Golden Apple Awards 2014
In 2014 there was a major overhaul of the Golden Apple Awards categories. The Rookie category was removed and replaced with a more broad Breakthrough category. Site and Contest categories were merged with Contribution category. The Community award was removed and a new similar kind of award was introduced: The Juror's Choice. The Juror's choice is an entirely jury-decided award that can be given to any person(s) within the scene for any reason deemed appropriate.
The show was held on IRCnet #gaa on April 12th 2015, at 20:00 EEST. The GAA period was from January 1st 2014 - December 31st 2014.
Winners
The following is a list of GAA winners for 2014.
| # | Category | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Internalist | Spef |
| 2. | Externalist | adi |
| 3. | Battler | Zero |
| 4. | Breakthrough | bene |
| 5. | Designer | umiz |
| 6. | Team | MiE |
| 7. | WR | 30. Pipe: 30,29 Kazan #374 |
| 8. | Style | Zweq's Zig-Zag styles (33z5231.rec and 33z5338.rec) |
| 9. | Replay | chainpi3adi.rec by adi |
| 10. | Level | DAFF104.lev by Danielj |
| 11. | Contribution | FEM2014 arranged by nick-o-matic |
| 12. | Achievement | Kazan for achieving a 1 Hour TT of 38 minutes |
| 13. | Art | Ville_J's Julkalendern |
| 14. | Juror's Choice | SveinR |
| # | Category | Winner |
Speeches
1. Internalist, Spef:
Spef: Thank you! It has been quite an effort but it has paid off. Hopefully I'll be able to keep going and win next year too.
2. Externalist, adi:
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3. Battler, Zero:
Zero: Wow thank! This feels really nice actually since battling has been pretty much a lifestyle to me. Some of you might relate. Thx everybody for sharing some amazing battle experiences during the last year and also big thanks to the designers for keeping the battle scene alive pretty much every single day.
4. Breakthrough, bene:
bene: w0w gz b0ne!
bene: 2014 was a good year for internals and for bene. As all of you probably know I have spent way too much time hoyling for the wrs I got during 2014.
bene: THe yar started with 11,45 in freefall and ended with 14,00 in warm up on new years eve.
bene: But all the time wasted hoyling wrs has improved and fine tuned my skills for hoyla wrs, and i dont seem to be able to stop. So expect some sick wrs during 2015 osv.
5. Designer, umiz:
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6. Team, MiE:
7. WR, Spef:
8. Style, Bjenn and bene:
9. Replay, Zweq:
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10. Level, MP:
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11. Contribution, Ramone:
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12. Achievement, Kazan:
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13. Art, milagros:
14. Juror's Choice
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Jury
- Bludek
- Finman
- Haruhi
- Markku
- Zero
- SveinR (organized the event, not voting member)
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.