This is informal – feel free to submit your own favorite Pirates CSG stuff from 2025! 2024 version for reference
These are my favorites from what I’ve done:
Fleet of the Year: Guichuan Death Setup (created before 2025 but only published and used starting in 2025) Close 2nd to Map Chaos
Pictures of the Year: New Ships created for my Relaunch of Pirates CSG!

Game of the Year: 4 Fleets, 60 points: Map Chaos vs. English vs. Inflated Gold Scores vs. Spanish
Video of the Year: Pirates: Seas of Japan | Full Promo Video (just barely my personal favorite, I didn’t really have any “big” special videos this year – mostly just documenting stuff)
Podcast of the Year: N/A, didn’t record any
“Thing” of the Year: Making Pirates! New releases just like last year. Glad the game is in print again!
Theme of the Year: Burnout? Not sure what to put for this one. The stuff from my July megapost was heavy on my mind throughout the year. My Pirates business is a risky venture with limited financial upside/potential, so it feels kind of insane to keep going sometimes. For Q4 the theme was definitely the subscription box model.
Event of the Year: Probably the Buccaneer’s Booty Box subscription launch, as it was essential to get at least 30 people signed up to justify keeping the production going. For an in-person event, the Talk Like a Pirate Day Weekend in LA. Plus various product launches: Seas of Japan, Rise of Atlantis, War of 1812 Mega Pack, and now the reveals of new game pieces and Mega Pack themes for the subscription box such as GAOP1 and FLEMP.