The "Cacowards" have been a joke for a long time. They are nothing more than a gimmick for the Kool Kidz Klub, to egojerk themselves and their overrated works at the end of each year. Usually voted by the same people who call all the shots around the forum, it is not uncommon for these same fags to vote for their own works, or the works of their forum friends and suckups. They then claim that the awards are "an unbiased tradition". What is awful about these awards is how they contribute to the declining mapping culture, by creating standards that go against what classic Doom is all about. Fun and quality gameplay are usually thrown out the window for dogshit maps and megawads that are considered "art" by a bunch people on estrogen pills. Needlessly overdetailed, colorless abominations with repetitve visuals, desaturated or oversaturated palettes, or they all look like Sunder and Sunlust clones. These are the only things that get any praise. As a result the forums got invaded by newbie mappers who make the same repetitive "one color high contrast void slaughter maps" over and over, without having a shred of experience with the original iWADs (Doom, Doom 2 etc.), and will never achieve a basic understanding of what makes Doom great, all because they want to have a shot at a Cacoward.