Broccoli Scepter Award for Outstanding Contributions to Unnecessary Complexity

This award is given to individuals who have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to making things more complicated than they need to be.

Winner: The Committee to Make Things More Difficult (CTMD) for their 5-year-long effort to add 17 new features to the "Simple Button" project, resulting in a 3000-line spec document.

This year, the committee has also been recognized for their innovative approach to adding 5 extra zeros to a 5-digit number.

Other notable mentions include:

• The "Infinite Loop" Loop-the-Loop award for the best way to solve a simple math problem
• The "Redundant Redirection" award for the most creative way to redeclare the same thing three times
• The "Unnecessary Unnecessary" award for the most creative use of "un-" prefixes

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