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Hot damn! We're just minutes away from live-feeding the First Annual Saxxy Awards, and the anticipation is thick here at TF headquarters. Why? Because tonight, we are going to announce a contest winner every five minutes until someone dies! Hold on, there's somebody at the door. Keep rereading this paragraph until we get back.
Okay, we're back! Valve's lawyers said we need to make it clear that absolutely nobody is going to die as a result of these awards, and that we should erase that last paragraph. But guess what? We can't! We're live-feeding this blog post too! There's no going back! We're working without a net here. Literally anything could happen! Except for us claiming someone will die as a result of these awards, because we had to sign a pretty serious-looking stack of papers just now guaranteeing we will not mention it again.
What we can tell you is that all twenty of tonight's winners are going home with a handsome 100% Australium-plated Saxton Hale statuette, which'll look great on your virtual mantle, and even better buried waist-deep in the skull of one of your enemies, since it's also an in-game melee weapon. So technically we were right, and someone IS going to die as a result of these awards. Hold on, there's someone at the door again. While we go see who it is, why not settle in with a bowl of popcorn and click on over to the awards, which by the time you finish reading this might have already started.
AND THE WINNERS ARE:
Most Inventive Kill:
The Lime One
Created by: [LapFox] The Limie One
Best Mid-air Murder:
Spy in the Sky
Created by: Q. and Quark
Biggest Massacre:
[TF2] Saxxy Awards - Biggest Massacre
Created by: tF
Funniest Replay:
TF2 Failed Griefing
Created by: ArseGravy
Best Getaway:
The Ninja Scout. TF2 REPLAY (Finals)
Created by: Goronix
Best Revenge:
Scout Comeback
Created by: Kaedechtu
Most Pwnage:
First Annual Saxxy Awards Film (by Maso)
Created by: Maso
Most Heroic:
uberblokK -The Medic Who blocked with an uber [Saxxy Most Heroic Finalist]
Created by: .G(omez)
Best Set Design:
'What is beauty?' - Best Set Design
Created by: WilliamBoo ONEHOSTAGEEVERYHOUR
Best Team Costume:
MIGHTY MEDIC UBER RANGERS!
Created by: Clovernoodle,
Darth Z,
Hamz The Gentle Manne,
Beep,
Legion,
Fire on the Mountain and
Moby The Duck
Best Original Soundtrack:
Saxton's Six
Created by: Zoolooman, Juno and rally
Best 30 second trailer:
Heavy Endorsing Guy
Created by: EdbotnikThe
Best Coordinated Combat:
TF2 - Best Coordinated Combat - SAXXY Awards
Created by: JulianosTheGreat
Most Dramatic:
The Spying - Team Fortress 2 Saxxy Awards
Created by: OneOfThoseDays and Damone
Best Cinematography:
Saxxy Award Entry
Created by: Sauctaliens
Best Editing:
The Battle for DeGroot Keep
Created by: Heeere's Johnny
Most Epic Fail:
TF2 Replay: Most Epic Fail Finalist
Created by: rage
Most Extreme Stunt:
Reflect! Reflect! Reflect!
Created by: [RMF]RIKUSYO
Players' Choice aka Most Controversial:
Badwater D
Created by: jig
Best Overall:
El Muchacho
Created by: xlr105 -Chicken Eater-
And that's a wrap! Thanks to everybody who submitted an entry, all the people who voted, and to Rebecca Black and Rick Astley, who submitted their own work several thousand times under different names. Read the rules next time, Rick Astley. Geez.
Thanks again! We can't wait to see what you'll come up with as the TF filmmaking tools evolve.
Tune in for the First Annual Saxxy Awards Show LIVE at 3:00PM PDT this Wednesday, June 8th! We'll be revealing a new category winner every five minutes! That's one hundred frantic, furious minutes of award-bestowing! As far as we know, nobody has ever attempted to hand out this many awards in so short a time.
Starting tomorrow find twice as many items. Enjoy!
Much like in the historical documentary 300, we have evaluated all of your movies and thrown the weak ones down a well, keeping only the Gerard Butlers. Now it's up to you, the TF2 community, to select the Gerard Butleriest.
"This is madness!" we hear you say. "No it is not!" we reply, just like in that immortal scene we always fast forward through to get to the fight scenes.
That's right. Unlike at other awards shows, where the winners are necromanced by magicians, the Saxxy Award winners in all twenty categories will be picked by YOU, the discriminating TF2 player, as well as by magicians.
Each player gets one vote per category. You can change your vote right up until the voting ends this Monday, June 6th, at 11:00am PST.
Click here to start judging!
At the close of the submission deadline last Thursday, we'd received tens of thousands of videos—many of them amazing, others less amazing but at least following the rules, and still more of them clips from King of Queens with Linkin Park songs dubbed over them. While we appreciate the passion of that final group, we should remind you that the King of Queens Metal Maelstrom contest isn't until next month.
For the rest of you, this is a reminder to get voting. As of last Thursday the Saxxys entered the all-important Battle Voting stage, with your choices bringing the strongest videos in each category to the top of the heap. Battle Voting ends Thursday, May 26th, so if you've got opinions, vote now while they still matter!
Once Battle Voting's culled the weak, Kevin James-based rap metal entries from the herd, a panel of immortal Valve combat film critics will descend from their monastery at the top of the Space Needle to choose a set of final nominees from each category. They will then bang an important-looking gong, thus re-opening the voting to the community. Each user will get ONE vote per category to help determine who will be taking home Saxxys.
Lastly, some clarifications: 1:01 IS a valid length for submissions, since it turns out YouTube is adding a second here or there during upload. Also, flagged videos ARE being screened and removed. We're listening and our fingers are hovering over the DELETE button, so keep flagging.
That's it! Thanks to the TF community as a whole for taking the time to vote, and specifically to the many talented folks out there who were willing to take the Replay Editor out for a spin and make some entertaining shorts in the process.
