY Awards presented by hsbc