Rookie of the year (answer)
Awarded for the best answer by a user who had not posted an answer before 2016. Note that the user may have posted challenges before 2016. SEDE query for such answers, ordered by score.
Nominations:
#Golf you a quine for great good (Vim) -- udioica
Nominated by DJMcMayhem
Not a lot of people on this site golf in vim, so I used to think I was the king of vim-golf on this site. I wrote a 17 byte vim-quine and challenged anyone to outgolf me, thinking I was safe. Boy was I wrong.
Udioica noticed the challenge, and rose to it, golfing a whopping 6 bytes off of my solution on the first day they ever used PPCG.