The time has come to crown this year's winners of the ZBB Awards! I have tabulated the votes, and it is time to give our recognition where it is due. All red-texted winners below are links.
1.
Best Conlang - The winner, as you may have guessed, is MisterBernie for
Baranxe'i. Congratulations on a job well done! MisterBernie received 8 votes out of 15 cast.
Honorable Mention: Salmoneus, for the very interesting Rawang Ata, which got 3 votes.
2.
Best Morphosyntax - The winner is... yours truly, for
Dimana Lokud, getting 3 votes out of 7 cast.
Thanks!

3.
Best Phonology or Diachronics - Whimemsz pulled way ahead of the competition with
Rehta, receiving 10 votes out of 15.
4.
Best Script - Jádyndár wins this easily, for his
Pékrif script for Gomain (PDF), with 7 votes out of 12.
5.
Best Conworld - Observer clearly wins, with 3 votes out of 8, but for which conworld? We'll say
Kćeća Ora gets it, as it got two votes, but there was also 1 for a different world of his, Sayre.
6.
Best Conworld Element, Written - Eandil's
Theory of Magic won, with 3 votes out of only 4 that were cast.
7.
Best Conworld Element, Graphical or Physical - This was by far the most competetive category! 18 votes were cast, and of those, HandsomeRob wins yet again, this time for his
City of Norrilund map (PDF), with 6 votes. Congratulations!
Honorable Mentions: Nae's Maainm map and Vampireshark's money and passports etc. were right behind, each with 5 votes. Both deserve recognition and congratulations as well.
8.
Best Topic -
The highest vote-getters were three topics that received 3 votes apiece, out of 20 cast. This fails the N+1 rule for valid ties, requiring me in my capacity as Awards organizer for 2011 to cast a tie-breaking vote.
The contenders, as stated in peoples' votes, are:
Nortaneous, for How to design a non-European phonology
Sirred, for Con Comparison: What would they think of that?
Skomakar'n, for Help your fluency in a nifty way
All three are good threads and I'm glad we have all of them; on the other hand, none of the three matter much to me personally. So since I have no real personal choice, I note that Skomakar'n's topic has a spin-off version begun by Finlay, in C&C, which also received 2 votes; this, along with the high post totals in both, to me seems better demonstration of a good topic than anything else I can think of. Therefore I cast my vote for Skomakar'n, for Help your fluency in a nifty way.The struckthrough text has been superseded by discussion below; the award now goes jointly to
Skomakar'n and to
Finlay for both threads, "Help your fluency in a nifty way" and "Help your conlang fluency", which when taken together garnered five votes. Congratulations! Sirred and Nortaneous receive official Honorable Mentions.
9.
Best Newcomer - With 15 votes cast, all but 3 went to
MisterBernie, making him our official 2011 Best Newcomer. Congratulations!
10.
Nicest or Most Helpful ZBBer - The nicest or most helpful ZBBer is hereby declared to be
Astraios, who received 6 votes out of 17 cast.
11.
Best Quote - The winner for Best Quote, receiving 3 votes out of 12 cast, is
Kereb, for
Kereb wrote:
Bob Johnson wrote:
Essay question: how does use-mention distinction apply to Godwin's law
You have 30 minutes
godddd
giving me a TIME LIMIT to answer a forum post?
what is this, NAZI GERMANY?????
Special Award for Outstanding Services to Conartistry - Receiving all 11 of the votes that were cast,
Ollock gets this award for the Conlangery Podcast! Congratulations, Ollock; the community clearly appreciates what you have done. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations to all our winners.