_______ of the Year
In keeping with the theme of trying to write more upbeat blog posts, here is a collection of some stuff I thought was cool from this year:Game of the year: Nier: Automata
Album of the year: Brand New - Science Fiction (honourable mention: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana)
Anime of the year: Shingeki no Kyojin season 2 (honourable mention: KonoSuba season 2)
Youtube channel of the year: Sugar Pine 7 (honourable mentions: Frank Yang, Binging with Babish, StorrorBlog, Chicken Connoisseur)
Podcast of the year: If I Were You with Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld
Esports moment of the year: KuroKy's reaction to winning The International 7
Poker moment of the year: Tonka slowrolls Jebediah Gibbler (for some reason I find this disproportionately more hilarious than it actually is)
Chess moment of the year: Ding Liren's unbelievable game v Jinshi Bai from the Chinese Chess League.
I might add some more if anything springs to mind.