Posted: 1/6/2010 3:33 AM
(Edited: 2/3/2010 3:13 PM)
Post subject: 2009 TAS awards ceremony - Winners Announced
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adelikat
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TASer of 2010 NES TASer of 2010 DS TASer of 2010 Arcade TAS of 2010 NES TASer of 2008 NES TAS of 2008 Funny TAS of 2008 TASer of 2007 NES TASer of 2007 Funny TAS of 2007
Winners! Chrono Trigger "glitched any%", TAS of the year Lord Tom, the TASer of 2009 arukAdo, the Rookie of 2009 Lord Tom, the NES TASer of 2009 Cpadolf, the SNES TASer of 2009 maTO, the Sega TASer of 2009 Ryuto, the GBX TASer of 2009 arukAdo, the Rookie platform TASer of 2009 Megaman 2, the NES TAS of 2009 Chrono Trigger "glitched any%", the SNES TAS of 2009 Crusader of Centy, the Sega TAS of 2009 AoS "100% Souls", the GBX TAS of 2009 Castlevania - Symphony of the Night, the Rookie platform TAS of 2009 Family Feud the Funny TAS of 2009 Chrono Trigger, the Glitchy TAS of 2009 Family Feud, the Innovative TAS of 2009 Shining Force, the Lucky TAS of 2009 Gunstar Super Heroes, the Speedy TAS of 2009 ---- Greetings and welcome to our 3rd annual awards ceremony. Here we acknowledge the best tool-assisted movies and movie makers over the course of 2009. 2009 has been an epic year for TASVideos including an unprecedented expansion of TASable platforms. This year we witness the first time publications of PSX, Arcade, Saturn, PC Engine, PC Engine CD, Game Gear, and Nintendo DS games. In addition, our most unimprovable movies were improved, and our most entertaining obsoleted. Due to limited publication of these new systems, this year they will be lumped into "New Platform" categories. This year we have a new twist to the awards. Money! The money came from some very generous donations. Much thanks to the contributers! (Will place names here upon request of the donators) It isn't much but I want to be able to reward our outstanding contributers in some way. I hope this will become the tradition and the values can get larger as we are able to afford to do so. Current prize pool: $100 Distribution: The TASer of the year: $20 TAS of the year: $15 Rookie of the year: $15 Each of the platform TASer & TAS of the year awards will get $4 each "Specialty" Awards will get $2 (awards such as lucky, speedy, etc) Also, awards now display on winner's forum posts as well as displayed on movie pages. Once nominations are done, we will start a two week poll. Afterwards the winners will be announced. The TAS of the Year voting will then be opened. TAS of the year nominees will be the winners of the individual platform awards. SNES and N64 were combined this year due to lack of N64 publications. SNES isn't a great one to group it with, but seemed to be the best option. For details on rules, awards, and eligibility, see the awards page.
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Posted: 1/6/2010 3:34 AM
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sgrunt
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This is a good opportunity for me to point out my list of 2009 movies, for your consideration when thinking of movies to nominate.
Posted: 1/6/2010 3:39 AM
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The lack of a multitude of TASs published for a certain category is indeed a problem. Instead of lumping them in places they don't belong, why don't we have a category for systems which had <10 publications for it? Those with 10 or more I think deserve their own category even if new. Edit: Looking over Sgrunt's list, it looks to me like we have enough TASs for both PSX and PCE to let them have a distinct award this year. Edit 2: This would mean lumping N64, Nintendo DS, SMS, and arcade, and giving the rest their own award.
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Posted: 1/6/2010 3:51 AM
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mmbossman
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GBx TAS of 2008
If psx is given it's own category, maybe N64 should be placed there? Similar systems and console generation would make more sense to me.
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Posted: 1/6/2010 3:53 AM
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mmbossman wrote:
If psx is given it's own category, maybe N64 should be placed there? Similar systems and console generation would make more sense to me.
i agree
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Posted: 1/7/2010 12:25 AM
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TASer of 2010 NES TASer of 2010 DS TASer of 2010 Arcade TAS of 2010 NES TASer of 2008 NES TAS of 2008 Funny TAS of 2008 TASer of 2007 NES TASer of 2007 Funny TAS of 2007
We had a generous donation of $50 towards our award prize pool (putting it up to $65). I redid the award amounts in the announcement post. I'm very thankful for this donation :)
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Posted: 1/14/2010 2:44 PM
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Randil
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Hehe, I never thought I could ever make money from TASing. :) I like this idea, and $50 is indeed a very generous donation.
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Posted: 1/14/2010 2:45 PM
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Nach
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Randil wrote:
Hehe, I never thought I could ever make money from TASing. :) I like this idea, and $50 is indeed a very generous donation.
Actually, donations for awards have brought the total up to $100.
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Posted: 1/21/2010 6:45 PM
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PSX TAS of 2011 PSX TAS of 2010 Rookie of 2009 New systems TASer of 2009 New systems TAS of 2009
I want to say officially here that im whilling to refund anything i would win trought award as a donation to tasvideos.org For sake of simplicity, i guess we dont need to move any money from where it is right now. Thanks to everybody who voted for me ! (80% for new systems taser !)
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Posted: 2/23/2010 6:55 AM
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Eratyx
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Sega TAS of 2020 Sega TAS of 2009
You know, when I made the Crusader of Centy TAS, my primary concern was that it would get published. I never dreamed that I'd win an award for it, much less pull in a prize! Jeez!