It's that time of the year again...Casinomeister Awards

[Casinomeister]

Yep, December is when I go into the Winter lull and contemplate the awards for the year. If some of you are unfamiliar with this, here are the last few years:

The Best and Worst of Online Gaming
http://www.casinomeister.com/bestworst2007.php
http://www.casinomeister.com/bestworst2006.php
http://www.casinomeister.com/bestworst2005.php
http://www.casinomeister.com/bestworst2004.php

They go back to 2001.

Each year I ask for suggestions on categories you'd like to see, or anything else for that matter. Now is your chance to make your voice heard

The awards' announcement is normally made within the first couple of weeks of January.

[uungy]

Stupidest Named Casino of 2008 I think goes to twodice
Most Annoying Affiliate Program of 2008 will be grandprive
Worst Player Experience of 2007 Interwetten

[NextToYou]

Best Affiliate Program: Ladbrokes, Party Partners, BWin, Affiliate Lounge...Could name a few others, but these are some. Prompt payments, no continuous begging for more exposure but good ideas only for conversion, personal customer service...

Best Casino: Again Ladbrokes at least - several reasons like good promotions for every gambler type, fast cashouts, no annoying promotional emails/newsletters, fast email customers service, good range of gambling services (sports betting, poker, games, scratchcards...). Slot'O'Cash would be my other choice maybe.

Biggest Disappointment of the Year: Downhill of MG casinos (Go Wild and Grand Prive cases to start with)

Best Software Supplier: Well, MG still holds this, though Grand Virtual is very underrated and should get this award IMO.

Worst Software Supplier: Chartwell. Of course this is better than rigged softwares, but they are large company and have had casino software available for several years and they still haven't been able to fix the super annoying crash bugs, lag, slooooooow gaming etc. It is possible to create pretty good non-download software as Wagerworks has shown, but these guys don't seem to care.

Most Annoying Affiliate Program: I think Lucky Ace deserves this with their launch spam.


Will name a few more awards later when more comes to my mind.

[DogBoy001]

Expanding the nominations to include "best game of 2008" or "best new game of 2008" would be interesting

I don't think that's been included in the past.

And of course the "worst game of 2008" would be of interest too.

Wooof

[winbig]

For lack of a better category, I nominate GoWild for the "Head in the Sand Award" of 2008. More appropriately, maybe a new category could be created, such as: "Worst Casino Launch" or "Worst New Casino."

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...ld-casino.html

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...nores-you.html

If you add "Worst Casino Launch", I would also nominate Aladdin's Casino. Especially since they decided to do a soft-launch and lie about their affiliation with any other casino (Which turned out to be a new casino that Club World opened) to players. Once they were called out on that, they finally admitted that it was a new casino in their group.

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...ns-palace.html


Another great addition would be an "Evil Affiliate Program" award, which would be won by Grand Prive`, hands down. GW would be a close runner-up.

[1819]

For lack of a better category, I nominate GoWild for the "Head in the Sand Award" of 2008. More appropriately, maybe a new category could be created, such as: "Worst Casino Launch" or "Worst New Casino."

If you add "Worst Casino Launch", I would also nominate Aladdin's Casino. Especially since they decided to do a soft-launch and lie about their affiliation with any other casino (Which turned out to be a new casino that Club World opened) to players. Once they were called out on that, they finally admitted that it was a new casino in their group.

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...ns-palace.html

dont forget the "whodini" award.....uncle floyd has that one wrapped up. i wish i could pull a whodini as i am walking out the door for my little one's christmas concert. 40 5 year olds butchering white christmas. cant wait!

[Westland Bowl]

For the "Most Won From A $200 Deposit" category: Myself got up to $34,737 from a $200 deposit at Heroes Casino.

[KasinoKing]

Most Annoying Affiliate Program: I think Lucky Ace deserves this with their launch spam.

Definitely agree with that one!

Some other good ones above too! Here's my first input:-

Best Casino: (Bearing in mind I love me bonuses!) Ladbrokes, 32Red (again!) or Sloto'Cash.

Best Affiliate Program: Sloto'Cash - fastest payers and the one thing Rival have got right; the affy back-end is among the best in the business.

Back-stabbers of the Year: Grand Prive - obviously!

Head in the Sand award: MG for churning out slot after slot every month - never heard of Quality, not Quantity...?

Incompetence award: Rival for (nearly) always releasing a new game without proof-reading their own rules for ridiculous silly mistakes, and taking too long to fix bugs in their games.

Best new slot: Tomb Raider - Secret of the Sword (MG), or Baby Boomer's Cash Cruise (Rival)

Worst new slot: Well MG have dozens of these, but I think the worst one I played was Big Kahuna - Snakes & Ladders. Rival have a couple of contenders in this category; Western Wildness & Gobblers Gold.

Biggest Disappointment: The death of Player Preferred & Cantor (Kismet) softwares. R.I.P.

Most sickening video: The APCW sell-out to Gambling Wages video

Most annoying people: The state government (or whatever you call them) of Kentucky, USA

Biggest Missed Opportunity to make a Fortune award: All softwares / casinos who impose totally ludicrous $1 / £1 minimum chips on their Roulette instead of 10c / 10p!

KK

[babs7262]

Stupid name: LOL...that religious one that i forgot the name of(because it was so stupid)

Biggest disappointment: MG MG MG

Best Customer Service 3 dice

Worst Software glitches: Rival

Nicest new Rep: Louise from RTG

[chuchu59]

For the "Most Won From A $200 Deposit" category: Myself got up to $34,737 from a $200 deposit at Heroes Casino.

We wont believe you unless you share the spoils with us.