Ringer obviously brings out the big guns when the awards are the highest - 16 of his crescents are in the upper tiers, including 2 Diamond Stars. That is out-freaking-standing! Like Howie has already pointed out, the better-than-50% placement rate is also phenomenal, but when you factor it in with the number of upper-tier Crescents, that tells me he is able to play alongside our top members in the DJB as a whole in many different aspects of activity. Something not mentioned is his entry into the ACC arena where he clearly learned from early battles (score of 3.35 to a great score of 4.2). I'm excited to see where he goes from here and am whole-heartedly appending my recommendation to this award as well. Congrats!