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It's that time of the year again—nominations for the Smog awards are now open!


In order to submit your nominations:
- Click the link above.
- Enter the username(s) of whoever you wish to nominate in the appropriate field.
- You can nominate up to five users per category; if you wish to nominate multiple people for a category, make sure you separate their usernames by commas. For example:

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- If you don't know anyone to nominate, leave the field blank; no need to fill everything out.
- You cannot edit your votes after you've submitted; if you later find you made an error, you will have to redo your ballot.
- Multiple ballots are fine.
- Your latest vote for any category is what counts.
- When you're done, click "Submit" at the bottom of the page.

Also, just as a general comment--the voting round is simply based on who receives most nominations during this round. That of course goes without saying, but that also means that the slates are as good as the people submitting their nominations. So, if during past years you've ever felt any obvious candidates were missing in any category or were dissatisfied with the ballots in general, don't forget to get your nominations in this year; don't worry if you're submitting stuff for just one category, everything is helpful. You guys are the ones we rely on to compile proper ballots, and the more material you give us to work with, the better.

That should be it! Feel free to use this thread as a discussion thread; nominations will close in a little over a week, 11:59 AM EST (UTC-5) on Jan 25th.

Happy nominating!

—Smogon's Flying Press Staff
Lumari, Quite Quiet, a fairy, bumboclaat, Kaiju Bunny, Steorra, Sulo, Tea Guzzler
 
Some notable BSS players from 2025 aside from myself. I won BSS Classic and the invitational this year, alongside a 4:1 record in BSSPL and finalist in BSSCL with a 6:3 record

luisin - won BSSPL and BSS Masters, made it to finals in BSSCL with my team

The Squash - consistent deep runs in tournaments, puts up good results anytime he plays

Cao Jie - another extremely consistent player, got top 3 in BSS Classic and finalist in BSSPL

RoyalReloaded - probably the most promising new talent right now, managed to win BSSCL on the Raging Reshirams with a stellar record as well as being runner-up in the 2025 invitational

Irene - good performance in BSSPL this year and managed to win play-ins for the final seed of BSS invitational, and then managed to make it to semifinals in the invitational bracket.

sheepie - put up a flawless regular season in his first ever teamtour (BSSCL I) and managed to make semifinals with his team.

IcyPenguin2 - solid records in BSSPL and BSSCL, has shown great game sense and positioning ability thus far.

yone - won BSSCL, finalist in BSSPL, is always a consistent top player and extremely dedicated

2025 was an awesome year for BSS and while it would be nice to win the award again I would be thrilled to see anyone on this list take it.
 
having difficulty submitting for best quote/best post -- form says i am trying to submit more than 5 when i am trying to submit exactly 5. a mod can fix this?
 
having difficulty submitting for best quote/best post -- form says i am trying to submit more than 5 when i am trying to submit exactly 5. a mod can fix this?
Link the posts of the quotes rather than the quotes themselves. If you just link the quote with no context / author it's quite possible we won't know who said it.
 
Some notable BSS players from 2025 aside from myself. I won BSS Classic and the invitational this year, alongside a 4:1 record in BSSPL and finalist in BSSCL with a 6:3 record

luisin - won BSSPL and BSS Masters, made it to finals in BSSCL with my team

The Squash - consistent deep runs in tournaments, puts up good results anytime he plays

Cao Jie - another extremely consistent player, got top 3 in BSS Classic and finalist in BSSPL

RoyalReloaded - probably the most promising new talent right now, managed to win BSSCL on the Raging Reshirams with a stellar record as well as being runner-up in the 2025 invitational

Irene - good performance in BSSPL this year and managed to win play-ins for the final seed of BSS invitational, and then managed to make it to semifinals in the invitational bracket.

sheepie - put up a flawless regular season in his first ever teamtour (BSSCL I) and managed to make semifinals with his team.

IcyPenguin2 - solid records in BSSPL and BSSCL, has shown great game sense and positioning ability thus far.

yone - won BSSCL, finalist in BSSPL, is always a consistent top player and extremely dedicated

2025 was an awesome year for BSS and while it would be nice to win the award again I would be thrilled to see anyone on this list take it.
Adding to this nominating myself

#3 seed in Invitationals winning BSS Open and a room tournament series

#VoteAldrich
#Ald4BSS
 
As one of the local in-game old men hovering around here, I want to make some Orange Islands-based nominations for you all to consider.

Tossing extra attention to Vengeance417 for the best OI poster award. Not only has he been a constant presence in the bits of OI involving battle strategy like SV raids, but he's been making some absolutely killer posts in the PLZA PVP thread. Check out this one, or maybe this hilarious one. A great presence in the section for a while now I think deserves some recognition (and probably community contributor too!)

I have had so much fun this year with PLZA's PVP that I am nominating the PLZA PVP thread as my favorite thread this year and the discord server as my favorite side discord. I don't even know if unofficial servers can be entered, but the fun in there from clips to strategy to general discussion has been too much fun not to exalt. It's the most fun I've had on Smogon this year and I want to thank all 3-4 dozenish of you hanging around for such a great time.
 
hello!!! there were a metric fuckton of avatars in 2025 u might not know about so I'm here to list my favorites from each artist so you don't miss any. visit everyone's thread and drop a like while you're at it
basically read RADUs post im stealing his swag here are my personal favourite avatars from 2025 that he didn't list in his post
also check out the masterlist of Custom Avatars uploaded in 2025 starting post 40

and here's my personal selection:

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- RUWC winners by Turtleye_
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- Turtleye_'s avatar by Turtleye_
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- MPL winners by RADU
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- Clem's avatar by Turtleye_
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- Joeshh's avatar by RADU
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- uppa's avatar by uppa
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- RCoP's winners by RADU
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- bumboclaat's avatar by Clem
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- Finchely's avatar by Flamibane
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- Brumirage's avatar by Brumirage
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- BloodAce's avatar by Horo
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- Both Spartans avatars by deetah
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- lax's avatar by Brumirage

ANY tournament avatar made by the incredible team tournament spriters team (shoutouts deetah, RADU, sharpclaw, Turtleye_, Irpachuza for their tireless work on them)

another great year of custom avys & another year in service as sprite leader, it's been a blast, happy 2026 everyone, be nice to artists
 
hi i'd like to give a shoutout to some pet mods ppl :)

zxgzxg: used to be a mod, but retired from the position, and even then he's still active around pet mods. very good at balancing and hosting stuff.
he's currently leading Random Tandem, a real neat pseudo-randbats format where you make a team of 3, and those 3 mons determine the other pokemon you get https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/random-tandem-slate-2-type-shi.3775975/#post-10835371

AquaticPanic: great at balancing, and makes real cool sprites :) here's some of his stuff!
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he really should get art badge at some point ngl...
he's also currently leading quite a lot of mods! Fusion Evolution Restrictions is a spin-off of Fusion Revolution, in which players make pokemon fusions, but in FE Restrictions they also have sets of restrictions they have to follow for their submissions! As seen on the sprites, he also sprites quite a lot of these fusions! https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...ubmission-phase.3770550/page-12#post-10837957
Six-by-Six was recently completed, its neat mod where there's only 6 mons, but each of them have 6 different forms! https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/six-by-six-the-final-slate-now-complete.3769141/
And Super Smash Mods Brawl, is a newer iteration of the Super Smash Mods series where people submit mons from multiple other mods, into one meta! https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/super-smash-mods-brawl-new-challengers-approach.3768342/


Gekokeso: cool moderator, and also responsible for about every big tournament in the pet mods scene. was the main host for PMPL IV, and is now the main host for SPL (Solomods Premier League ofc) III, which you should check out! https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/solomods-premier-league-iii-commencement.3775134/


Jumpheart: leads two of the biggest pet mods and solomods in Iron Fist and Do Not Use, which you should check out! Iron Fist is a mod with a bunch of both fun and balanced new mechanics and mons, with some funny stuff thrown in as well. https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/iron-fist-slate-11-results.3748853/
And DNU is a solomod where only extremely bad mons are usable. Its one of the most played solomods, is featured in SoloPL III, and has multiple spin-offs! https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/gen-9-do-not-use-new-samples.3734326/

CoruptedUsername: biased nom, has been a great help in playtesting my mod, helped in coding the last balance changes of it, coded its calc (which also contains the calc of other mods), and is also one of the more active DNU members!

Fragmented biased nom #2. have helped me since like day 1 in managing my mod, and has always been my second opinion whenever im doubting something, she's also been active around Iron Fist!

Yoshiblaze: my GOAT. Has coded every mod i've made, and even more, voluntarily, which has always sounded like an insane effort to me, he's got that programmer badge more than deserved. also a moderator, and is the main person managing PMoTM (Pet Mod of The Month). Has also made many solomods, with Best Wishes from YB, a mod which reworks the original BW format (which you should also check out https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/solomods-megathread.3711007/post-10590904), being featured in SoloPL III!

Now with all of those CHUMPS out of the way, i can talk about me :)

Have made lots of art for Pet Mods as a whole, which includes the banner for SoloPL III, art the most recent Pet Mods Articles, and likeshop art for the Iron Fist main ladder bid.
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Been also leading my own mod, Blank Canvas, for a year already, which is a micrometa where people sign-up, are put into teams, and make a fakemon within a point limit! https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/blank-canvas.3748841/

Been also making art and sprites for the fakemon in the mod! Which yall can check out below the op of the thread!


Thanks for reading, and i hope more ppl check out pet mods :)
 
Link the posts of the quotes rather than the quotes themselves. If you just link the quote with no context / author it's quite possible we won't know who said it.
yes this is what i have been doing. [short description]: url

e.g.:
bp's onomatopoeia: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-discord-quote-database.3670219/page-11#post-9088471

x5, separated with commas. just the urls w/o any other text returned the same result ("please do not submit more than 5 options for best post" message). really quite distraught as i have 5 good posts and 5 good quotes to submit. any help appreciated.
 
yes this is what i have been doing. [short description]: url

e.g.:
bp's onomatopoeia: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-discord-quote-database.3670219/page-11#post-9088471

x5, separated with commas. just the urls w/o any other text returned the same result ("please do not submit more than 5 options for best post" message). really quite distraught as i have 5 good posts and 5 good quotes to submit. any help appreciated.
I don't really see why this should work as-is, but either give the exact things you've been trying, or split them in two responses and we'll combine them when compiling nominations afterwards.
 
As one of the local in-game old men hovering around here, I want to make some Orange Islands-based nominations for you all to consider.

Tossing extra attention to Vengeance417 for the best OI poster award. Not only has he been a constant presence in the bits of OI involving battle strategy like SV raids, but he's been making some absolutely killer posts in the PLZA PVP thread. Check out this one, or maybe this hilarious one. A great presence in the section for a while now I think deserves some recognition (and probably community contributor too!)

I have had so much fun this year with PLZA's PVP that I am nominating the PLZA PVP thread as my favorite thread this year and the discord server as my favorite side discord. I don't even know if unofficial servers can be entered, but the fun in there from clips to strategy to general discussion has been too much fun not to exalt. It's the most fun I've had on Smogon this year and I want to thank all 3-4 dozenish of you hanging around for such a great time.
We did kween out
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