Golden Apple Awards 2007
This edition of the GAA's saw two substantial changes: The inclusion of a new category, the Community Award, alongside the removal of the Multi WR category. The Community Award is an award where the jury has no say whatsoever: The community can vote for whomever they like, for whatever reasons they choose. This category has been a success and has been included in every GAA show since. There were also some minor changes, the definition of Rookie is now 'someone who entered the scene in the GAA period', and it was clarified that to be eligible for the Replay category, actual .rec files needed to be made public (not just having the run present in a movie).
The show was held on IRCnet #gaa on January 13th 2008, at 20:00 EET. The GAA period was from December 18th 2006 to December 16th 2007.
Winners
The following is a list of GAA winners for 2007.
| # | Category | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Internalist | Zweq |
| 2. | Externalist | axxu |
| 3. | Battler | Zweq |
| 4. | Rookie | Bjorn |
| 5. | Designer | Jappe2 |
| 6. | Team | WNO |
| 7. | WR | 24. Ramp Frenzy 42,85 Zweq #265 |
| 8. | Style | Zweq's Ramp Frenzy |
| 9. | Replay | mkup309.lev: 21,57 talli |
| 10. | Level | LC306.lev, The Dead Scene by Xhomaz |
| 11. | Contest | LOS Cup 3 |
| 12. | Contribution | milagros: Creating and developing belma; introducing a whole new dimension to Elasto Mania |
| 13. | Achievement | Zweq: Pulling off crazy and legendary styles (Hi Flyer, Ramp Frenzy), helping cut down WR TT considerably. Getting the biggest absolute improvement on a WR since February 2002, and the biggest relative improvement since August 2000. Broke 23 min limit for Combined TT along with Juzam |
| 14. | Site | Kopasite |
| 15. | Community Award | milagros |
| # | Category | Winner |
Speeches
To be updated.
Jury
- axxu
- skint0r
- SveinR
- tijsjoris
- zebra
- zworqy
Rules
First step:
People in the community give their favoured suggestions to who should be nominated in the different categories in the proper GAA thread on Mopolauta. To be able to vote in the third step, one must make suggestions in the thread. It is not compulsory to make suggestions in more than one category, but that is of course recommended.
Second step:
The jury members will choose ten candidates to each category according to their experience and knowledge. They will be also reading the community's suggestions.
Third step:
Now we have top10 for each category available and again the community can vote. The criteria for being allowed to vote are: well-known player (decided by the jury) and the player has posted some suggestions in the first step (so we see that he has been active during the whole process) or he doesn't have to be well-known if he posted a nice suggestion list with reasonable arguments. These limits are set for getting more appropriate votes. People don't have to vote in every category but if they do vote in some category they must pick their top5 and not just top1 or top3.
Fourth step:
The jury will collect the top5 for each category according absolutely to the community votes. The point system will be as follows: 5 points to every first position, 4 points to every second position etc. This will be the top5 to be used in the final show.
Fifth step:
The different jury members will vote over the different categories, and the community will also give 2 votes to the candidate who got most points in the third step, and 1 vote to the candidate who got the second-most points. The different jury members' votes will not be public. In the event of a tie, the candidate who got most points from community in the third step will win. If there still is a tie, the one who got most 5 points will win, then 4 points etc. If the winner cannot be resolved by this, the jury will come together and discuss the matter to declare a winner.
Voting for the Community Award:
Each voter will list up to 3 people, in ranked order from 1st to 3rd. Each 1st position will give 5 points, each 2nd position will give 3 points and each 3rd position will give 1 point. Voting in this category is not compulsory.