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Spring Awards

2026-03-10T19:54:50Z

The Courier: /* Town Knockouts */

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2025, the Spring Awards are inactive.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This was to be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote placed a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition. The 2025 edition was cancelled by The Courier due to lack of interest in nominations.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|N/A
|-
|Sparta
|N/A
|-
|}
==2026 Spring Awards==
The 2026 Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first time that the communities of two platforms (Virtual Paradise & DeltaWorlds) entered into a joint awards contest.
===2026 Spring Awards bidding results===
For this contest, only cities & worlds within VP were allowed to bid for hosting. Three cities (SV, PC & NB) launched formal bids to host. Summerville ultimately became the first community with 8 votes to host a Spring Awards for a second time after winning the bid on 10/24/2025.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|8
|-
|Pine County
|4
|-
|New Beachfield
|1
|}
===Town Knockouts===
Altes Antiquo & Mystic Lands (DeltaWorlds) would be the last two into the knockouts and both faced off their top seeds of Summerville & Pine County respectfully. Both lost by 5-1 and 4-2 each, while Chimerock and Victoria easily dominated their competition 5-1. In the semifinals round, Chimerock and Summerville would be decided by a dice roll due to a tie in votes, in which Summerville won out. Victoria lost 5-3 to Pine County in a rematch of the 2024 Finals. This marked the first time in the history of the Spring Awards that a previous winner will be eligible to obtain a second title (only Victoria, Summerville, and Pine County have previous titles, and all were in ). The winners of the 2026 Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
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===World Knockouts===
ToTheTop & Blizzard represented the VP side of the bracket while DWMyths & Asecret represented the DW side of the bracket. Blizzard won a tie-breaker against ToTheTop in the semifinals, while DWMyths breezed through its competition 6-2. The winners of the World Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
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===Community Projects===
ToTheTop won the Virtual Paradise Project Award due to the other major contestant withdrawing from the category. The DW winner is TBA.
===Best Build===
TBA
===Community Leadership===
TBA.

Spring Awards

2026-03-10T19:51:55Z

The Courier: /* World Knockouts */

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2025, the Spring Awards are inactive.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This was to be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote placed a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition. The 2025 edition was cancelled by The Courier due to lack of interest in nominations.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|N/A
|-
|Sparta
|N/A
|-
|}
==2026 Spring Awards==
The 2026 Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first time that the communities of two platforms (Virtual Paradise & DeltaWorlds) entered into a joint awards contest.
===2026 Spring Awards bidding results===
For this contest, only cities & worlds within VP were allowed to bid for hosting. Three cities (SV, PC & NB) launched formal bids to host. Summerville ultimately became the first community with 8 votes to host a Spring Awards for a second time after winning the bid on 10/24/2025.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|8
|-
|Pine County
|4
|-
|New Beachfield
|1
|}
===Town Knockouts===
Altes Antiquo & Mystic Lands (DeltaWorlds) would be the last two into the knockouts and both faced off their top seeds of Summerville & Pine County respectfully. Both lost by 5-1 and 4-2 each, while Chimerock and Victoria easily dominated their competition 5-1. In the semifinals round, Chimerock and Summerville would be decided by a dice roll due to a tie in votes, in which Summerville won out. Victoria lost 5-3 to Pine County in a rematch of the 2024 Finals. The winners of the 2026 Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
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===World Knockouts===
ToTheTop & Blizzard represented the VP side of the bracket while DWMyths & Asecret represented the DW side of the bracket. Blizzard won a tie-breaker against ToTheTop in the semifinals, while DWMyths breezed through its competition 6-2. The winners of the World Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
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| RD3-team4=N/A
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===Community Projects===
ToTheTop won the Virtual Paradise Project Award due to the other major contestant withdrawing from the category. The DW winner is TBA.
===Best Build===
TBA
===Community Leadership===
TBA.

Spring Awards

2026-03-10T19:48:28Z

The Courier: /* Town Knockouts */ adding bracket

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2025, the Spring Awards are inactive.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD1-team6=GZ
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This was to be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote placed a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition. The 2025 edition was cancelled by The Courier due to lack of interest in nominations.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|N/A
|-
|Sparta
|N/A
|-
|}
==2026 Spring Awards==
The 2026 Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first time that the communities of two platforms (Virtual Paradise & DeltaWorlds) entered into a joint awards contest.
===2026 Spring Awards bidding results===
For this contest, only cities & worlds within VP were allowed to bid for hosting. Three cities (SV, PC & NB) launched formal bids to host. Summerville ultimately became the first community with 8 votes to host a Spring Awards for a second time after winning the bid on 10/24/2025.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|8
|-
|Pine County
|4
|-
|New Beachfield
|1
|}
===Town Knockouts===
Altes Antiquo & Mystic Lands (DeltaWorlds) would be the last two into the knockouts and both faced off their top seeds of Summerville & Pine County respectfully. Both lost by 5-1 and 4-2 each, while Chimerock and Victoria easily dominated their competition 5-1. In the semifinals round, Chimerock and Summerville would be decided by a dice roll due to a tie in votes, in which Summerville won out. Victoria lost 5-3 to Pine County in a rematch of the 2024 Finals. The winners of the 2026 Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
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===World Knockouts===
ToTheTop & Blizzard represented the VP side of the bracket while DWMyths & Asecret represented the DW side of the bracket. Blizzard won a tie-breaker against ToTheTop in the semifinals, while DWMyths breezed through its competition 6-2. The winners of the World Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
===Community Projects===
ToTheTop won the Virtual Paradise Project Award due to the other major contestant withdrawing from the category. The DW winner is TBA.
===Best Build===
TBA
===Community Leadership===
TBA.

Spring Awards

2026-03-10T19:44:34Z

The Courier:

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2025, the Spring Awards are inactive.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD1-team3=Sunset Gland
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| RD1-team4=Parliament Complex
| RD1-score4=

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| RD1-team5=Whalen International
| RD1-score5=
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| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Gov's Mansion
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| RD1-team8=Blizzard Road Network
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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| RD1-team4=Eden Bar
| RD1-score4=3

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| RD1-score6= 1

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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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| RD2-score3=2
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| RD2-score4=5

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| RD3-score2=

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===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This was to be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote placed a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition. The 2025 edition was cancelled by The Courier due to lack of interest in nominations.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|N/A
|-
|Sparta
|N/A
|-
|}
==2026 Spring Awards==
The 2026 Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first time that the communities of two platforms (Virtual Paradise & DeltaWorlds) entered into a joint awards contest.
===2026 Spring Awards bidding results===
For this contest, only cities & worlds within VP were allowed to bid for hosting. Three cities (SV, PC & NB) launched formal bids to host. Summerville ultimately became the first community with 8 votes to host a Spring Awards for a second time after winning the bid on 10/24/2025.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|8
|-
|Pine County
|4
|-
|New Beachfield
|1
|}
===Town Knockouts===
Altes Antiquo & Mystic Lands (DeltaWorlds) would be the last two into the knockouts and both faced off their top seeds of Summerville & Pine County respectfully. Both lost by 5-1 and 4-2 each, while Chimerock and Victoria easily dominated their competition 5-1. In the semifinals round, Chimerock and Summerville would be decided by a dice roll due to a tie in votes, in which Summerville won out. Victoria lost 5-3 to Pine County in a rematch of the 2024 Finals. The winners of the 2026 Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
===World Knockouts===
ToTheTop & Blizzard represented the VP side of the bracket while DWMyths & Asecret represented the DW side of the bracket. Blizzard won a tie-breaker against ToTheTop in the semifinals, while DWMyths breezed through its competition 6-2. The winners of the World Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.
===Community Projects===
ToTheTop won the Virtual Paradise Project Award due to the other major contestant withdrawing from the category. The DW winner is TBA.
===Best Build===
TBA
===Community Leadership===
TBA.

Spring Awards

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The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2025, the Spring Awards are inactive.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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| RD1-team1=RyanLion
| RD1-score1=WON
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=Legion
| RD1-score2=LOST

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=The Courier
| RD1-score3=WON
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=trooper
| RD1-score4=LOST

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Edwin
| RD1-score5=WON
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Melody Minifig
| RD1-score6=LOST

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tom
| RD1-score7=LOST
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=GSK
| RD1-score8=WON

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=RyanLion
| RD2-score1=WON
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=The Courier
| RD2-score2=LOST

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Edwin
| RD2-score3=WON
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=GSK
| RD2-score4=LOST

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=RyanLion
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Edwin
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD1=Quarter-Finals
| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1=Rezdog
| RD1-score1=
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=New Rockford
| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Sunset Gland
| RD1-score3=
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Parliament Complex
| RD1-score4=

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Whalen International
| RD1-score5=
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Gov's Mansion
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Blizzard Road Network
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=Rezdog
| RD3-score1=WON
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD1-score1=13
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=The Church
| RD1-score2=2

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=World Trade Center
| RD1-score3=12
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Eden Bar
| RD1-score4=3

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Victoria City Hall
| RD1-score5=14
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=PC Towers
| RD1-score6= 1

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tower of Terror
| RD1-score7=14
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Leo Interiors
| RD1-score8=1

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=World Trade Center
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Victoria City Hall
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=Tower of Terror
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=WTC
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=TOT
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
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| group2=

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| team-width=150px

| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1=Altes Antiguo
| RD1-score1=5
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=Lynnfield
| RD1-score2=3

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Sparta
| RD1-score3=0
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Victoria
| RD1-score4=8

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Pine County
| RD1-score5=6
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=NCH
| RD1-score6=2

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Cannaville
| RD1-score7=0
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Summerville
| RD1-score8=8

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Altes Antiguo
| RD2-score1=3
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=Victoria
| RD2-score2=4

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Summerville
| RD2-score3=2
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=Pine County
| RD2-score4=5

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=Pine County
| RD3-score1=
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Victoria
| RD3-score2=

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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| RD1-seed4=
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| RD1-score4=

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=
| RD1-score5=
| RD1-seed6=
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| RD1-score6=

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=
| RD3-score1=
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This was to be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote placed a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition. The 2025 edition was cancelled by The Courier due to lack of interest in nominations.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|N/A
|-
|Sparta
|N/A
|-
|}
==2026 Spring Awards==
The 2026 Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first time that the communities of two platforms (Virtual Paradise & DeltaWorlds) entered into a joint awards contest.
===2026 Spring Awards bidding results===
For this contest, only cities & worlds within VP were allowed to bid for hosting. Three cities (SV, PC & NB) launched formal bids to host. Summerville ultimately became the first community with 8 votes to host a Spring Awards for a second time after winning the bid on 10/24/2025.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|8
|-
|Pine County
|4
|-
|New Beachfield
|1
|}
==Town Knockouts==
Altes Antiquo & Mystic Lands (DeltaWorlds) would be the last two into the knockouts and both faced off their top seeds of Summerville & Pine County respectfully. Both lost by 5-1 and 4-2 each, while Chimerock and Victoria easily dominated their competition 5-1. In the semifinals round, Chimerock and Summerville would be decided by a dice roll due to a tie in votes, in which Summerville won out. Victoria lost 5-3 to Pine County in a rematch of the 2024 Finals. The winners of the 2026 Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.

Spring Awards

2026-03-10T19:40:04Z

The Courier: /* Town Knockouts */

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2025, the Spring Awards are inactive.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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| RD3=Final
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| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
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| RD1-score3=1
| RD1-seed4=
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| RD1-score4=14

| RD1-seed5=
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| RD1-score5=11
| RD1-seed6=
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| RD1-score6=3

| RD1-seed7=
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| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=New Cypress Hollow
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Lapis Vidrium
| RD2-score1=LOST
| RD2-seed2=
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| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Summerville
| RD2-score3=LOST
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=New Huntington
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| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=New Huntington
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Victoria
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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| RD3=Final
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| RD1-score3=WON
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=trooper
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| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Edwin
| RD1-score5=WON
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Melody Minifig
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| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tom
| RD1-score7=LOST
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=GSK
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| RD2-seed1=
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| RD2-seed3=
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| RD2-score3=WON
| RD2-seed4=
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| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=RyanLion
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| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD3=Final
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| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Sunset Gland
| RD1-score3=
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Parliament Complex
| RD1-score4=

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Whalen International
| RD1-score5=
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Gov's Mansion
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Blizzard Road Network
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
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| RD2-team2=
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
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| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
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| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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| RD3=Final
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| group2=

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| RD1-score1=13
| RD1-seed2=
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| RD1-seed3=
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| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Eden Bar
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| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Victoria City Hall
| RD1-score5=14
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=PC Towers
| RD1-score6= 1

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tower of Terror
| RD1-score7=14
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Leo Interiors
| RD1-score8=1

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=World Trade Center
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Victoria City Hall
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=Tower of Terror
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=WTC
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=TOT
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
Altes Antiquo & Mystic Lands (DeltaWorlds) would be the last two into the knockouts and both faced off their top seeds of Summerville & Pine County respectfully. Both lost by 5-1 and 4-2 each, while Chimerock and Victoria easily dominated their competition 5-1. In the semifinals round, Chimerock and Summerville would be decided by a dice roll due to a tie in votes, in which Summerville won out. Victoria lost 5-3 to Pine County in a rematch of the 2024 Finals. The winners of the 2026 Finals will be announced 3/14/2026.

===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This was to be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote placed a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition. The 2025 edition was cancelled by The Courier due to lack of interest in nominations.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|N/A
|-
|Sparta
|N/A
|-
|}
==2026 Spring Awards==
The 2026 Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first time that the communities of two platforms (Virtual Paradise & DeltaWorlds) entered into a joint awards contest.
===2026 Spring Awards bidding results===
For this contest, only cities & worlds within VP were allowed to bid for hosting. Three cities (SV, PC & NB) launched formal bids to host. Summerville ultimately became the first community with 8 votes to host a Spring Awards for a second time after winning the bid on 10/24/2025.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|8
|-
|Pine County
|4
|-
|New Beachfield
|1
|}

Spring Awards

2025-10-26T15:05:12Z

The Courier: /* 2026 Spring Awards bidding results */

Spring Awards

2025-10-19T16:03:42Z

The Courier:

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2025, the Spring Awards are inactive.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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| RD1-team8=New Cypress Hollow
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

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| RD1-team8=Blizzard Road Network
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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| RD3-team3=
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===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This was to be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote placed a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition. The 2025 edition was cancelled by The Courier due to lack of interest in nominations.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|N/A
|-
|Sparta
|N/A
|-
|}
==2026 Spring Awards==
The 2026 Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first time that the communities of two platforms (Virtual Paradise & DeltaWorlds) entered into a joint awards contest.
===2026 Spring Awards bidding results===
For this contest, only cities & worlds within VP will be allowed to bid for hosting.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|Pending
|-
|New Beachfield
|Pending
|-
|}

Spring Awards

2024-12-08T17:59:04Z

The Courier:

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2023, the 2024 Spring Awards are currently planned to be underway later on with a date to be determined after bids.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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==2025 Spring Awards==
The 2025 edition of the Spring Awards was confirmed by The Courier to take place. This will be the first edition of the Spring Awards where a bidding vote places a non-Blizzard venue against a Blizzard venue, as well as the first time an entire world entered into the competition.
===2025 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Venue
!Votes
|-
|Retreat
|Pending
|-
|Sparta
|Pending
|-
|}

List of communities

2024-11-03T14:02:12Z

The Courier:

This page lists the following cities in Virtual Paradise. Some cities are one-person projects while others are more open to builders.

==[[VP-Build]]==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" width=100%
|-
!Name
!Coordinates
!Date established
!Mayor(s)
!Jump Command
!Notes
|-
||[[Lapis Viridia]]
||
||2018
||Dragon
||!j lapisviridia
||Dormant as of 2023. Solo project, notably the only non-Blizzard town.
|-
|}

==[[Blizzard]]==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" width=100%
|-
!Name
!Coordinates
!Date established
!Mayor(s)
!Jump Command
!Notes
|-
||[[Chimerock]]
||-2380X -292Z
||5 August 2017
||[[User:alstanbery|alstanbery]]
||!j chimerock
||Dormant as of 2023.
|-
||[[New Beachfield]]
||26X 195Z
||July 2013
||[[User:Sarah|Sarah]], [[User:The Courier|The Courier]]
||!j nb
||Active as of 2023.
|-
||[[New Cypress Hollow]]
||100 0 100 -180
||12 November 2012
||[[User:GC|GC]]
||!j nch
||Actively maintained as of 2023, historically the capital of the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] project.
|-
||[[Lynnfield]]
||71X -105Z
||4 August 2013
||[[User:RyanLennon|RyanLennon]], [[User:graystripe|graystripe]]
||!j lf
||Formerly New Huntington, actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Summerville]]
||328.661X -66.346Z 180
||2013
||[[User:graystripe|graystripe]]
||!j summerville
||Actively maintained as of 2023, current landing zone/flagship for Blizzard.
|-
||[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]]
||2X 145Z
||9 September 2015
||[[User:The Courier|The Courier]]
||!j vicky
||Actively maintained as of 2023, capital city of the [[Victoria|Victoria region]].
|-
||[[Sparta]]
||-76X 216Z
||April 2023
||Zezima
||!j sparta
||Actively maintained as of 2024, also containing the former city of Cannaville.
|-
||[[Pine County]]
||-333X 1.5Y -634Z
||January 2016
||[[User:Demon Dogg|Demon Dogg]]
||!j pinecounty
||Formerly Countryside, actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Altes Antiguo]]
||-78X 159Z
||2017/2023
||Ry
||!j resort
||Formerly part of the city of Victoria, now an independently maintained city as of 2023.
|-
||[[Glass]]
||TBA
||November 2017
||{{user|GSK}}
||TBA
||In development as of February 2024.
|-
|}

[[Category:Communities| ]]
[[Category:Lists|c]]

List of communities

2024-11-03T14:01:25Z

The Courier:

This page lists the following cities in Virtual Paradise. Some cities are one-person projects while others are more open to builders.

==[[VP-Build]]==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" width=100%
|-
!Name
!Coordinates
!Date established
!Mayor(s)
!Jump Command
!Notes
|-
||[[Lapis Viridia]]
||
||2018
||Dragon
||!j lapisviridia
||Dormant as of 2023. Solo project, notably the only non-Blizzard town.
|-
|}

==[[Blizzard]]==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" width=100%
|-
!Name
!Coordinates
!Date established
!Mayor(s)
!Jump Command
!Notes
|-
||[[Chimerock]]
||-2380X -292Z
||5 August 2017
||[[User:alstanbery|alstanbery]]
||!j chimerock
||Dormant as of 2023.
|-
||[[New Beachfield]]
||26X 195Z
||July 2013
||[[User:Sarah|Sarah]], [[User:The Courier|The Courier]]
||!j nb
||Active as of 2023.
|-
||[[New Cypress Hollow]]
||100 0 100 -180
||12 November 2012
||[[User:GC|GC]]
||!j nch
||Actively maintained as of 2023, historically the capital of the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] project.
|-
||[[Lynnfield]]
||71X -105Z
||4 August 2013
||[[User:RyanLennon|RyanLennon]], [[User:graystripe|graystripe]]
||!j lf
||Formerly New Huntington, actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Summerville]]
||328.661X -66.346Z 180
||2013
||[[User:graystripe|graystripe]]
||!j summerville
||Actively maintained as of 2023, current landing zone/flagship for Blizzard.
|-
||[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]]
||2X 145Z
||9 September 2015
||[[User:The Courier|The Courier]]
||!j vicky
||Actively maintained as of 2023, capital city of the [[Victoria|Victoria region]].
|-
||[[Sparta]]
||-76X 216Z
||April 2023
||Zezima
||!j sparta
||Actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||
||
||
||
||
||
|-
||[[Pine County]]
||-333X 1.5Y -634Z
||January 2016
||[[User:Demon Dogg|Demon Dogg]]
||!j pinecounty
||Formerly Countryside, actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Altes Antiguo]]
||-78X 159Z
||2017/2023
||Ry
||!j resort
||Formerly part of the city of Victoria, now an independently maintained city as of 2023.
|-
||[[Glass]]
||TBA
||November 2017
||{{user|GSK}}
||TBA
||In development as of February 2024.
|-
|}

[[Category:Communities| ]]
[[Category:Lists|c]]

Sparta

2024-11-03T14:00:31Z

The Courier: cannaville merger

{{City
|image=Sparta.jpg
|leaders=Zezima
|running={{yes}}
|founded=2023
|nation=*[[Victoria]]
*[[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|The Commonwealth]]
|vps=[https://vp.mrw.im/sparta/ https://vp.mrw.im/sparta/]
}}
'''Sparta''' is a small city in Curtis County, [[Victoria]] located at -76X 216Z.
==Overview==
Sparta was founded by Zezima in 2023 as a building project in-between Altes Antiquo & Victoria to the south, New Beachfield to the west, and Cannaville to its north that served to link the other communities together directly. Prior to its creation, it was considered shared land between Victoria City & Cannaville until the consent for a new project was given to Zezima. In 2024, the city of Cannaville as well as its county was dissolved and merged with Sparta due to considerable community controversy, expanding Sparta's territorial reach considerably. As a result, Sparta is the largest of the Victoria members by pure territorial size. Sparta is the seat of Curtis County, named in honor of the esteemed late Roy Curtis.

Victoria

2024-11-03T13:52:53Z

The Courier: /* Government */

{{Nation
|image=Victoria_flag.png
|tagline=
|leaders='''Senior Peers of Victoria'''
*The Courier
*Ry
*deathofashes99
*Zezima
*Cypress
|founded=*2015
|government=Metropolitan region operating as a federation of cities.
|members=See below.
|vps=[https://vp.mrw.im/victoria https://vp.mrw.im/victoria]
}}
'''Victoria''' is a large area in Northern Blizzard that borders [[New Cypress Hollow]] and [[Downtown Blizzard]]. From 2015 to 2023, this area of Blizzard was under control of the wider '''Victorian Republic''', an initial alternative to the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] that dominated other developed areas of the world. In 2024, Victoria remains as a cultural, metropolitan federation of communities in Northern Blizzard.
==History==
===Republican Victoria (2015-2023)===
The city of Victoria was created in 2015 after declaring it's independence from the AW-based XR, a similar union of cities and worlds. As much of the essential government moved over from AW to VP, Victoria would become the seat of power for the new Victorian Republic by 2016, which laid claim to a significant chunk of Northern Blizzard that was not taken by existing projects. An immediate issue at the time was Victoria simply being new & not taken seriously by the community. Builders usually chose to work on established projects, particularly those tied to communities affiliated with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], which acted as the de-facto community government for Blizzard. Victoria had to rely entirely on bringing over newer people from AW via aggressive advertising, notably individuals such as OptimumPx & GSK who would proceed to do their own things in the long-term.

Cannaville would be created in late 2016, becoming one of the first city projects to openly declare an affiliation with Victoria over Palmshire. This would lead to Victoria itself ceasing any discussion about merging with the rest of Blizzard, choosing to pursue its own agenda. Around the same time, Victoria would spearhead conversations within the larger community via the VP Facebook group alongside [[Summerville]], jointly accusing the Parliament of Palmshire of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. This essentially ensured the collapse of Palmshire & its government, as well as that of the [[Lemerican Federation]] due to community fallout, leaving Victoria as the only "national government" operational in Blizzard & her capital being one of only two operational cities (the other being Summerville) for a long period of time.

Eventually, advanced notice of Vinesauce coming to visit VP by 2017 would unite all of VP towards putting aside prior drama & trying to fix up the world. Victoria by this point still nominally had a republic, but it was essentially on life-support and only Victoria proper was still an actively maintained city, just barely. Fallout from the Vinesauce visit further outraged the VP community at large, and functionally put many projects including Vicky in limbo. It would not be until the COVID-19 pandemic that a resurgence in interest took VP by storm and resurrected certain projects such as Vicky. By 2022, the Victorian Republic was formally dissolved & the capital itself was again placed in maintenance mode.

===Dissolution of the Republic & Modern Victoria (2023-present)===
The Victorian Republic was dissolved because it became untenable & increasingly outdated in a VP that no longer had such an emphasis on nation RP. The only other legitimate community in the republic apart from Victoria was Cannaville, which at the time was also seen as being abandoned by Zeke. However, fallout from changes in AW during early 2023 would spur another burst of interest in VP from outsiders & long-term members alike. Ironically, Cannaville would be revitalized shortly after the dissolution of the republic & play an additional major role in keeping the concept of Victoria as a idea alive. The suburbs of Altes Antiguo & Sparta would also be shortly created around the immediate vicinity of Victoria as well as the ascension of New Beachfield with Vicky, leading to a federation of autonomous communities operating under the banner of a new Victoria.

Cannaville became the first city to be ejected from the rest of Victoria under the regional system on October 2024, and shortly after also became the first to rejoin, dissolve, and merge with another community (Sparta) due to internal issues as an independent community.

==Government==
The region of Victoria is largely a grouping of federated counties. All of these counties agree to acknowledge that they are apart of the nation of Victoria, although they have a high degree of autonomy in how they operate their individual affairs:
*[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]] (Victoria County), which is also the recognized capital of the region.
*[[Sparta]] (Curtis County)
*[[Altes Antiguo]] (Altes County)
*[[New Beachfield]] (New Beachfield County)

Each county is represented by a Senior Peer, the acknowledged leader of a county, and agrees to collaborate with neighboring other counties towards building up the region of Victoria. These peers can appoint Junior Peers which are recognized city government officials. All are members of the government, known as the Peerage of Victoria, and may be called upon to participate within meetings pertaining to matters involving the region at the request of a Senior Peer.

As of October 2024, the Peerage of Victoria consisted of the following members:
*Victoria is represented by '''The Courier''' as a Senior Peer, with '''OptimumPx''' as a Junior Peer.
*Altes Antiguo is represented by '''Ry''' as a Senior Peer.
*Sparta is represented by '''Zezima & deathofashes99''' as Senior Peers. Cannaville originally was an independent community in Victoria, until its merger into Sparta in October 2024.
*New Beachfield was represented by '''Cypress''' as a Senior Peer.
[[Category:Victoria]]

Victoria

2024-10-28T23:55:05Z

The Courier:

{{Nation
|image=Victoria_flag.png
|tagline=
|leaders='''Senior Peers of Victoria'''
*The Courier
*Ry
*deathofashes99
*Zezima
*Cypress
|founded=*2015
|government=Metropolitan region operating as a federation of cities.
|members=See below.
|vps=[https://vp.mrw.im/victoria https://vp.mrw.im/victoria]
}}
'''Victoria''' is a large area in Northern Blizzard that borders [[New Cypress Hollow]] and [[Downtown Blizzard]]. From 2015 to 2023, this area of Blizzard was under control of the wider '''Victorian Republic''', an initial alternative to the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] that dominated other developed areas of the world. In 2024, Victoria remains as a cultural, metropolitan federation of communities in Northern Blizzard.
==History==
===Republican Victoria (2015-2023)===
The city of Victoria was created in 2015 after declaring it's independence from the AW-based XR, a similar union of cities and worlds. As much of the essential government moved over from AW to VP, Victoria would become the seat of power for the new Victorian Republic by 2016, which laid claim to a significant chunk of Northern Blizzard that was not taken by existing projects. An immediate issue at the time was Victoria simply being new & not taken seriously by the community. Builders usually chose to work on established projects, particularly those tied to communities affiliated with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], which acted as the de-facto community government for Blizzard. Victoria had to rely entirely on bringing over newer people from AW via aggressive advertising, notably individuals such as OptimumPx & GSK who would proceed to do their own things in the long-term.

Cannaville would be created in late 2016, becoming one of the first city projects to openly declare an affiliation with Victoria over Palmshire. This would lead to Victoria itself ceasing any discussion about merging with the rest of Blizzard, choosing to pursue its own agenda. Around the same time, Victoria would spearhead conversations within the larger community via the VP Facebook group alongside [[Summerville]], jointly accusing the Parliament of Palmshire of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. This essentially ensured the collapse of Palmshire & its government, as well as that of the [[Lemerican Federation]] due to community fallout, leaving Victoria as the only "national government" operational in Blizzard & her capital being one of only two operational cities (the other being Summerville) for a long period of time.

Eventually, advanced notice of Vinesauce coming to visit VP by 2017 would unite all of VP towards putting aside prior drama & trying to fix up the world. Victoria by this point still nominally had a republic, but it was essentially on life-support and only Victoria proper was still an actively maintained city, just barely. Fallout from the Vinesauce visit further outraged the VP community at large, and functionally put many projects including Vicky in limbo. It would not be until the COVID-19 pandemic that a resurgence in interest took VP by storm and resurrected certain projects such as Vicky. By 2022, the Victorian Republic was formally dissolved & the capital itself was again placed in maintenance mode.

===Dissolution of the Republic & Modern Victoria (2023-present)===
The Victorian Republic was dissolved by The Courier because it became untenable & increasingly outdated in a VP that no longer had such an emphasis on nation RP. The only other legitimate community in the republic apart from Victoria was Cannaville, which at the time was also seen as being abandoned by Zeke. However, fallout from changes in AW during early 2023 would spur another burst of interest in VP from outsiders & long-term members alike. Ironically, Cannaville would be revitalized shortly after the dissolution of the republic & play an additional major role in keeping the concept of Victoria as a idea alive. The suburbs of Altes Antiguo & Sparta would also be shortly created around the immediate vicinity of Victoria as well as the second merger of New Beachfield with Vicky, leading to a federation of autonomous communities operating under the banner of a new Victoria.

Cannaville became the first city to be ejected from the rest of Victoria under the regional system on October 2024, and shortly after also became the first to rejoin, dissolve, and merge with another community (Sparta) due to internal issues as an independent community.

==Government==
The region of Victoria is largely a grouping of federated counties. All of these counties agree to acknowledge that they are apart of the nation of Victoria, although they have a high degree of autonomy in how they operate their individual affairs:
*[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]] (Victoria County), which is also the recognized capital of the region.
*[[Sparta]] & [[Cannaville]] (Canterra County)
*[[Altes Antiguo]] (Altes County)
*[[New Beachfield]] (New Beachfield County)

Each county is represented by a Senior Peer, the acknowledged leader of a county, and agrees to collaborate with neighboring other counties towards building up the region of Victoria. These peers can appoint Junior Peers which are recognized city government officials. All are members of the government, known as the Peerage of Victoria, and may be called upon to participate within meetings pertaining to matters involving the region at the request of a Senior Peer.

As of October 2024, the Peerage of Victoria consisted of the following members:
*Victoria is represented by '''The Courier''' as a Senior Peer, with '''OptimumPx''' as a Junior Peer.
*Altes Antiguo is represented by '''Ry''' as a Senior Peer.
*Sparta & Cannaville are represented by '''Zezima & deathofashes99''' as Senior Peers. Cannaville originally was an independent community in Victoria, until its merger into Sparta in October 2024.
*New Beachfield was represented by '''Cypress''' as a Senior Peer.
[[Category:Victoria]]

Victoria (city)

2024-10-13T20:40:03Z

The Courier:

{{City
|image=Victoria city.png
|leaders=*'''Mayor:''' The Courier
*'''County Peers:''' Courier, RyLy, deathofashes99, Zezima, Cypress
|running={{yes}}
|founded=2015
|nation=*[[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|The Commonwealth]]
*[[Victoria|Region of Victoria]]
|vps=[https://vp.mrw.im/victoria/ https://vp.mrw.im/victoria/]
}}
'''Victoria''', unofficially also known as '''Vicky''' is a city in [[Blizzard]]. Started in 2015 as an experimental offshoot of a larger building community in Active Worlds, the city of Victoria became a proper independent project in the aftermath of the city's main leaders being forcibly exiled onto Virtual Paradise due to larger community drama in AW. Victoria itself is notable for having inspired later cities as well as having brought people over who would become respected as master builders within the VP community at large.

Victoria has played the role of capital to the former Xennan Republic, the Victorian Republic, and the provisional seat of government for the [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|Commonwealth]]. Victoria is also the central flagship city within the overall '''region of [[Victoria]]''', an wider area that includes Cannaville, New Beachfield & Sparta as associated suburbs and counties of Vicky.
==History==
===Beginnings===
[[File:Early vicky.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Vicky in 2015]]
In 2015, citizens of Alphaworld began work on a new city called Fantasia. The city became a boom-town for residents that continued to make use of the platform, and it had attracted builders such as OptimumPx and KoL to come together and form a unique building group called the Xennan Republic. As the community grew and began to host community events, the leadership also began to make public criticisms of the direction of AW, particularly aimed at the owner for allowing the platform to stagnate. By this point, the residents of Fantasia became more aware of Virtual Paradise and its capabilities as a platform, prompting some to explore the idea of expanding XR into VP. The Victoria Colony was never intended to be a proper city, and was treated more of an experiment in testing out VP's building capabilities. It was not until tensions boiled to a head that the owner of AWI would disable the account of Fantasia's mayor, The Courier, which forced most of the Xennan building group over to VP. Victoria would declare itself as an independent city-state, operating in the same fashion as the Xennan project.

===From Growing Pains to Major Power (2015-2017)===
Victoria itself would not find much love in Virtual Paradise starting off; largely due in part towards its choice of location, steadfast independence from most infrastructure within Blizzard, and most importantly, its building style being in direct contrast to much of the rest of Blizzard. Victoria would not be taken seriously at all until the migration of Optimum into VP, who laid the first initial builds (mainly ports of older Fantasia and Phoenix City builds) in the town. In order to expand, the Victorian leadership would encourage AW citizens to migrate to VP, primarily those who were experienced builders. This was met with mixed results, but Victoria and her efforts of encouraging immigration into VP would nevertheless bring people such as GSK, Tardy, SirGreendown, and Optimum into the platform.

Of much larger issue was its relationship with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] and her associated cities, which Victoria found herself in direct competition with. The city of Victoria would heavily push its national project, the Republic of Victoria, as an alternative to the long-standing kingdom. This became complete with its own version of a parliament, the Peerage of Victoria, which was treated as a shot against the Parliament as it was seen by many to be the de-facto meeting venue for the VP community at the time. Peers were often the major builders within the city itself who de-facto controlled large chunks of metropolitan Vicky territory, which was meant to reward and encourage retention of builders exclusively to the city, mainly to no avail. In August 2016, tensions would come to a head as Victoria would be the main force alongside [[Summerville]] and the [[Lemerican Federation]] in protesting the parliament system on the VP Facebook group, jointly accusing the Parliament of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. After solutions were reached, drama flared again the following day until the existing parliament including Palmshire itself was dissolved by Legion. The Lemerican Federation also collapsed due to the departure of KoL, leaving Victoria & Summerville the only active communities for a long period of time.

Victoria's national government would be dissolved shortly after Palmshire's own government collapsed by January 2017, but the city itself remained an active force and quickly reformed its own government in the wake of community anarchy in VP. Neighboring New Beachfield and Victoria would merge together, briefly forming the city of New Atlanta until August 2017, when the city of NB changed hands back to Cypress and became independent once more. Cannaville would also become closely tied to developments in the city due to its proximity to Vicky.
===From Decline to Contemporary Victoria (2018 to Present)===
The dissolution of Victoria as a national project would ultimately result in the birth of the [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities]], which was meant to replace the influence of nation roleplay within Blizzard and encourage cooperation among individual cities. However, the Commonwealth would not be formally ratified nor have a proper government for five years, leaving it to also be abandoned for the time being as a serious project. The city would also remain stagnant or borderline dead as other communities like Summerville became the main focus of development until the early 2020s. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, restored interest among the wider community in Virtual Paradise became a factor in the revitalization of specific areas, including Vicky.

2023 was a particularly noteworthy time in Victorian history, and arguably the beginning of a new golden age for the city. In March 2023, the city of Cannaville would formally merge with Victoria, and individuals such as RyanLion & Zezima would create their own villages/towns within Victorian land by following April, which led to the need to reorganize the city government into a system of counties. Canna County, Ryan County, Sparta County & Victoria County would be created during this time period, largely containing the territorial claims of each section of the Victorian metropolitan area. In mid-April 2023, the city of New Beachfield would formally rejoin Victoria with permission from Cypress, becoming New Beachfield County and Victoria's fifth county. Concurrently, the Commonwealth would also be resurrected, encouraging more collaboration between all communities in Blizzard including Victoria's new counties.

Due to the hosting of the 2024 Spring Awards, the cities of [[Altes Antiguo]] and Victoria collaborated in creating a shared underground transportation network as well as setting the future stage for a monorail system.

==City Government==
The city of Victoria is organized as a council-manager government led by an city council & mayor. The city council functions as both the municipal government as well as the government of the wider [[Victoria|region of Victoria]], a decentralized grouping of multiple counties that share power with each other, in which the city council is then referred to as the Peerage of Victoria. The mayor is the prime leader of the city and can override peers, but peers usually have a large degree of freedom in operation. Peers are also the leaders of individual cities that participate within the region of Victoria, and have the option to withdraw at any moment.

The current peers of the city thus are as follows:
*The Courier
*deathofashes99
*Ry
*Zezima
*Cypress

Victoria

2024-10-13T20:37:45Z

The Courier: peer leadership changes, refreshed names, cannaville update

{{Nation
|image=Victoria_flag.png
|tagline=
|leaders='''Senior Peers of Victoria'''
*The Courier
*Ry
*deathofashes99
*Zezima
*Cypress
|founded=*2015
|government=Metropolitan region operating as a federation of cities.
|members=See below.
|vps=[https://vp.mrw.im/victoria https://vp.mrw.im/victoria]
}}
'''Victoria''' is a large area in Northern Blizzard that borders [[New Cypress Hollow]] and [[Downtown Blizzard]]. From 2015 to 2023, this area of Blizzard was under control of the wider '''Victorian Republic''', an initial alternative to the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] that dominated other developed areas of the world. In 2024, Victoria remains as a cultural, metropolitan federation of communities in Northern Blizzard.
==History==
===Republican Victoria (2015-2023)===
The city of Victoria was created in 2015 after declaring it's independence from the AW-based XR, a similar union of cities and worlds. As much of the essential government moved over from AW to VP, Victoria would become the seat of power for the new Victorian Republic by 2016, which laid claim to a significant chunk of Northern Blizzard that was not taken by existing projects. An immediate issue at the time was Victoria simply being new & not taken seriously by the community. Builders usually chose to work on established projects, particularly those tied to communities affiliated with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], which acted as the de-facto community government for Blizzard. Victoria had to rely entirely on bringing over newer people from AW via aggressive advertising, notably individuals such as OptimumPx & GSK who would proceed to do their own things in the long-term.

Cannaville would be created in late 2016, becoming one of the first city projects to openly declare an affiliation with Victoria over Palmshire. This would lead to Victoria itself ceasing any discussion about merging with the rest of Blizzard, choosing to pursue its own agenda. Around the same time, Victoria would spearhead conversations within the larger community via the VP Facebook group alongside [[Summerville]], jointly accusing the Parliament of Palmshire of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. This essentially ensured the collapse of Palmshire & its government, as well as that of the [[Lemerican Federation]] due to community fallout, leaving Victoria as the only "national government" operational in Blizzard & her capital being one of only two operational cities (the other being Summerville) for a long period of time.

Eventually, advanced notice of Vinesauce coming to visit VP by 2017 would unite all of VP towards putting aside prior drama & trying to fix up the world. Victoria by this point still nominally had a republic, but it was essentially on life-support and only Victoria proper was still an actively maintained city, just barely. Fallout from the Vinesauce visit further outraged the VP community at large, and functionally put many projects including Vicky in limbo. It would not be until the COVID-19 pandemic that a resurgence in interest took VP by storm and resurrected certain projects such as Vicky. By 2022, the Victorian Republic was formally dissolved & the capital itself was again placed in maintenance mode.

===Dissolution of the Republic & Modern Victoria (2023-present)===
The Victorian Republic was dissolved by The Courier because it became untenable & increasingly outdated in a VP that no longer had such an emphasis on nation RP. The only other legitimate community in the republic apart from Victoria was Cannaville, which at the time was also seen as being abandoned by Zeke. However, fallout from changes in AW during early 2023 would spur another burst of interest in VP from outsiders & long-term members alike. Ironically, Cannaville would be revitalized shortly after the dissolution of the republic & play an additional major role in keeping the concept of Victoria as a idea alive. The suburbs of Altes Antiguo & Sparta would also be shortly created around the immediate vicinity of Victoria as well as the second merger of New Beachfield with Vicky, leading to a federation of autonomous communities operating under the banner of a new Victoria.

Cannaville was shortly suspended from participating within the government of Victoria in October 2024, due to the expulsion of Zeke from the Virtual Paradise community. It was quickly readmitted after deathofashes99 was sworn in as the new peer leader of Cannaville, ending that community's suspension.

==Government==
The region of Victoria is largely a grouping of federated counties. All of these counties agree to acknowledge that they are apart of the nation of Victoria, although they have a high degree of autonomy in how they operate their individual affairs:
*[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]] (Victoria County), which is also the recognized capital of the region.
*[[Sparta]] (Sparta County)
*[[Cannaville]] (Canna County)
*[[Altes Antiguo]] (Ryan County)
*[[New Beachfield]] (New Beachfield County)

Each county is represented by a Senior Peer, the acknowledged leader of a county, and agrees to collaborate with neighboring other counties towards building up the region of Victoria. These peers can appoint Junior Peers which are recognized city government officials. All are members of the government, known as the Peerage of Victoria, and may be called upon to participate within meetings pertaining to matters involving the region at the request of a Senior Peer.

As of October 2024, the Peerage of Victoria consisted of the following members:
*Victoria was represented by '''The Courier''' as a Senior Peer, with '''OptimumPx''' as a Junior Peer.
*Altes Antiguo was represented by '''Ry''' as a Senior Peer.
*Sparta was represented by '''Zezima''' as a Senior Peer.
*Cannaville was represented by '''deathofashes99''' as a Senior Peer, with '''graystripe''' & '''Demon Dogg''' as Junior Peers.
*New Beachfield was represented by '''Cypress''' as a Senior Peer.
[[Category:Victoria]]

Cannaville

2024-10-13T20:34:12Z

The Courier: leadership changes

{{City
|image=Cannaville.jpg
|leaders=*deathofashes99
|running={{yes}}
|founded=2016
|nation=*[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]]
*Commonwealth of Independent Cities (present)
|vps=[https://vp.mrw.im/cannaville/ https://vp.mrw.im/cannaville/]
}}
'''Cannaville''' is an associated suburb within [[Victoria (city)|Victoria]] and the county seat for Canna County as of 2023. It is the second largest area within the Greater Victoria metropolitan area. Prior to 2023, it was an independent city in [[Blizzard]].
==Overview==
Founded by Zeke & deathofashes99 in December 2016, Cannaville obtained its name from the vast amounts of cannabis grown and researched there. Cannaville is considered a heavily restricted area for role-playing purposes, however is open for sightseeing only to the public. Cannaville was mainly built by Zeke himself. Cannaville is a coexistent community, meaning all views and walks of life are accepted there, and free speech is enforced at all times. Cannaville features a Wiccan temple, as its founder Zeke is of Wiccan belief.

Cannaville borders the cities of Victoria & Sparta, acting as a suburb of the Victorian metropolitan area. Prior to its merger with Victoria in 2023, Cannaville was a closely associated member of the former Victorian Republic despite having left and rejoined it multiple times, often in protest against the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]]. In 2023, Cannaville formally was annexed by the city of Victoria, ending its direct independence and becoming part of the Victoria Region as Canna County, with the city itself being placed under joint control of The Courier & Zeke.

In 2024, the local city government was swiftly dissolved by Victoria and placed under the new leadership of deathofashes99, after considerable community outrage resulted in the expulsion of Zeke from Virtual Paradise.

Victoria (city)

2024-08-05T12:09:54Z

The Courier: Updated to include new development updates, name change of a community leader.

{{City
|image=Victoria city.png
|leaders=*'''Mayor:''' The Courier
*'''County Peers:''' Courier, RyLy, Zeke, Zezima, Cypress
|running={{yes}}
|founded=2015
|nation=*[[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|The Commonwealth]]
*[[Victoria|Region of Victoria]]
|vps=[https://vp.mrw.im/victoria/ https://vp.mrw.im/victoria/]
}}
'''Victoria''', unofficially also known as '''Vicky''' is a city in [[Blizzard]]. Started in 2015 as an experimental offshoot of a larger building community in Active Worlds, the city of Victoria became a proper independent project in the aftermath of the city's main leaders being forcibly exiled onto Virtual Paradise due to larger community drama in AW. Victoria itself is notable for having inspired later cities as well as having brought people over who would become respected as master builders within the VP community at large.

Victoria has played the role of capital to the former Xennan Republic, the Victorian Republic, and the provisional seat of government for the [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|Commonwealth]]. Victoria is also the central flagship city within the overall '''region of [[Victoria]]''', an wider area that includes Cannaville, New Beachfield & Sparta as associated suburbs and counties of Vicky.
==History==
===Beginnings===
[[File:Early vicky.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Vicky in 2015]]
In 2015, citizens of Alphaworld began work on a new city called Fantasia. The city became a boom-town for residents that continued to make use of the platform, and it had attracted builders such as OptimumPx and KoL to come together and form a unique building group called the Xennan Republic. As the community grew and began to host community events, the leadership also began to make public criticisms of the direction of AW, particularly aimed at the owner for allowing the platform to stagnate. By this point, the residents of Fantasia became more aware of Virtual Paradise and its capabilities as a platform, prompting some to explore the idea of expanding XR into VP. The Victoria Colony was never intended to be a proper city, and was treated more of an experiment in testing out VP's building capabilities. It was not until tensions boiled to a head that the owner of AWI would disable the account of Fantasia's mayor, The Courier, which forced most of the Xennan building group over to VP. Victoria would declare itself as an independent city-state, operating in the same fashion as the Xennan project.

===From Growing Pains to Major Power (2015-2017)===
Victoria itself would not find much love in Virtual Paradise starting off; largely due in part towards its choice of location, steadfast independence from most infrastructure within Blizzard, and most importantly, its building style being in direct contrast to much of the rest of Blizzard. Victoria would not be taken seriously at all until the migration of Optimum into VP, who laid the first initial builds (mainly ports of older Fantasia and Phoenix City builds) in the town. In order to expand, the Victorian leadership would encourage AW citizens to migrate to VP, primarily those who were experienced builders. This was met with mixed results, but Victoria and her efforts of encouraging immigration into VP would nevertheless bring people such as GSK, Tardy, SirGreendown, and Optimum into the platform.

Of much larger issue was its relationship with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] and her associated cities, which Victoria found herself in direct competition with. The city of Victoria would heavily push its national project, the Republic of Victoria, as an alternative to the long-standing kingdom. This became complete with its own version of a parliament, the Peerage of Victoria, which was treated as a shot against the Parliament as it was seen by many to be the de-facto meeting venue for the VP community at the time. Peers were often the major builders within the city itself who de-facto controlled large chunks of metropolitan Vicky territory, which was meant to reward and encourage retention of builders exclusively to the city, mainly to no avail. In August 2016, tensions would come to a head as Victoria would be the main force alongside [[Summerville]] and the [[Lemerican Federation]] in protesting the parliament system on the VP Facebook group, jointly accusing the Parliament of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. After solutions were reached, drama flared again the following day until the existing parliament including Palmshire itself was dissolved by Legion. The Lemerican Federation also collapsed due to the departure of KoL, leaving Victoria & Summerville the only active communities for a long period of time.

Victoria's national government would be dissolved shortly after Palmshire's own government collapsed by January 2017, but the city itself remained an active force and quickly reformed its own government in the wake of community anarchy in VP. Neighboring New Beachfield and Victoria would merge together, briefly forming the city of New Atlanta until August 2017, when the city of NB changed hands back to Cypress and became independent once more. Cannaville would also become closely tied to developments in the city due to its proximity to Vicky.
===From Decline to Contemporary Victoria (2018 to Present)===
The dissolution of Victoria as a national project would ultimately result in the birth of the [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities]], which was meant to replace the influence of nation roleplay within Blizzard and encourage cooperation among individual cities. However, the Commonwealth would not be formally ratified nor have a proper government for five years, leaving it to also be abandoned for the time being as a serious project. The city would also remain stagnant or borderline dead as other communities like Summerville became the main focus of development until the early 2020s. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, restored interest among the wider community in Virtual Paradise became a factor in the revitalization of specific areas, including Vicky.

2023 was a particularly noteworthy time in Victorian history, and arguably the beginning of a new golden age for the city. In March 2023, the city of Cannaville would formally merge with Victoria, and individuals such as RyanLion & Zezima would create their own villages/towns within Victorian land by following April, which led to the need to reorganize the city government into a system of counties. Canna County, Ryan County, Sparta County & Victoria County would be created during this time period, largely containing the territorial claims of each section of the Victorian metropolitan area. In mid-April 2023, the city of New Beachfield would formally rejoin Victoria with permission from Cypress, becoming New Beachfield County and Victoria's fifth county. Concurrently, the Commonwealth would also be resurrected, encouraging more collaboration between all communities in Blizzard including Victoria's new counties.

Due to the hosting of the 2024 Spring Awards, the cities of [[Altes Antiguo]] and Victoria collaborated in creating a shared underground transportation network as well as setting the future stage for a monorail system.

==City Government==
The city of Victoria is organized as a council-manager government led by an city council & mayor. The city council functions as both the municipal government as well as the government of the wider [[Victoria|region of Victoria]], a decentralized grouping of multiple counties that share power with each other, in which the city council is then referred to as the Peerage of Victoria. The mayor is the prime leader of the city and can override peers, but peers usually have a large degree of freedom in operation. Peers are also the leaders of individual cities that participate within the region of Victoria, and have the option to withdraw at any moment.

The current peers of the city thus are as follows:
*The Courier
*Tardyllamma
*Ry
*Zezima
*Cypress

Spring Awards

2024-02-03T14:45:40Z

The Courier: /* Town Knockouts */

Spring Awards

2024-02-03T14:44:02Z

The Courier: /* 2024 Spring Awards */ adding in town & build brackets

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2023, the 2024 Spring Awards are currently planned to be underway later on with a date to be determined after bids.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
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!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (won, but overturned)''
|-
|''Cannaville''
|''3'' (backup bid, later turned down)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|'''Altes Antiguo'''
|'''1''' (backup bid)
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}
===Town Knockouts===
The top bracket was dominated by cities within the Victoria region (with the exception of Lynnfield), but Altes Antiguo would end up surprising everyone in the quarterfinals by upsetting the presumed power of LF by 2 votes. Victoria would make a clean sweep against its neighbor Sparta with 8 votes. The bottom half of the bracket housed the defending champions of the 2018 Awards, Summerville, as well as newcomer Pine County. Summerville would make a clean sweep against Cannaville by 8 votes, while Pine County largely also dominated its competition in the quarterfinals. Of more particular interest to the community was the semi-finals, as the remaining four cities (two of them having won the award previously) all had significant development made to them since 2018. Victoria and Altes Antiguo would remain tied for a large chunk of the semifinals until the last day when Victoria got a one vote edge, sending Vicky to her second appearance in the Town finals. Pine County made clean work of Summerville, sending the county to its first ever appearance. It is the first time a newcomer city (Pine County) has made an appearance to the final and the first time that a prior winner (Victoria) has the chance to win another title.
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===Build Knockouts===
Test.
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Spring Awards

2024-01-20T19:34:18Z

The Courier:

Victoria

2024-01-04T18:57:14Z

The Courier:

{{Nation
|image=Victoria_flag.png
|tagline=
|leaders='''Senior Peers of Victoria'''
*The Courier
*Ry
*Zeke
*Zezima
*Sarah
|founded=*2015
|government=Metropolitan region operating as a federation of cities.
|members=See below.
}}
'''Victoria''' is a large area in Northern Blizzard that borders [[New Cypress Hollow]] and [[Downtown Blizzard]]. From 2015 to 2023, this area of Blizzard was under control of the wider '''Victorian Republic''', an initial alternative to the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] that dominated other developed areas of the world. In 2024, Victoria remains as a cultural, metropolitan federation of communities in Northern Blizzard.
==History==
===Republican Victoria (2015-2023)===
The city of Victoria was created in 2015 after declaring it's independence from the AW-based XR, a similar union of cities and worlds. As much of the essential government moved over from AW to VP, Victoria would become the seat of power for the new Victorian Republic by 2016, which laid claim to a significant chunk of Northern Blizzard that was not taken by existing projects. An immediate issue at the time was Victoria simply being new & not taken seriously by the community. Builders usually chose to work on established projects, particularly those tied to communities affiliated with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], which acted as the de-facto community government for Blizzard. Victoria had to rely entirely on bringing over newer people from AW via aggressive advertising, notably individuals such as OptimumPx & GSK who would proceed to do their own things in the long-term.

Cannaville would be created in late 2016, becoming one of the first city projects to openly declare an affiliation with Victoria over Palmshire. This would lead to Victoria itself ceasing any discussion about merging with the rest of Blizzard, choosing to pursue its own agenda. Around the same time, Victoria would spearhead conversations within the larger community via the VP Facebook group alongside [[Summerville]], jointly accusing the Parliament of Palmshire of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. This essentially ensured the collapse of Palmshire & its government, as well as that of the [[Lemerican Federation]] due to community fallout, leaving Victoria as the only "national government" operational in Blizzard & her capital being one of only two operational cities (the other being Summerville) for a long period of time.

Eventually, advanced notice of Vinesauce coming to visit VP by 2017 would unite all of VP towards putting aside prior drama & trying to fix up the world. Victoria by this point still nominally had a republic, but it was essentially on life-support and only Victoria proper was still an actively maintained city, just barely. Fallout from the Vinesauce visit further outraged the VP community at large, and functionally put many projects including Vicky in limbo. It would not be until the COVID-19 pandemic that a resurgence in interest took VP by storm and resurrected certain projects such as Vicky. By 2022, the Victorian Republic was formally dissolved & the capital itself was again placed in maintenance mode.

===Dissolution of the Republic & Modern Victoria (2023-present)===
The Victorian Republic was dissolved by The Courier because it became untenable & increasingly outdated in a VP that no longer had such an emphasis on nation RP. The only other legitimate community in the republic apart from Victoria was Cannaville, which at the time was also seen as being abandoned by Zeke. However, fallout from changes in AW during early 2023 would spur another burst of interest in VP from outsiders & long-term members alike. Ironically, Cannaville would be revitalized shortly after the dissolution of the republic & play an additional major role in keeping the concept of Victoria as a idea alive. The suburbs of Altes Antiguo & Sparta would also be shortly created around the immediate vicinity of Victoria as well as the second merger of New Beachfield with Vicky, leading to a federation of autonomous communities operating under the banner of a new Victoria.
==Government==
The region of Victoria is largely a grouping of federated counties. All of these counties agree to acknowledge that they are apart of the nation of Victoria, although they have a high degree of autonomy in how they operate their individual affairs:
*[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]] (Victoria County), which is also the recognized capital of the region.
*[[Sparta]] (Sparta County)
*[[Cannaville]] (Canna County)
*[[Altes Antiguo]] (Ryan County)
*[[New Beachfield]] (New Beachfield County)

Each county is represented by a Senior Peer, the acknowledged leader of a county, and agrees to collaborate with neighboring other counties towards building up the region of Victoria. These peers can appoint Junior Peers which are recognized city government officials. All are members of the government, known as the Peerage of Victoria, and may be called upon to participate within meetings pertaining to matters involving the region at the request of a Senior Peer.

As of June 2023, the Peerage of Victoria consisted of the following members:
*Victoria was represented by '''The Courier''' as a Senior Peer, with '''OptimumPx''' as a Junior Peer.
*Altes Antiguo was represented by '''Ry''' as a Senior Peer.
*Sparta was represented by '''Zezima''' as a Senior Peer.
*Cannaville was represented by '''Zeke''' as a Senior Peer, with '''graystripe''' & '''Demon Dogg''' as Junior Peers.
*New Beachfield was represented by '''Sarah''' as a Senior Peer.
[[Category:Victoria]]

Main Page/section/Programmers

2024-01-04T18:43:22Z

The Courier: /* Projects */ adding ceres

==== Programmers ====
* '''[[Getting started/SDK|Get started with bot programming]]'''
* '''SDK''': [[SDK|C++]] {{*}} [[.NET SDK|.NET]] <sup>C#, F#, VB, etc.</sup>
* [http://dev.virtualparadise.org/ Developer website]

===== Projects =====
* '''[[Block Party]]''' - Live service multiplayer party game
* '''[[Summerville]]''' - One of the most active and longest lasting cities in [[Blizzard]]
* '''[[Ceres]]''' - An open source terrain management bot for VP.
* '''[[Tower of Terror]]''' - Series of thrill rides that push the limits of the Virtual Paradise platform

Ceres

2024-01-04T18:42:35Z

The Courier: Created page with "{| id="toc" style="width:25em; margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; float:right; -moz-border-radius:12px" !align="center" bgcolor="55bbff" colspan="3"|Ceres |- !align="center" colspan="3"|250px |- !align="center" bgcolor="77ddff" colspan="3"|Terrain Management Bot |- !align="left" valign="top"|Creator(s) |align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|Dr. Squaliboont |- !align="left" valign="top"|Initial release |align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|2023 |- !align="left" va..."

{| id="toc" style="width:25em; margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; float:right; -moz-border-radius:12px"
!align="center" bgcolor="55bbff" colspan="3"|Ceres
|-
!align="center" colspan="3"|[[Image:Ceres.png|250px]]
|-
!align="center" bgcolor="77ddff" colspan="3"|Terrain Management Bot
|-
!align="left" valign="top"|Creator(s)
|align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|Dr. Squaliboont
|-
!align="left" valign="top"|Initial release
|align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|2023
|-
!align="left" valign="top"|Development status
|align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|Active
|-
!align="left" valign="top"|Type
|align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|[[Bots|Bot]]
|-
!align="left" valign="top"|License
|align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|Freeware
|-
!align="left" valign="top"|Website
|align="left" colspan="2" valign="top"|[http://squailboont.info/ceres/download.html Download here]
|-
|colspan="3"|
|}
'''Ceres''' is a terrain-editor which allows members of Virtual Paradise to edit terrain around their buildings in an easier manner than the built-in terrain interface. Ceres is developed by Dr. Squaliboont, and the initial basis of the bot is based partly around the original Demeter project, a similar bot meant for usage in Active Worlds. Ceres allows the editing of terrain by using terrain markers, which are special objects placed directly on the terrain cell boundaries. Using terrain markers allows terrain to be easily copied with bots. Mass-editing of multiple terrain cells can be quickly achieved using the Ctrl-Insert shortcut and by selecting multiple terrain markers to update.
==External Links==
*[http://squailboont.info/ceres/download.html Download here]
*[https://bitbucket.org/squailboont/vpterrainmanager/src/trunk/ Ceres source code]

File:Ceres.png

2024-01-04T18:35:35Z

The Courier:

Spring Awards

2024-01-03T12:22:35Z

The Courier: /* 2024 Spring Awards */

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2023, the 2024 Spring Awards are currently planned to be underway later on with a date to be determined after bids.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
[[File:Sa venue 2024.png|thumb|right|Altes Antiguo would eventually become the final venue for the 2024 Awards.]]
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (overturned)''
|-
|'''Cannaville'''
|''3'' (winner)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|Altes Antiguo
|1
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}

File:Sa venue 2024.png

2024-01-03T12:21:11Z

The Courier:

Spring Awards

2023-12-30T00:01:04Z

The Courier: /* 2024 Spring Awards */

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2023, the 2024 Spring Awards are currently planned to be underway later on with a date to be determined after bids.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

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| RD1-seed2=
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| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Gabrielleville
| RD1-score3=1
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Victoria
| RD1-score4=14

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Summerville
| RD1-score5=11
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Phoenix City
| RD1-score6=3

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=New Huntington
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=New Cypress Hollow
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Lapis Vidrium
| RD2-score1=LOST
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=Victoria
| RD2-score2=WON

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Summerville
| RD2-score3=LOST
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=New Huntington
| RD2-score4=WON

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=New Huntington
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Victoria
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

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| RD1-team1=RyanLion
| RD1-score1=WON
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=Legion
| RD1-score2=LOST

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=The Courier
| RD1-score3=WON
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=trooper
| RD1-score4=LOST

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Edwin
| RD1-score5=WON
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Melody Minifig
| RD1-score6=LOST

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tom
| RD1-score7=LOST
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=GSK
| RD1-score8=WON

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=RyanLion
| RD2-score1=WON
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=The Courier
| RD2-score2=LOST

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Edwin
| RD2-score3=WON
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=GSK
| RD2-score4=LOST

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=RyanLion
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Edwin
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1=Rezdog
| RD1-score1=
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=New Rockford
| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Sunset Gland
| RD1-score3=
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Parliament Complex
| RD1-score4=

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Whalen International
| RD1-score5=
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Gov's Mansion
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Blizzard Road Network
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=Rezdog
| RD3-score1=WON
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
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| team-width=150px

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| RD1-score1=13
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=The Church
| RD1-score2=2

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=World Trade Center
| RD1-score3=12
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Eden Bar
| RD1-score4=3

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Victoria City Hall
| RD1-score5=14
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=PC Towers
| RD1-score6= 1

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tower of Terror
| RD1-score7=14
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Leo Interiors
| RD1-score8=1

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=World Trade Center
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Victoria City Hall
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=Tower of Terror
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=WTC
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=TOT
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===Venue Controversy===
Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made Cannaville the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards, however Zeke, the mayor of Cannaville, would also shortly withdraw his ability to host for life-related reasons, sending the awards back into chaos.

New Cypress Hollow, Sparta, and Altes Antiguo all offered to take up Cannaville's bid, but it would be decided by The Courier that Altes Antiguo would take over due to that city already establishing a venue with the interest of the awards in mind, hopefully ending the grand venue chaos for good.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (overturned)''
|-
|'''Cannaville'''
|''3'' (winner)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|Altes Antiguo
|1
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}

Spring Awards

2023-12-09T00:36:21Z

The Courier: /* 2024 Spring Awards */

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2023, the 2024 Spring Awards are currently planned to be underway later on with a date to be determined after bids.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

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| RD1-seed2=
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| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Gabrielleville
| RD1-score3=1
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Victoria
| RD1-score4=14

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Summerville
| RD1-score5=11
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Phoenix City
| RD1-score6=3

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=New Huntington
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=New Cypress Hollow
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Lapis Vidrium
| RD2-score1=LOST
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=Victoria
| RD2-score2=WON

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Summerville
| RD2-score3=LOST
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=New Huntington
| RD2-score4=WON

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=New Huntington
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Victoria
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

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| RD1-team1=RyanLion
| RD1-score1=WON
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=Legion
| RD1-score2=LOST

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=The Courier
| RD1-score3=WON
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=trooper
| RD1-score4=LOST

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Edwin
| RD1-score5=WON
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Melody Minifig
| RD1-score6=LOST

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tom
| RD1-score7=LOST
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=GSK
| RD1-score8=WON

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=RyanLion
| RD2-score1=WON
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=The Courier
| RD2-score2=LOST

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Edwin
| RD2-score3=WON
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=GSK
| RD2-score4=LOST

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=RyanLion
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Edwin
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

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| RD1-team1=Rezdog
| RD1-score1=
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=New Rockford
| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Sunset Gland
| RD1-score3=
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Parliament Complex
| RD1-score4=

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Whalen International
| RD1-score5=
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Gov's Mansion
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Blizzard Road Network
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=Rezdog
| RD3-score1=WON
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD1-score1=13
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=The Church
| RD1-score2=2

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=World Trade Center
| RD1-score3=12
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Eden Bar
| RD1-score4=3

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Victoria City Hall
| RD1-score5=14
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=PC Towers
| RD1-score6= 1

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tower of Terror
| RD1-score7=14
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Leo Interiors
| RD1-score8=1

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=World Trade Center
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Victoria City Hall
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=Tower of Terror
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=WTC
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=TOT
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway. Initially, the city of [[Pine County]] won the popular bid at 4 votes among a heavily divided contest, however the leaders of Pine County opted to back out of the bid and allow one of the runner-up communities to host instead due to that city's leadership having projected time constraints. The communities of [[Summerville]] & [[Cannaville]] made a quick agreement that Cannaville would be allowed to have the honor due to Summerville's prior hosting of the 2017 Awards. These series of events officially made '''Cannaville''' the fourth city to be given the honor of hosting the Spring Awards as of December 2023.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
''Although Pine County won the popular vote, Cannaville was given the bid due to discussions between PC & the runner-up communities. These votes are left recorded for the public record.''
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|''Pine County''
|''4 (overturned)''
|-
|'''Cannaville'''
|''3'' (winner)
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|Altes Antiguo
|1
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}

Spring Awards

2023-12-06T23:43:30Z

The Courier: /* 2024 Spring Awards bidding results */

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2023, the 2024 Spring Awards are currently planned to be underway later on with a date to be determined after bids.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD1-score5=
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| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

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===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
The following cities were determined by the event organizer to be active enough to warrant inclusion into the bid poll. As of 12/6/2023, these are the current standings to be finalized by 12/7/2023.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|Pine County
|4
|-
|Cannaville
|3
|-
|Summerville
|3
|-
|NCH
|1
|-
|Altes Antiguo
|1
|-
|Sparta
|1
|-
|Lynnfield
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}

Timeline of Virtual Paradise

2023-12-04T22:29:50Z

The Courier: /* 2023 */

This is a '''timeline of Virtual Paradise history'''.

==2000s==
===2004===
===2005===
===2006===
===2007===
*03 July - Version 0.1.1
*23 August - Version 0.1.2
*16 September - Version 0.1.3
*23 November - Version 0.1.4

===2008===
*03 February - Version 0.1.5
*12 May - Version 0.2.1
*23 June - Version 0.2.2
*25 August - Version 0.2.3
*25 October - Version 0.2.4
*28 November - Version 0.2.5

===2009===
*09 February - Version 0.2.7
*29 March - Version 0.2.8
*30 November - Version 0.2.10
*14 December - Version 0.2.11
*20 December - Version 0.2.12
*28 December - Version 0.2.13

==2010s==
===2010===
*03 July - Version 0.3.1
*04 July - Version 0.3.2
*15 July - Version 0.3.3
*21 July - Version 0.3.4
*24 August - Version 0.3.5
*08 September - Version 0.3.6
*24 September - Version 0.3.7
*04 October - Version 0.3.8
*25 October - Version 0.3.9
*05 November - Version 0.3.10
*20 November - Version 0.3.11
*11 December - Version 0.3.12
*23 December - Version 0.3.13

===2011===
*03 January - Version 0.3.14
*06 February - Version 0.3.15
*13 March - Version 0.3.16
*16 April - Version 0.3.17
*16 June - Version 0.3.18
*06 September - Version 0.3.19

===2012===
*03 January - Version 0.3.20
*04 March - Version 0.3.21
*08 July - '''New citizen''': [[User:Legion|Legion]] immigrated.
*18 July - Version 0.3.22
*05 August - Version 0.3.23
*06 September - Version 0.3.24
*21 September - '''New citizen''': [[User:Nibbles|Nibbles]] immigrated.
*24 September - '''New citizen''': [[User:GC|GC]] immigrated.
*26 September - Version 0.3.25
*10 October - Version 0.3.26
*21 October - Version 0.3.27
*24 October - ''' New world''': [[Mars]] opened.
*26 October - ''' New world''': [[Blizzard]] opened.
*27 October - Version 0.3.28
*09 November - Virtual Paradise's first object yard built in Blizzard by [[User: Nibbles|Nibbles]]
*11 November - Version 0.3.29: [[Teleportxyz]] command added, etc.
*11 November - '''New build''': [[Grand Central Station]] opened in Blizzard.
*11 November - Virtual Paradise's first town, [[PiPoTown]], founded by [[User:masterpipo|masterpipo]] in Blizzard.
*12 November - '''New town''': [[New Cypress Hollow]] founded by [[User:GC|GC]] in Blizzard.
*12 November - '''New town''': [[Pinecrest]] founded by [[User:Cloggedone|Cloggedone]] and [[User:Tom|Tom]]
*24 November - Version 0.3.30: Support for 16-bit texture added, several bug fixes.

=== 2013 ===
*29 April - Blizzard GZ 2.0 built
*April 2013 - Summerville established in Blizzard

=== 2014 ===
*1 February - Version 0.3.39: Name command and support for name= arguments in action commands, sign command now can take text via action line
*24 March - Version 0.3.40: Map view, RWX extension for specular and normal maps

=== 2015 ===
*September 2015- '''New town''': The city of [[Victoria]] is established by [[User:KoL|KoL]], [[User:OptimumPx|OptimumPx]] & [[User:The Courier|The Courier]] as an extension of the AW-based Xenna Republic.
*December 2015 - Victoria declares its independence from Fantasia & the rest of the Xenna Republic, becoming an fully independent project.

=== 2016 ===
*January 2016 - The [[Victoria|Victorian Republic]], headquartered in Victoria, is born in protest against the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]]'s influence in Blizzard.
*March 2016 - [[Phoenix City]], led by COFGamesYT/SirGreendown, migrates from AWTeen to Blizzard. It shortly joins the fledgling Victorian Republic as the second state in that country.
*April 2016 - The first [[Spring Awards]] are created in response to AW's efforts to make a new version of the CY Awards, the OMG! Awards. It is hosted in the city of Victoria.
*July 2016 - Work on Summerville continued again.
*August 2016 - [[Cannaville]] is created by [[User:Tardyllamma|Tardyllamma]]. The cities of Victoria, Rezdog, and Summerville also launch a protest on the Virtual Paradise Facebook group over the influence of the [[Parliament of Palmshire]] on the community governance of Blizzard, leading to large-scale destabilizing of the community in that world.
*December 2016 - Cannaville joins the Victorian Republic as its third VP-based state.

=== 2017 ===
*January 2017 - The 2017 Spring Awards are announced with Summerville becoming the second city to host them.
*January 2017 - The [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] formally dissolves as a group, leading to the mass independence of cities such as New Cypress Hollow, New Huntington, Downtown Blizzard, New Beachfield, and New Rockford. The [[Lemerican Federation]] quickly dissolves shortly afterwards in the ongoing chaos. Victoria remains the only functional community nation going forward, with Summerville becoming the only other active city in Blizzard with active development for a period of time. The VP community is told by Hitomi Fujiko that a popular streamer, Vinesauce, is planning to visit VP in the future, leading the community to hastily prepare sections of Blizzard. Hitomi herself is made famous from a 2016 stream of ActiveWorlds by the same individual.
*March 2017 - Vinesauce visits Virtual Paradise unexpectedly, browsing areas such as [[Chafeeville]] and [[Aurora]], as well as exposing the platform at large to thousands of viewers. The stream is bugged due to the usage of an ancient version of VP, leaving segments dysfunctional. Fallout in the community decreases activity in Blizzard significantly
*August 2017 - The city of [[Chimerock]] is created by Rai.

=== 2018 ===
*January 2018 - The 2018 Spring Awards are announced with New Huntington becoming the third city to host them.
*January 2018 - The cities of Victoria, Cannaville & Phoenix City all unilaterally withdraw from the Victorian Republic, de-facto dissolving the last major national government in Blizzard.
*February 2018 - The birth of the original [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities]] in Chimerock. All major cities join the organization in response to the aftermath of Vinesauce & Vicky, and elect Rai as its first General-Secretary, but the original organization does not have an agreed upon government, leaving the organization mostly powerless.
*March 2018 - Work on the redesigned Blizzard LZ begins, leaving Summerville as the temporary (later permanent LZ).

=== 2019 ===
*January 2019 - The 2019 Spring Awards are projected to take place but are cancelled due to little to no activity in VP. NCH would have been the fourth city to host them due to winning the election bid.

=== 2020 ===
*March 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic takes the world by storm, leading to a sudden increase in interest again in Virtual Paradise from the community, including resurrections of several projects.

=== 2021 ===

=== 2022 ===
*July 2022 - The city of New Huntington is renamed Lynnfield by cassadaga & graystripe.
*December 2022 - Talks about a sequel world to Blizzard are discussed among the major cities and the community members of VP.

=== 2023 ===
*January - Talks regarding the sequel to Blizzard are put on hold due to disagreements between the major cities.
*March - Changes in Active Worlds such as paying to build leads to a series of rejuvenated interest in Virtual Paradise.
*March & April - Creation of the [[Victoria|Victorian Regional Government]], a replacement to the old Victorian Republic, as an effort to create a large-scale metropolitan region in Northern Blizzard
**March - Victoria joins the regional government.
**March - Cannaville joins the regional government.
**March - [[Altes Antiguo]] is created as a new city, and swiftly joins the regional government.
**March - [[Sparta]] is created as a new city, and swiftly joins the regional government.
**April - [[New Beachfield]] joins the regional government.
**April - [[New Cypress Hollow]] is given an offer to join the regional government, but declines.
*December - The 2024 Spring Awards are announced.

[[Category:History]]

Spring Awards

2023-12-03T12:52:31Z

The Courier: the spring awards are BACK

The '''Spring Awards''' is an event in which members of the community are recognized for their contributions to Virtual Paradise. As of 2023, the 2024 Spring Awards are currently planned to be underway later on with a date to be determined after bids.
==History==
The origins of the Spring Awards date back to 2016, when tension between the AW and VP communities were at high points. The idea to host an awards show in a smaller community was originally suggested as a joke, as AW's regulars wanted to bring back the CY Awards, which could not happen due to inactivity. The Courier, over on VP, decided to create a knockout-style event that could compensate for VP's smaller base. The Spring Awards would also be hosted by one of VP's major cities as a home.
==2016 Spring Awards==
The '''City of [[Victoria]]''' laid host to the first Spring Awards, which was done in the format of a single-elimination tournament. First and second round votes were decided through Strawpoll, while the finals were decided via voting through Google Forms. Originally, there was going to be a fourth category for Best Town, but there were not enough nominations to warrant the inclusion.

In the field of Best User, newcomer RyanLion would steamroll the competition to the finals to beat Sarah, the underdog of that particular competition, due in part towards his contributions of building and activism within the community. Best Build would see drama as RichieG's long-lasting Church in New Cypress Hollow somehow avoided a presumed upset by a stunning recreation of Amsterdam by bnb. Meanwhile, OptimumPx's greatest work at the time, a recreation of LA's Town Hall, would find an easy path to the finals where it defeated yet another underdog in the competition that likely had no real business being in the running. Most Innovative Project would also become a de-facto award for "Best World" as the two worlds of [[VPTV]] and [[Vagus]] fought on the battleground of the finals, where VPTV would be annihilated by the up-start space RPG world.

Best Town was discontinued as a category in the interests of combating potential bias on the part of Victoria hosting the inaugural event as well as only three participants (Victoria, NCH, and NH) being nominated. It will be resumed in 2017 as a category.
===2016 Spring Awards bidding results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Victoria]]
|Unanimous (no other city bid)
|-
|}
===2016 Spring Awards results===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!Category
!Winner
!Runner Up
|-
|Best Community User
|RyanLion
|Sarah
|-
|Best Build
|OptimumPx's Town Hall
|RichieG's Church
|-
|Most Innovative Project
|[[Vagus]]
|VPTV
|-
|}

==2017 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA2017.png|thumb|right]]
Due to the success of the 2016 Spring Awards, the next SAs will happen later with nominations lasting from January 1st to the 15th, and voting to take place during a undetermined date. The event will be hosted by the '''city of [[Summerville]]''' after defeating [[New Huntington]] in a hosting bid by 7 voters against 6. Six categories were announced at 12/23/2016 on the Facebook group, with two returning categories and four new categories.
===2017 Spring Awards bidding results - 12/15/16 to 12/16/16===
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|[[Summerville]]
|7
|-
|[[New Huntington]]
|6
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|[[Phoenix City]]
|0
|-
|Gabrielleville
|0
|-
|}
===Best Town Knockouts===
On 12/26/2016, the eight towns ([[Summerville]] as host, [[Victoria]], [[Phoenix City]], Gabrielleville, NB, NCH, [[NH]], and Lapis) selected in the bracket were chosen due to their development, activity, and general impact within the world they resided. Five towns (Rezdog, New Ave, Panthera, Chaffeeville, Nineties Town) were disqualified due to either being joke towns, or were too underdeveloped to compete. [[Rezdog]] in particular was left out despite being the capital of the [[Lemerican Federation]] and having much more development, due to it's major inactivity and questionable future on the part of it's mayor. The five disqualified towns will compete in a separate, single poll to win the Participation Trophy.

At the start of the competition, Summerville and Victoria humiliated their opponents at the first day of voting, although Phoenix City had a close lead against Summerville in the initial minutes. Lapis Vidrium would continue on to face Victoria later in the start of the new year, eventually losing to Victoria which at this point was continuing merger discussions with New Beachfield, while the host city would lose to New Huntington. The two cities of NH and Victoria would duke it out in a close matchup between powers of central Blizzard, but it would end in a victory for the capital of the Victorian Republic on Feburary 2017.
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| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Gabrielleville
| RD1-score3=1
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Victoria
| RD1-score4=14

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Summerville
| RD1-score5=11
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Phoenix City
| RD1-score6=3

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=New Huntington
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=New Cypress Hollow
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Lapis Vidrium
| RD2-score1=LOST
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=Victoria
| RD2-score2=WON

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Summerville
| RD2-score3=LOST
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=New Huntington
| RD2-score4=WON

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=New Huntington
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Victoria
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Best Community Leader===
At the start of 2017, the category for Best Community Leader was given an official bracket due to multiple names getting repeated as well as filling in the minimum requirements.

The start of the competition would see tight races for everyone with the exception of Edwin, whom blown out his competition, Melody Minifig, and secured a semi-final spot. The Courier would fall to the defending champion of best user, RyanLion, while GSK would fall to Edwin. The battle between RyLy and Edwin wasn't even a close final, being one of the more lopsided final rounds of the entire knockouts. Edwin would win and get vengeance for his loss to Sarah in the last awards.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
| group1=
| group2=

| score-width=50px
| team-width=150px

| RD1-seed1=
| RD1-team1=RyanLion
| RD1-score1=WON
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=Legion
| RD1-score2=LOST

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=The Courier
| RD1-score3=WON
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=trooper
| RD1-score4=LOST

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Edwin
| RD1-score5=WON
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=Melody Minifig
| RD1-score6=LOST

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tom
| RD1-score7=LOST
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=GSK
| RD1-score8=WON

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=RyanLion
| RD2-score1=WON
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=The Courier
| RD2-score2=LOST

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Edwin
| RD2-score3=WON
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=GSK
| RD2-score4=LOST

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=RyanLion
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=Edwin
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}

===Unfinished Builds===
At Jan 12 2017, the category for Unfinished Builds was given an official bracket. Unfortunately, the results for the knockout were lost due to a crash, although the winner would ultimately be Rezdog. There was controversy in the inclusion of Ground Zero, which was undergoing massive renovation due to an impending visit from the popular streamer Vinesauce.
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| RD1-team1=Rezdog
| RD1-score1=
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=New Rockford
| RD1-score2=

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=Sunset Gland
| RD1-score3=
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Parliament Complex
| RD1-score4=

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Whalen International
| RD1-score5=
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=GZ
| RD1-score6=

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Gov's Mansion
| RD1-score7=
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Blizzard Road Network
| RD1-score8=

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=Rezdog
| RD3-score1=WON
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=
| RD3-score2=

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
===Best Build===
At Jan 14 2017, the category for Best Build was given an official bracket. Best Build became the first to announce a true semi-final matchup for all it's contestants as all had a dominating victory over the competition within the first day of voting. Best Build was the quickest of the categories to be given a finalist, resulting in the '''terrorist bowl''' between the Tower of Terror and the World Trade Center recreation (both being under minor construction at the time). The winner of the bowl was the Tower of Terror.
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| RD2=Semi-Finals
| RD3=Final
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| group2=

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| team-width=150px

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| RD1-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD1-score1=13
| RD1-seed2=
| RD1-team2=The Church
| RD1-score2=2

| RD1-seed3=
| RD1-team3=World Trade Center
| RD1-score3=12
| RD1-seed4=
| RD1-team4=Eden Bar
| RD1-score4=3

| RD1-seed5=
| RD1-team5=Victoria City Hall
| RD1-score5=14
| RD1-seed6=
| RD1-team6=PC Towers
| RD1-score6= 1

| RD1-seed7=
| RD1-team7=Tower of Terror
| RD1-score7=14
| RD1-seed8=
| RD1-team8=Leo Interiors
| RD1-score8=1

| RD2-seed1=
| RD2-team1=Summerville City Hall
| RD2-score1=
| RD2-seed2=
| RD2-team2=World Trade Center
| RD2-score2=

| RD2-seed3=
| RD2-team3=Victoria City Hall
| RD2-score3=
| RD2-seed4=
| RD2-team4=Tower of Terror
| RD2-score4=

| RD3-seed1=
| RD3-team1=WTC
| RD3-score1=LOST
| RD3-seed2=
| RD3-team2=TOT
| RD3-score2=WON

| RD3-seed3=
| RD3-team3=
| RD3-score3=
| RD3-seed4=
| RD3-team4=
| RD3-score4=
}}
==2018 Spring Awards==
[[File:SA18.png|thumb|right]]
The 2018 Awards were the first time that a single user, Graystripe, dominated every category. It was also the last time that [[Victoria]], [[Cannaville]], and [[Phoenix City]] would compete under the flag of the Victorian Republic, due to it's dissolution, although the three cities were still represented under the former Victorian banner.

[[Summerville]] ended up winning the award for '''best city'''.

Graystripe's House was the winner for '''best build'''.

The Builder's Supply Content Yard was the only category winner to not be exclusively Graystripe's, and was shared between Gray and ryanlennon as a '''joint project'''.

Graystripe was declared the winner for '''best community leader'''.
===2018 Spring Awards bid results===
The bidding for the 2018 Spring Awards began in 2017. As '''Summerville''' was the host of the previous competition, '''Victoria''' regained eligibility to run for bidding in the 2018 awards. '''[[Cannaville]]''' fully qualified as an established city to participate in the bidding process. The city of '''[[New Huntington]]''' was the host of the 2018 Spring Awards after winning a 7-1 bid.
{| border=2 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 style="border-collapse:collapse;"
!City
!Votes
|-
|New Huntington
|7
|-
|Gabrielleville
|1
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|}
==2019 Spring Awards==
The '''2019 Spring Awards''' were a planned event to be hosted by '''New Cypress Hollow''' but was cancelled by event organizers due to lack of activity in VP at the time. This is the only Spring Awards to never take place as planned.
==2024 Spring Awards==
The '''2024 Spring Awards''' were confirmed by The Courier to be under development with bid voting announced on 12/3/2023. This is the first time in six years since the 2018 Awards that an event was confirmed to be underway.
===2024 Spring Awards bidding results===
The following cities were determined by the event organizer to be active enough to warrant inclusion into the bid poll.
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!City
!Votes
|-
|Summerville
|0
|-
|Victoria
|0
|-
|NCH
|0
|-
|Cannaville
|0
|-
|Lynnfeld
|0
|-
|Pine County
|0
|-
|Sparta
|0
|-
|Altes Antiguo
|0
|-
|New Beachfield
|0
|-
|}

Timeline of Virtual Paradise

2023-11-24T14:19:16Z

The Courier: feel free to add anything else to this, this is all I remember.

This is a '''timeline of Virtual Paradise history'''.

==2000s==
===2004===
===2005===
===2006===
===2007===
*03 July - Version 0.1.1
*23 August - Version 0.1.2
*16 September - Version 0.1.3
*23 November - Version 0.1.4

===2008===
*03 February - Version 0.1.5
*12 May - Version 0.2.1
*23 June - Version 0.2.2
*25 August - Version 0.2.3
*25 October - Version 0.2.4
*28 November - Version 0.2.5

===2009===
*09 February - Version 0.2.7
*29 March - Version 0.2.8
*30 November - Version 0.2.10
*14 December - Version 0.2.11
*20 December - Version 0.2.12
*28 December - Version 0.2.13

==2010s==
===2010===
*03 July - Version 0.3.1
*04 July - Version 0.3.2
*15 July - Version 0.3.3
*21 July - Version 0.3.4
*24 August - Version 0.3.5
*08 September - Version 0.3.6
*24 September - Version 0.3.7
*04 October - Version 0.3.8
*25 October - Version 0.3.9
*05 November - Version 0.3.10
*20 November - Version 0.3.11
*11 December - Version 0.3.12
*23 December - Version 0.3.13

===2011===
*03 January - Version 0.3.14
*06 February - Version 0.3.15
*13 March - Version 0.3.16
*16 April - Version 0.3.17
*16 June - Version 0.3.18
*06 September - Version 0.3.19

===2012===
*03 January - Version 0.3.20
*04 March - Version 0.3.21
*08 July - '''New citizen''': [[User:Legion|Legion]] immigrated.
*18 July - Version 0.3.22
*05 August - Version 0.3.23
*06 September - Version 0.3.24
*21 September - '''New citizen''': [[User:Nibbles|Nibbles]] immigrated.
*24 September - '''New citizen''': [[User:GC|GC]] immigrated.
*26 September - Version 0.3.25
*10 October - Version 0.3.26
*21 October - Version 0.3.27
*24 October - ''' New world''': [[Mars]] opened.
*26 October - ''' New world''': [[Blizzard]] opened.
*27 October - Version 0.3.28
*09 November - Virtual Paradise's first object yard built in Blizzard by [[User: Nibbles|Nibbles]]
*11 November - Version 0.3.29: [[Teleportxyz]] command added, etc.
*11 November - '''New build''': [[Grand Central Station]] opened in Blizzard.
*11 November - Virtual Paradise's first town, [[PiPoTown]], founded by [[User:masterpipo|masterpipo]] in Blizzard.
*12 November - '''New town''': [[New Cypress Hollow]] founded by [[User:GC|GC]] in Blizzard.
*12 November - '''New town''': [[Pinecrest]] founded by [[User:Cloggedone|Cloggedone]] and [[User:Tom|Tom]]
*24 November - Version 0.3.30: Support for 16-bit texture added, several bug fixes.

=== 2013 ===
*29 April - Blizzard GZ 2.0 built

=== 2014 ===
*1 February - Version 0.3.39: Name command and support for name= arguments in action commands, sign command now can take text via action line
*24 March - Version 0.3.40: Map view, RWX extension for specular and normal maps

=== 2015 ===
*September 2015- '''New town''': The city of [[Victoria]] is established by [[User:KoL|KoL]], [[User:OptimumPx|OptimumPx]] & [[User:The Courier|The Courier]] as an extension of the AW-based Xenna Republic.
*December 2015 - Victoria declares its independence from Fantasia & the rest of the Xenna Republic, becoming an fully independent project.

=== 2016 ===
*January 2016 - The [[Victoria|Victorian Republic]], headquartered in Victoria, is born in protest against the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]]'s influence in Blizzard.
*March 2016 - [[Phoenix City]], led by COFGamesYT/SirGreendown, migrates from AWTeen to Blizzard. It shortly joins the fledgling Victorian Republic as the second state in that country.
*April 2016 - The first [[Spring Awards]] are created in response to AW's efforts to make a new version of the CY Awards, the OMG! Awards. It is hosted in the city of Victoria.
*August 2016 - [[Cannaville]] is created by [[User:Tardyllamma|Tardyllamma]]. The cities of Victoria, Rezdog, and Summerville also launch a protest on the Virtual Paradise Facebook group over the influence of the [[Parliament of Palmshire]] on the community governance of Blizzard, leading to large-scale destabilizing of the community in that world.
*December 2016 - Cannaville joins the Victorian Republic as its third VP-based state.

=== 2017 ===
*January 2017 - The 2017 Spring Awards are announced with Summerville becoming the second city to host them.
*January 2017 - The [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] formally dissolves as a group, leading to the mass independence of cities such as New Cypress Hollow, New Huntington, Downtown Blizzard, New Beachfield, and New Rockford. The [[Lemerican Federation]] quickly dissolves shortly afterwards in the ongoing chaos. Victoria remains the only functional community nation going forward, with Summerville becoming the only other active city in Blizzard with active development for a period of time. The VP community is told by Hitomi Fujiko that a popular streamer, Vinesauce, is planning to visit VP in the future, leading the community to hastily prepare sections of Blizzard. Hitomi herself is made famous from a 2016 stream of ActiveWorlds by the same individual.
*March 2017 - Vinesauce visits Virtual Paradise unexpectedly, browsing areas such as [[Chafeeville]] and [[Aurora]], as well as exposing the platform at large to thousands of viewers. The stream is bugged due to the usage of an ancient version of VP, leaving segments dysfunctional. Fallout in the community decreases activity in Blizzard significantly
*August 2017 - The city of [[Chimerock]] is created by Rai.

=== 2018 ===
*January 2018 - The 2018 Spring Awards are announced with New Huntington becoming the third city to host them.
*January 2018 - The cities of Victoria, Cannaville & Phoenix City all unilaterally withdraw from the Victorian Republic, de-facto dissolving the last major national government in Blizzard.
*February 2018 - The birth of the original [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities]] in Chimerock. All major cities join the organization in response to the aftermath of Vinesauce & Vicky, and elect Rai as its first General-Secretary, but the original organization does not have an agreed upon government, leaving the organization mostly powerless.
*March 2018 - Work on the redesigned Blizzard LZ begins, leaving Summerville as the temporary (later permanent LZ).

=== 2019 ===
*January 2019 - The 2019 Spring Awards are projected to take place but are cancelled due to little to no activity in VP. NCH would have been the fourth city to host them due to winning the election bid.

=== 2020 ===
*March 2020 - The coronavirus pandemic takes the world by storm, leading to a sudden increase in interest again in Virtual Paradise from the community, including resurrections of several projects.

=== 2021 ===

=== 2022 ===
*July 2022 - The city of New Huntington is renamed Lynnfield by cassadaga & graystripe.
*December 2022 - Talks about a sequel world to Blizzard are discussed among the major cities and the community members of VP.

=== 2023 ===
*January 2023 - Talks regarding the sequel to Blizzard are put on hold due to disagreements between the major cities.
*March 2023 - Changes in Active Worlds such as paying to build leads to a series of rejuvenated interest in Virtual Paradise.
*March & April 2023 - Creation of the [[Victoria|Victorian Regional Government]], a replacement to the old Victorian Republic, as an effort to create a large-scale metropolitan region in Northern Blizzard
**March - Victoria joins the regional government.
**March - Cannaville joins the regional government.
**March - [[Altes Antiguo]] is created as a new city, and swiftly joins the regional government.
**March - [[Sparta]] is created as a new city, and swiftly joins the regional government.
**April - [[New Beachfield]] joins the regional government.
**April - [[New Cypress Hollow]] is given an offer to join the regional government, but declines.

[[Category:History]]

Timeline of Virtual Paradise

2023-11-23T23:14:53Z

The Courier: adding in my knowledge of VP history from at least 2015 to 2017

Victoria

2023-11-23T23:08:21Z

The Courier: /* Republican Victoria (2015-2023) */

{{Nation
|image=Victoria_flag.png
|tagline=
|leaders='''Senior Peers of Victoria'''
*The Courier
*RyanLion
*Tardyllamma
*Zezima
*Sarah
|founded=*2015 (as the Victorian Republic)
*2023 (as current Victoria)
|government=Metropolitan region with decentralized counties.
|members=See below.
}}
The region of '''Victoria''' is a large area in Northern Blizzard that borders New Cypress Hollow and Downtown Blizzard. From 2015 to 2023, this area of Blizzard was under control of the wider '''Victorian Republic''', an initial alternative to the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] that dominated other developed areas of the world. In 2023, Victoria only remains as a cultural, metropolitan subregion in Northern Blizzard.
==History==
===Republican Victoria (2015-2023)===
The city of Victoria was created in 2015 after declaring it's independence from the AW-based XR, a similar union of cities and worlds. As much of the essential government moved over from AW to VP, Victoria would become the seat of power for the new Victorian Republic by 2016, which laid claim to a significant chunk of Northern Blizzard that was not taken by existing projects. An immediate issue at the time was Victoria simply being new & not taken seriously by the community. Builders usually chose to work on established projects, particularly those tied to communities affiliated with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], which acted as the de-facto community government for Blizzard. Victoria had to rely entirely on bringing over newer people from AW via aggressive advertising, notably individuals such as OptimumPx & GSK who would proceed to do their own things in the long-term.

Cannaville would be created in late 2016, becoming one of the first city projects to openly declare an affiliation with Victoria over Palmshire. This would lead to Victoria itself ceasing any discussion about merging with the rest of Blizzard, choosing to pursue its own agenda. Around the same time, Victoria would spearhead conversations within the larger community via the VP Facebook group alongside [[Summerville]], jointly accusing the Parliament of Palmshire of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. This essentially ensured the collapse of Palmshire & its government, as well as that of the [[Lemerican Federation]] due to community fallout, leaving Victoria as the only "national government" operational in Blizzard & her capital being one of only two operational cities (the other being Summerville) for a long period of time.

Eventually, advanced notice of Vinesauce coming to visit VP by 2017 would unite all of VP towards putting aside prior drama & trying to fix up the world. Victoria by this point still nominally had a republic, but it was essentially on life-support and only Victoria proper was still an actively maintained city, just barely. Fallout from the Vinesauce visit further outraged the VP community at large, and functionally put many projects including Vicky in limbo. It would not be until the COVID-19 pandemic that a resurgence in interest took VP by storm and resurrected certain projects such as Vicky. By 2022, the Victorian Republic was formally dissolved & the capital itself was again placed in maintenance mode.

===Dissolution of the Republic & Modern Victoria (2023-present)===
The Victorian Republic was dissolved by The Courier because it became untenable & increasingly outdated in a VP that no longer had such an emphasis on nation RP. The only other legitimate community in the republic apart from Victoria was Cannaville, which at the time was also seen as being abandoned by Zeke. However, fallout from changes in AW during early 2023 would spur another burst of interest in VP from outsiders & long-term members alike. Ironically, Cannaville would be revitalized shortly after the dissolution of the republic & play an additional major role in keeping the concept of Victoria as a idea alive. The suburbs of Altes Antiguo & Sparta would also be shortly created around the immediate vicinity of Victoria as well as the second merger of New Beachfield with Vicky, leading to a decentralized region of autonomous communities operating under the banner of a new Victoria.
==Government==
The region of Victoria is largely a grouping of decentralized counties. All of these counties agree to acknowledge that they are apart of the nation of Victoria, although they have a high degree of autonomy in how they operate their individual affairs:
*[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]] (Victoria County), which is also the recognized capital of the region.
*[[Sparta]] (Sparta County)
*[[Cannaville]] (Canna County)
*[[Altes Antiguo]] (Ryan County)
*[[New Beachfield]] (New Beachfield County)

Each county is represented by a Senior Peer, the acknowledged leader of a county, and agrees to collaborate with neighboring other counties towards building up the region of Victoria. These peers can appoint Junior Peers which are recognized city government officials. All are members of the government, known as the Peerage of Victoria, and may be called upon to participate within meetings pertaining to matters involving the region at the request of a Senior Peer.

As of June 2023, the Peerage of Victoria consisted of the following members:
*Victoria was represented by '''The Courier''' as a Senior Peer, with '''OptimumPx''' as a Junior Peer.
*Altes Antiguo was represented by '''Ry''' as a Senior Peer.
*Sparta was represented by '''Zezima''' as a Senior Peer.
*Cannaville was represented by '''Zeke''' as a Senior Peer, with '''graystripe''' & '''Demon Dogg''' as Junior Peers.
*New Beachfield was represented by '''Sarah''' as a Senior Peer.
[[Category:Victoria]]

Timeline of Virtual Paradise

2023-11-23T22:32:11Z

The Courier: work in progress

PiPoTown

2023-08-04T00:23:54Z

The Courier: Created page with "{{City |image=pipotown.jpg |leaders=masterpipo |running={{no}} |founded=November 2012 |nation=Unaffiliated }} '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an abandoned community in Blizzard. ==History== PiPoTown is unique in Blizzard history as being the earliest independent town ever established in that world, predating even the creation of New Cypress Hollow a day early on November 11, 2012. Unlike New Cypress Hollow however, PiPoTown would quickly fizzle out as soon as it began, bei..."

{{City
|image=pipotown.jpg
|leaders=masterpipo
|running={{no}}
|founded=November 2012
|nation=Unaffiliated
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is an abandoned community in [[Blizzard]].
==History==
PiPoTown is unique in Blizzard history as being the earliest independent town ever established in that world, predating even the creation of [[New Cypress Hollow]] a day early on November 11, 2012. Unlike New Cypress Hollow however, PiPoTown would quickly fizzle out as soon as it began, being largely abandoned by its creator the following year. The only significant builds within this abandoned community are the Hermandez
Building Corporation, PiPoTown City Hall, and an unfinished dancing hall to the north of both builds.

File:Pipotown.jpg

2023-08-04T00:13:20Z

The Courier:

Victoria (city)

2023-08-01T15:58:09Z

The Courier: /* City Government */

{{City
|image=Victoria city.png
|leaders=*'''Mayor:''' The Courier
*'''County Peers:''' Courier, RyLy, Zeke, Zezima, Sarah
|running={{yes}}
|founded=2015
|nation=*[[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|The Commonwealth]]
*[[Victoria|Region of Victoria]]
}}
'''Victoria''', unofficially also known as '''Vicky''' is a city in [[Blizzard]]. Started in 2015 as an experimental offshoot of a larger building community in Active Worlds, the city of Victoria became a proper independent project in the aftermath of the city's main leaders being forcibly exiled onto Virtual Paradise due to larger community drama in AW. Victoria itself is notable for having inspired later cities as well as having brought people over who would become respected as master builders within the VP community at large.

Victoria has played the role of capital to the former Xennan Republic, the Victorian Republic, and the provisional seat of government for the [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|Commonwealth]]. Victoria is also the central flagship city within the overall '''region of [[Victoria]]''', an wider area that includes Cannaville, New Beachfield & Sparta as associated suburbs and counties of Vicky.
==History==
===Beginnings===
[[File:Early vicky.jpeg|250px|thumb|left|Vicky in 2015]]
In 2015, citizens of Alphaworld began work on a new city called Fantasia. The city became a boom-town for residents that continued to make use of the platform, and it had attracted builders such as OptimumPx and KoL to come together and form a unique building group called the Xennan Republic. As the community grew and began to host community events, the leadership also began to make public criticisms of the direction of AW, particularly aimed at the owner for allowing the platform to stagnate. By this point, the residents of Fantasia became more aware of Virtual Paradise and its capabilities as a platform, prompting some to explore the idea of expanding XR into VP. The Victoria Colony was never intended to be a proper city, and was treated more of an experiment in testing out VP's building capabilities. It was not until tensions boiled to a head that the owner of AWI would disable the account of Fantasia's mayor, The Courier, which forced most of the Xennan building group over to VP. Victoria would declare itself as an independent city-state, operating in the same fashion as the Xennan project.

===From Growing Pains to Major Power (2015-2017)===
Victoria itself would not find much love in Virtual Paradise starting off; largely due in part towards its choice of location, steadfast independence from most infrastructure within Blizzard, and most importantly, its building style being in direct contrast to much of the rest of Blizzard. Victoria would not be taken seriously at all until the migration of Optimum into VP, who laid the first initial builds (mainly ports of older Fantasia and Phoenix City builds) in the town. In order to expand, the Victorian leadership would encourage AW citizens to migrate to VP, primarily those who were experienced builders. This was met with mixed results, but Victoria and her efforts of encouraging immigration into VP would nevertheless bring people such as GSK, Tardy, SirGreendown, and Optimum into the platform.

Of much larger issue was its relationship with the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] and her associated cities, which Victoria found herself in direct competition with. The city of Victoria would heavily push its national project, the Republic of Victoria, as an alternative to the long-standing kingdom. This became complete with its own version of a parliament, the Peerage of Victoria, which was treated as a shot against the Parliament as it was seen by many to be the de-facto meeting venue for the VP community at the time. Peers were often the major builders within the city itself who de-facto controlled large chunks of metropolitan Vicky territory, which was meant to reward and encourage retention of builders exclusively to the city, mainly to no avail. In August 2016, tensions would come to a head as Victoria would be the main force alongside [[Summerville]] and the [[Lemerican Federation]] in protesting the parliament system on the VP Facebook group, jointly accusing the Parliament of not fully representing all of VP while imposing laws upon the world of Blizzard itself. After solutions were reached, drama flared again the following day until the existing parliament including Palmshire itself was dissolved by Legion. The Lemerican Federation also collapsed due to the departure of KoL, leaving Victoria & Summerville the only active communities for a long period of time.

Victoria's national government would be dissolved shortly after Palmshire's own government collapsed by January 2017, but the city itself remained an active force and quickly reformed its own government in the wake of community anarchy in VP. Neighboring New Beachfield and Victoria would merge together, briefly forming the city of '''New Atlanta''' until August 2017, when the city of NB changed hands back to Sarah and became independent once more. Cannaville would also become closely tied to developments in the city due to its proximity to Vicky.
===From Decline to New Golden Age (2018 to Present)===
The dissolution of Victoria as a national project would ultimately result in the birth of the [[Commonwealth of Independent Cities]], which was meant to replace the influence of nation roleplay within Blizzard and encourage cooperation among individual cities. However, the Commonwealth would not be formally ratified nor have a proper government for five years, leaving it to also be abandoned for the time being as a serious project. The city would also remain stagnant or borderline dead as other communities like Summerville became the main focus of development until the early 2020s. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, restored interest among the wider community in Virtual Paradise became a factor in the revitalization of specific areas, including Vicky.

2023 was a particularly noteworthy time in Victorian history, and arguably the beginning of a new golden age for the city. In March 2023, the city of Cannaville would formally merge with Victoria, and individuals such as RyanLion & Zezima would create their own villages/towns within Victorian land by following April, which led to the need to reorganize the city government into a system of counties. Canna County, Ryan County, Sparta County & Victoria County would be created during this time period, largely containing the territorial claims of each section of the Victorian metropolitan area. In mid-April 2023, the city of New Beachfield would formally rejoin Victoria with permission from Sarah, becoming New Beachfield County and Victoria's fifth county. Concurrently, the Commonwealth would also be resurrected, encouraging more collaboration between all communities in Blizzard including Victoria's new counties.
==City Government==
The city of Victoria is organized as a council-manager government led by an city council & mayor. The city council functions as both the municipal government as well as the government of the wider [[Victoria|region of Victoria]], a decentralized grouping of multiple counties that share power with each other, in which the city council is then referred to as the Peerage of Victoria. The mayor is the prime leader of the city and can override peers, but peers usually have a large degree of freedom in operation. Peers are also the leaders of individual cities that participate within the region of Victoria, and have the option to withdraw at any moment.

The current peers of the city thus are as follows:
*The Courier
*Tardyllamma
*Ry
*Zezima
*Sarah

New Beachfield

2023-07-30T17:35:56Z

The Courier: replaced ryan with jen

{{City
|image=Nb.png
|leaders=Sarah, Jen (formerly), The Courier, Ry.
|running={{yes}}
|founded = 2013
|nation=*[[Kingdom of Palmshire]] (formerly)
*[[Victoria]]
*[[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|The Commonwealth]]
|book=
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a city in Blizzard. It is currently an associated community & county of [[Victoria]] as of 2023.
==Overview & History==
The city of New Beachfield was formed in 2013 by Sarah & Jen originally as a continuation of the city of Beachfield in AW. For a long time, it was also the furthest of the established cities within the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], being connected to [[New Cypress Hollow]] & considered more as an extension of that area. Development of New Beachfield itself had remained at a glacial level for a long duration, not being helped by the departure of Jen from the community in 2016, leaving only Sarah as the remaining leader.

By 2016, New Beachfield suddenly found itself in close proximity to the rapid development of two new areas, [[Victoria]] & [[Cannaville]], who were both part of the Victorian Republic. Both Palmshire & the republic would collapse by 2018, but NB would still retain closer ties to the city of Victoria going forward. It ultimately became a full-fledged county within the region of Victoria by 2023, the organizational successor to the republic, and was granted extensive patches of land as part of an agreement between Sarah, Courier & Ry. New Beachfield would also join the Commonwealth of Independent Cities that same year.
[[Category:Cities]]
[[Category:Victoria]]

User:The Courier

2023-07-30T15:57:06Z

The Courier:

{{Citizenbox
|The Courier<br> [[image:Tc.jpeg|200px]]
|United States of America [[image:USA.gif]]
|The Courier / Preston / Iceman43
|"Eternally busy."
| 2015
| 343
|Southeast US
|Virus, Birde
|[[Blizzard]]
|[[Victoria]]
|N/A
|}}
Howdy! I'm '''The Courier''' and I've been a member of Virtual Paradise since 2015 and I'm the lead developer for the [[Victoria]] project. I'm also one of the more active maintainers for the Virtual Paradise wiki and I'm happy to help any newcomer to our community.

In a past life, I was involved as one of the primary builders for Oceanic & Rival City from 2010-2012, over in AW. I was also involved with an enthusiasts group for frozen water lovers until 2012 of that same year.

Yes, I am a huge fan of Fallout New Vegas. How did you know? The House Always Wins.
==Current Projects==
*[[Victoria]]
*Real life.

File:Tc.jpeg

2023-07-30T15:56:02Z

The Courier:

User:The Courier

2023-07-30T15:54:07Z

The Courier: Created page with "{{Citizenbox |The Courier<br> |United States of America image:USA.gif |The Courier / Preston / Iceman43 |"Eternally busy." | 2015 | 343 |Southeast US |Virus, Birde |Blizzard |Victoria |N/A |}} Howdy! I'm '''The Courier''' and I've been a member of Virtual Paradise since 2015 and I'm the lead developer for the Victoria project. I'm also one of the more active maintainers for the Virtual Paradise wiki and I'm happy to help any newcomer to our community. In..."

{{Citizenbox
|The Courier<br>
|United States of America [[image:USA.gif]]
|The Courier / Preston / Iceman43
|"Eternally busy."
| 2015
| 343
|Southeast US
|Virus, Birde
|[[Blizzard]]
|[[Victoria]]
|N/A
|}}
Howdy! I'm '''The Courier''' and I've been a member of Virtual Paradise since 2015 and I'm the lead developer for the [[Victoria]] project. I'm also one of the more active maintainers for the Virtual Paradise wiki and I'm happy to help any newcomer to our community.

In a past life, I was involved as one of the primary builders for Oceanic & Rival City from 2010-2012, over in AW. I was also involved with an enthusiasts group for frozen water lovers until 2012 of that same year.
==Current Projects==
*[[Victoria]]
*Real life.

Kingdom of Palmshire

2023-07-30T15:42:00Z

The Courier: updated elements including flag and current status

{{Nation
|image=Palmshire_flag.jpg
|tagline=Nation of [[Blizzard]]
|leaders=[[Legion I of Palmshire]] (king)
Graystripe (prime minister)
|founded=2004
(see [[History of Palmshire|Formation]])
|government=Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
(see [[Government of Palmshire]])
|members=*'''[[New Cypress Hollow]]''' (capital)
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a sovereign state with parliamentary constitutional monarchy and its capital city is [[New Cypress Hollow]]. It came into existence on 4 July [[2004]]. The current [[Monarchy of Palmshire|Palmshire monarch]] – since 22 January 2011 – is [[Legion I of Palmshire|King Legion I]]. In early 2017, the Kingdom collapsed due to a number of external and internal reasons, leading to the fleeing of the King as well as several member-states declaring independence.

In October of 2017, the Kingdom was reformed with former states. It's functional status is unclear as of 2023, as the government itself has not hosted legislative meetings since its most recent parliamentary elections in 2018, however Palmshire as a cultural and political entity still exists.

==Geography==
Currently as of July 2023, the following areas within Virtual Paradise are considered functionally part of the Kingdom.
===Blizzard===
*Downtown Blizzard
*New Cypress Hollow
*New Rockford

==Government==
:<div class="boilerplate" id="stub">''Main Article: [[Government of Palmshire]].''</div>

The head of government is [[Prime Minister of Palmshire|Prime Minister]], the prime minister, while the head of state is [[Monarchy of Palmshire|monarch]], the Sovereign.

Under the Palmshire constitution, executive authority lies with the Sovereign. This authority is exercised only by, or on the advice of, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.

The current Prime Minister of Palmshire is [[graystripe]], leader of the [[Liberal Democrats]], who was appointed by [[Legion I of Palmshire|King Legion]] on 13 November [[2017]].

==External Links==
* [https://discord.gg/DAJcuyt Official Discord server for the Kingdom of Palmshire]

[[Category: Kingdom of Palmshire| ]]

File:Palmshire flag.jpg

2023-07-30T15:35:10Z

The Courier:

New Beachfield

2023-07-30T15:25:51Z

The Courier: Created page with "{{City |image=Nb.png |leaders=Sarah, Ryan (formerly), The Courier, Ry. |running={{yes}} |founded = 2013 |nation=*Kingdom of Palmshire (formerly) *Victoria *The Commonwealth |book= }} '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a city in Blizzard. It is currently an associated community & county of Victoria as of 2023. ==Overview & History== The city of New Beachfield was formed in 2013 by Sarah & Ryan originally as a continuation of the city..."

{{City
|image=Nb.png
|leaders=Sarah, Ryan (formerly), The Courier, Ry.
|running={{yes}}
|founded = 2013
|nation=*[[Kingdom of Palmshire]] (formerly)
*[[Victoria]]
*[[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|The Commonwealth]]
|book=
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a city in Blizzard. It is currently an associated community & county of [[Victoria]] as of 2023.
==Overview & History==
The city of New Beachfield was formed in 2013 by Sarah & Ryan originally as a continuation of the city of Beachfield in AW. For a long time, it was also the furthest of the established cities within the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], being connected to [[New Cypress Hollow]] & considered more as an extension of that area. Development of New Beachfield itself had remained at a glacial level for a long duration, not being helped by the departure of Ryan from the community in 2016, leaving only Sarah as the remaining leader.

By 2016, New Beachfield suddenly found itself in close proximity to the rapid development of two new areas, [[Victoria]] & [[Cannaville]], who were both part of the Victorian Republic. Both Palmshire & the republic would collapse by 2018, but NB would still retain closer ties to the city of Victoria going forward. It ultimately became a full-fledged county within the region of Victoria by 2023, the organizational successor to the republic, and was granted extensive patches of land as part of an agreement between Sarah, Courier & Ry. New Beachfield would also join the Commonwealth of Independent Cities that same year.
[[Category:Cities]]
[[Category:Victoria]]

File:Nb.png

2023-07-30T14:53:22Z

The Courier: New Beachfield

== Summary ==
New Beachfield

New Cypress Hollow

2023-07-30T14:50:10Z

The Courier: Created page with "{{City |image=Nch.png |leaders=GC |running={{yes}} |founded = 2012 |nation=*Kingdom of Palmshire *The Commonwealth |book= }} '''{{PAGENAME}}''', shortened to '''NCH''', is a city in Blizzard. It is a continuation of the original Cypress Hollow founded in AWTeen from 2005. ==Overview== New Cypress Hollow was among one of the earliest cities to be established in Blizzard by 2012. It also serves as the capital of the King..."

{{City
|image=Nch.png
|leaders=GC
|running={{yes}}
|founded = 2012
|nation=*[[Kingdom of Palmshire]]
*[[Commonwealth of Independent Cities|The Commonwealth]]
|book=
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''', shortened to '''NCH''', is a city in [[Blizzard]]. It is a continuation of the original Cypress Hollow founded in AWTeen from 2005.
==Overview==
New Cypress Hollow was among one of the earliest cities to be established in [[Blizzard]] by 2012. It also serves as the capital of the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]], a trait that NCH picks up from its predecessor in AWTeen after that community's migration to Virtual Paradise. New Cypress Hollow was traditionally one of the main areas to build in alongside Downtown Blizzard, particularly for residential builds. Due to the size and tight integration between New Cypress Hollow & Downtown Blizzard, the two towns can often be considered to be one single area and there is not a clear division as to where the city limits of both begin & end. NCH however, officially is to the northwest of Downtown Blizzard and has a hard line dividing it between itself, [[Victoria]] & [[New Beachfield]].

A good chunk of NCH is divided between a large river that it shares with Victoria, with the northern half of the river traditionally being reserved for housing made by its builders. The southern side of the city is much more tightly connected to Downtown Blizzard. The [[Parliament of Palmshire]] is located in this area of town, as well as most of Palmshire's major institutions such as the official residency of her Prime Minister.

The significance of NCH has declined due to both the dormancy of Palmshire as well as user focus having recently changed towards areas such [[Summerville]], [[Victoria|the Victoria counties]], and [[Lynnfield]]. However, NCH is still an actively maintained community as of 2023, with most efforts currently being focused towards connecting it with neighboring Summerville to the west.
[[Category:Cities]]

File:Nch.png

2023-07-30T14:22:56Z

The Courier:

List of communities

2023-07-30T14:18:08Z

The Courier: adding jump commands, population stats are irrelevant

This page lists the following cities in Virtual Paradise. Some cities are one-person projects while others are more open to builders.

==[[VP-Build]]==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" width=100%
|-
!Name
!Coordinates
!Date established
!Mayor(s)
!Jump Command
!Notes
|-
||[[Lapis Viridia]]
||
||2018
||Dragon
||!j lapisviridia
||Dormant as of 2023. Solo project, notably the only non-Blizzard town.
|-
|}

==[[Blizzard]]==
{| class="wikitable" border="1" width=100%
|-
!Name
!Coordinates
!Date established
!Mayor(s)
!Jump Command
!Notes
|-
||[[Chimerock]]
||-2380X -292Z
||5 August 2017
||[[User:alstanbery|alstanbery]]
||!j chimerock
||Dormant as of 2023.
|-
||[[New Beachfield]]
||26X 195Z
||July 2013
||[[User:Sarah|Sarah]], [[User:The Courier|The Courier]]
||!j nb
||Active as of 2023.
|-
||[[New Cypress Hollow]]
||100 0 100 -180
||12 November 2012
||[[User:GC|GC]]
||!j nch
||Actively maintained as of 2023, historically the capital of the [[Kingdom of Palmshire]] project.
|-
||[[Lynnfield]]
||71X -105Z
||4 August 2013
||[[User:RyanLennon|RyanLennon]], [[User:graystripe|graystripe]]
||!j lf
||Formerly New Huntington, actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Summerville]]
||328.661X -66.346Z 180
||2013
||[[User:graystripe|graystripe]]
||!j summerville
||Actively maintained as of 2023, current landing zone/flagship for Blizzard.
|-
||[[Victoria (city)|Victoria]]
||2X 145Z
||9 September 2015
||[[User:The Courier|The Courier]]
||!j vicky
||Actively maintained as of 2023, capital city of the [[Victoria|Victoria region]].
|-
||[[Sparta]]
||
||April 2023
||Zezima
||!j sparta
||Actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Cannaville]]
||
||August 2016
||Zeke
||!j cannaville
||Actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Pine County]]
||
||January 2018
||Demon Dogg
||!j pinecounty
||Formerly Countryside, actively maintained as of 2023.
|-
||[[Altes Antiguo]]
||
||2017/2023
||Ry
||!j resort
||Formerly part of the city of Victoria, now an independently maintained city as of 2023.
|-
|}

[[Category:Communities| ]]
[[Category:Lists|c]]