TARDIS Guide Awards 2024

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A very warm welcome to the first annual TARDIS Guide Awards Ceremony!

I’m reporting here live from UNIT HQ in London, who have very kindly offered to host the ceremony. I’m told we are in the middle of them trying to resolve a temporal disaster, which will cause this ceremony to take place over several days, but hey - there’s a free bar! It’s 5 o’clock somewhere!

(Actually, Osgood tells me technically it’s 5 o’clock here, the temporal incursion is causing it to be all timezones at once. Fun!)

So, what are the TARDIS Guide Awards, you might ask? Well, we are going to be awarding exclusive badges to people for their contributions to the website and forum in 2024!

The 2024 Award Badge ✨

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Some of them will be ‘popularity contests’, but others will just be fun and silly. Stay tuned, and all will be revealed!

Meanwhile I’m told there are snacks by the helipad, but I just have to mind the laser cannon because it is armed. The last person to go near it was bigenerated…

Here’s a quick selfie with The Vlinx!

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Yay, Awards!!! You look nice in that suit!

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What Doctor has inspired her outfit today?

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Oh, here’s Kate Stewart, I wonder if you could present the first award please Kate?

(She’s on the phone to UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer)

“No, Mr. Starmer, I can’t get the Doctor to review your policy documents. Last time we asked for their input, they rewrote the whole thing in Old High Gallifreyan and added ‘More Jammie Dodgers’ as a key manifesto pledge-”

“Excuse me Kate, could you please present this award? It’s the ‘2024 Leaderboard Award’, given to the person who topped the Leaderboard last year.”

“- Prime Minister, I must go, I have an urgent meeting about the Daleks. (click) - I always use that excuse, he gets very nervous since last time, when they nearly took over government with Jack Robertson.” Kate smiled.

“Very well, although it has to be quick - I’m needed in the time window - Morris is down there trying to fix this temporal disaster and I think he accidentally put a VHS of Frankenstein in the machine, it’s causing chaos because apparently Mary Shelley is a good personal friend of the Doctor…”

The 2024 Leaderboard Award goes to… @deltaandthebannermen!

(I hear a tutting sound behind me)

Mel Bush looks up from her desk, and says “I don’t think it’s fair to give awards to moderators of the site. They’re always here, it’s a bit like cheating”

You’re right Mel, so anytime a moderator gets an award, a non-moderator who also fits the criteria will also be awarded.

So in third place on the Leaderboard last year was @BillFiler - you also get an award!

Thanks Kate and Mel - oh, they’ve run off. Apparently Frankenstein’s Monster is loose around the building!

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Both Osgoods are here - they are cosplaying The Fourteenth and Fifteenth doctors, after the bigeneration.

One of them looks a bit chilly without any trousers on.

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Hurray :partying_face::partying_face::partying_face:

Thanks so much for the badge :blush:
I still can’t believe people actually listen/read my babblings about this brilliant show (and Scandinavia I suppose :wink:)

Love live TARDIS Guide :tada: :tardis: :k9: :tardispink:

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Guys, this is a bit strange.

I am standing here enjoying a cocktail (it’s called a “Sonic Screwdriver”) and all of a sudden I feel a chill in the air, and a shiver down my spine, like someone stepping on my grave.

I don’t know where it came from but there is an award envelope in my hand.

I open the envelope and it says:

Most active lurker award! This award is given to the person who spent a lot of time on the forum reading everyone’s posts in 2024 but hasn’t yet revealed themselves.

It goes to @greyherringgull! Why not introduce yourself?

Funny, I have tally marks drawn all over my face… I’d better go wash those off, I’m getting funny looks.

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Thank you one and all for my award even if sharing it with a Viking leaves a slightly bitter taste in my mouth…(probably pickled herring)

Did anyone ever share an Oscar? Ah well, at least it’s with my fan husband @BillFiler!

And incidentally, a Happy TARDIS Guide Anniversary to all of you at home as well!

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Ah but Vikings know how to celebrate :grin:

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Woooo! TARDIS Guide is having its very own Dundies! (The Tardies?)

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@shauny did you meet any of the new Unit crew? Any hints for WBTLATS?

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Not yet, things are a bit hush-hush regarding that… apparently there is trouble brewing in the sea? :eyes:

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I’ve just been exploring some of the rooms at UNIT, a lot of them are open and free to enter.

There was one room with a large tank, I couldn’t quite see in as it was dark, so I got closer and I jump back in shock after seeing a giant head inside!

A pair of ancient eyes open, and I hear directly in my head a deep, foreboding voice whispering a cryptic message:

“You are not alone!”

Oh, it’s the Face of Boe!

He’s here to announce the Most Quotes Submitted Award to the person who uploaded the most quotes to the website.

It’s @shauny! 1,049 quotes submitted!

Oh, now I understand what he means, I am not alone in earning this badge… because I am a moderator… someone else will earn it too!

It’s @sircarolyn with 178 quotes submitted! :tada:

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That is a LOT! Thank you for all the quotes!!

I wonder how many of those are from Gallifrey series… :eyes:

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That was precisely my thought :laughing:
Congratulations to everyone who’s gotten an award so far :tada:

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Woo, happy birthday to all!

And have a great awards day! The ceremony seems much more entertaining than most awards ceremonies.

Congratulations to all Tardie winners!

And oh boy, @shauny looks fabulous with a suit!

Now I sit here with my fifteen-page prepared speech for when I receive my “Finnish Member of the Year” award. Surely, there must be one of those???

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The Scandi awards are a separate thing later this year

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I heard if you read them backwards there’s a hidden satanic message. Azal, Azal!

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I cannot confirm nor deny… But I’m only up to like s6! Hundreds more quotes to come!

My first Tardie! Yay! Happy anniversary everyone!!

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