Best Brick/Half-Brick Box

[Rose]

When it gets to the Award Voting maybe we can split the awards to "traditional brick design" and "special brick accessory"!
You can nominate for either here. I say why not both! 

Clarify please. Nominations seem to be what's important here. What are we nominating on this thread? A Brick Box, or a Wooden box that happens to hold 6 to 12 decks.

My suggestion is to nominate both/all here, if I make a separate category now for "wooden boxes" all these nominations may be lost.
So if there are enough nominations for each style we can make 2 separate awards later to vote on, but at this point it is anything that holds a half brick or brick!

Is that okay with you Fes, I appreciate your input so any suggestions for or against this option will be considered!

What does everyone think about keeping all "bricks" regardless of materials here for now and we can re-assess later?

I don't agree. There is a thread up for wooden boxes now as those wooden boxes aren't brick boxes, they're accessories. From what I understand Brick boxes are for ease of manageability. 12 decks in a box are easier to negotiate than 12 decks loose. 12 brick boxes are much easier to negotiate than 144 loose decks. Helps out with handling the large volumes produced, shipped, and received. I haven't seen nor heard of any major card manufacturer using wooden boxes to accomplish that task in the year 2014. They use paper, it's light and rather flimsy only held together with cheap glue, but it accomplishes the task rather well.

I may be wrong. Just because I have never ever received a brick in a wooden box without paying for a wooden box separately doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I may not be buying from the right stores. Maybe someone is getting their bricks shipped to them in wooden boxes and I'm just not in the loop. It's certainly a possibility. Might be a question to raise in the various company topics, because if some of you are indeed getting bricks shipped to you in wooden boxes that you didn't have to pay for, I want in too.

Awards can have serious results. They're bragging rights for people/companies who win them if they choose to treat them that way. It is the public that's making the votes after all, their consumers. I think the process should be taken somewhat seriously as well, at least when dealing with the category the nomination is taken in and certainly when it comes to what category that voting takes place.

Thanks for your input Fes, there is now a NEW topic for "Wooden and Metal" boxes! So it has it's own category now, I hope this helps!

[Fess]

With Heretic scheduled to land on January second in NY, kind of a downer that it's not ellegible by one day. I absolutely love the brick box there, wish I had picked up three of them.

The best brick boxes this year in my humble opinion have Randy Butterfields name all over them. I suggest we just give him the best Brick box award for his body of work on brick boxes this year and call it good. The Ornates alone, absolutely fantastic. Boardwalk papers collectors brick box, love it! There's a quick three brick boxes. I nominate them all haha. (Break that one nomination rule, it's a bad one. )

Second the Hot cakes paper brick box so there's something here.

[Don Boyer]

With Heretic scheduled to land on January second in NY, kind of a downer that it's not ellegible by one day. I absolutely love the brick box there, wish I had picked up three of them.

The best brick boxes this year in my humble opinion have Randy Butterfields name all over them. I suggest we just give him the best Brick box award for his body of work on brick boxes this year and call it good. The Ornates alone, absolutely fantastic. Boardwalk papers collectors brick box, love it! There's a quick three brick boxes. I nominate them all haha. (Break that one nomination rule, it's a bad one. )

Second the Hot cakes paper brick box so there's something here.

OK, I'm going to count your first-nominated brick box, the Ornates.  Whether others want to nominate the rest is up to them.

As far as Heretic is concerned, it's going to miss by far more than just one day.  It's slated to arrive in the port of New York on Friday, but it still has to get to the distribution center and be packaged for shipment to backers.  It will miss by perhaps a week or two if not more.

Of the previous two nominated and seconded boxes:
-- Heretic will not distribute in time.
-- Blueblood Redux's wooden box falls in a different category.  If someone wanted to nominate their paper brick box, they can't - it and the decks started distribution on Black Friday of 2013 and isn't eligible for this year's awards.  The wooden box is eligible in the appropriate category because it started shipping in January of this year.

This leaves us with Hotcakes as the sole seconded nomination to date.  If none other gets seconded, the deck's brick box will win by default.

You have less than forty-three hours before the year ends and another twenty-four beyond that before nominations are finished.

[cbkimble]

I nominate the boardwalk papers brick box. I do t have a pic on hand but I can get one if anyone needs to see it. I really like the deck tuck and the brick box.

[Fess]

I nominate the boardwalk papers brick box. I do t have a pic on hand but I can get one if anyone needs to see it. I really like the deck tuck and the brick box.

Seconded!

[Fess]

With Heretic scheduled to land on January second in NY, kind of a downer that it's not ellegible by one day. I absolutely love the brick box there, wish I had picked up three of them.

The best brick boxes this year in my humble opinion have Randy Butterfields name all over them. I suggest we just give him the best Brick box award for his body of work on brick boxes this year and call it good. The Ornates alone, absolutely fantastic. Boardwalk papers collectors brick box, love it! There's a quick three brick boxes. I nominate them all haha. (Break that one nomination rule, it's a bad one. )

Second the Hot cakes paper brick box so there's something here.

OK, I'm going to count your first-nominated brick box, the Ornates.  Whether others want to nominate the rest is up to them.

As far as Heretic is concerned, it's going to miss by far more than just one day.  It's slated to arrive in the port of New York on Friday, but it still has to get to the distribution center and be packaged for shipment to backers.  It will miss by perhaps a week or two if not more.

Of the previous two nominated and seconded boxes:
-- Heretic will not distribute in time.
-- Blueblood Redux's wooden box falls in a different category.  If someone wanted to nominate their paper brick box, they can't - it and the decks started distribution on Black Friday of 2013 and isn't eligible for this year's awards.  The wooden box is eligible in the appropriate category because it started shipping in January of this year.

This leaves us with Hotcakes as the sole seconded nomination to date.  If none other gets seconded, the deck's brick box will win by default.

You have less than forty-three hours before the year ends and another twenty-four beyond that before nominations are finished.

Many people have been receiving some copies of Heretic in the form of their Heretic Gran Reserva decks, would that make Heretic eligible?

[Don Boyer]

Many people have been receiving some copies of Heretic in the form of their Heretic Gran Reserva decks, would that make Heretic eligible?

Only if those Gran Reserva decks are arriving in those wicked-cool nominated brick boxes.

This award isn't about the deck - it's about the box.  For example, the only reason the wooden Blueblood Redux box is permitted in the "furniture-grade" category (that really needs a better name!) is that it shipped on a different date from when the decks began shipping.  The box actually has "2013" carved right into the lid - but while the decks started shipped on Black Friday 2013, the fancy box didn't ship until January of THIS year, 2014.

It's also the same reason why a movie released in May 2014 which started advertising with trailers in 2013 isn't eligible for a 2014 Academy Award (which was given to 2013 movie releases).  The trailer might be, if there was such a category, but not the movie.

[Don Boyer]

NOMINATIONS ARE CLOSED.

As we have only one successfully-seconded nomination, I hereby declare the winner to be:

Hotcakes by Uusi

Congratulations to Uusi's Peter Dunham and Linnea Gits!

LATE EDIT: seems I overlooked a nomination that was seconded for the Boardwalk Papers Brick Box by Randy Butterfield for The Blue Crown!  We have a contest!  People will be permitted to vote for an extra 90-150 minutes, based on which category you compare it with.