The unexpected has happened! A quake update! Some had probably lost their hope in this community but we are still alive and running. Let's say the year 2010 was a holiday for us.

To make this update somehow special we have decided to give Nolan awards for all demos (some are not from 2010 but they'll be treated as such):

Castle of the Damned 2-Player Nightmare 100% in 0:51 by uN-DeaD!eThaD and BG-EKS*elenc, beating Ilkka Kurkela and Aleksander Osipov by 3 seconds.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Rookies of the Year". Great skills on display from the Defrag high-sensitivity mouse twitchers. It's a shame they weren't on the scene a few years back so they could have competed against The Udders, The Yanks (old and new), Les Dogs, etc.

Termination Central 2-Player Nightmare 100% in 0:51 by uN-DeaD!eThaD and BG-EKS*elenc, beating Jason Hochreiter and Adam Lewandowski by 3 seconds.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "ID Coop". I'm still not sure just why this is faster (and I must have watched it literally three times) but I'm glad it is. It warms me through to the gametes.

• 1000zwei
  • Easy 100% in 2:54 by Jaakko Alakopsa, tablefiller.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Easy 100% (any category)". Good work fighting off the opposition in this hotly contested category. Go Nak!
  • Nightmare 100% in 3:21 by Jaakko Alakopsa, tablefiller.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Nightmare 100% (on 1000zwei.bsp)".

Coag3_spy Nightmare Run in 0:26 by Basil de Vries, beating himself by 2 seconds.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Trick" for the slopey quad GJ. A nice demo all round from the small-headed, big-faced gibberish ejaculator. Too bad for Basil that he did not get the award for "Rookie of the Year" as he always wanted to - better luck next year!

• Death
  • Easy Run in 1:31 by Richard Skidmore, beating Laurent Mertens by 10 seconds.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best ID Easy Run" simply because I'll never win one any other way than cheating.
  • Nightmare Run in 1:46 by Laurent Mertens, tablefiller.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Custom Nightmare Run". Belgium's finest once again proving why he's known as "Mr Mertens". It's because it's his name, I think.
  • Nightmare 100% in 2:20 by Richard Skidmore, tablefiller.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Original Musical Score". And anyone who says I'm running out of ideas for awards can just fuck right off.

Digs02 2-Player Nightmare 100% in 1:08 by Jaakko Alakopsa and Karol Urbanski, tablefiller.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Death" for the young Polish hate machine and razor-blade face slasher.

E4m7rmx Easy run in 0:54 by Mathias Thore , beating Paul Davies by 22 seconds.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Custom Easy Run". Remix maps usually iron out some of the more annoying aspects of the original. Usually.

Nbh Nightmare Run in 0:24 by Jaakko Alakopsa, tablefiller.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Demo that just sneaked in to the update at the last minute". I haven't watched this yet, I'm saving it for a new year's treat.

Rettear Nightmare Run in 0:54 by Mathias Thore, beating Daniel Lindberg by 2 seconds.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Overall demo of the year". It's monster dodging mayhem from the plucky Swedish goat-botherer. A reminder of what real skill is. Crowded NR bunnyfests like this were always my favourite demos to see from Martin, Peter, Ken, Ilkka, Evan, Joe, Attila, Justin, Markus, Daniel (various Daniels), Finbar, Corky, Weasel and Susan.

Sm155_trinca Nightmare Run in 0:05 by Mathias Thore, tablefiller.
Wins Mandel another Nolan 2010 for "Shortest demo of the year".

Toa 2-Player Easy 100% in 1:34 by Paul Davies and Jaakko Alakopsa, tablefiller.
Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Coop Easy 100 on Normal Skill as the Amazon and Sorceress". Not quite sure how this one got in there, but we try not to discriminate here at TeamSDA.

• Zooloo
  • 2-Player Easy Run in 0:17 by Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre, tablefiller.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Coop Easy Run". Pif and Luc of the Clan de Mestre rocking it up in their usual style. Once again making as many demos as any coop pair this year.
  • 2-Player Nightmare Run in 0:18 by Pif de Mestre and Luc de Mestre, tablefiller.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Coop Nightmare Run". Strangely similar to the previous run... but slower.
  • 2-Player Nightmare 100% in 0:47 by Jaakko Alakopsa and Karol Urbanski, tablefiller.
    Wins the Nolan 2010 for "Best Coop Nightmare 100%". I'm not saying it's a bad demo, but it made me want to vomit blood in to a frying pan and make sausages, and then feed those sausages to Jaakko and Karol. And then, when they inevitably vomit, to collect that in 2 frying pans, make more sausages and then feed each others sausages to the other one. In fairness, this is actually a pretty good demo but I just liked the sound of the phrase "vomit sausages".

There are two other Nolans that need to be awarded before we sign off. The first is the traditional "Fool of the Year", which goes to all of us here at TeamSDA for taking a full year to post an update. But if every one of you out there sends in just one demo in the next 12 months then we promise to update at least once every six months. Using time travel if necessary.

And we will round of the year with the "Living Legend" award. This goes to a guy who used to make occasional appearences on this site when certain lazy updaters were looking for a cheap laugh. He kindly sent a few words in in honour of his award. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Jokus Horlinus.
"Hi guys! Since I last speed ran the Quakes I have moved on and am now Professor of Love here at Findengary University. In my work here I have brought intimate pleasure to over 470 girls and 4 clean-limbed young men (hey! We don't like to exclude or judge!). I could never have got this job if not for the skills I aquired speedrunning. Not the finishing as quickly as possible, of course, but the more important things like excrutiating attention to detail and the patience and willingness to repeat the same moves hundreds and hundreds of times in order to bring it off. So keep up the good work, guys. I can personally guarantee that speedrunning will make you the greatest lovers in the world. CHEERS!"