First Annual Saxxy Awards

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HEAVY ENOUGH TO KILL A MAN WITH! — TF2 Official Blog

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The First Annual Saxxy Awards is a contest held amongst the community to create a replay in order to earn "the most prestigious virtual award in combat filmmaking: a foot-high bust of an almost entirely naked Australian man." It was announced alongside the Replay Update.

Categories

1. Most Inventive Kill
2. Best Mid-air Murder
3. Biggest Massacre
4. Funniest Replay
5. Best Getaway
6. Best Revenge
7. Most Pwnage
8. Most Heroic
9. Players Choice
10. Best Set Design
11. Best Team Costume
12. Best Original Soundtrack
13. Best 30 Second Trailer
14. Best Coordinated Combat
15. Most Dramatic
16. Best Cinematography
17. Best Editing
18. Most Epic Fail
19. Most Extreme Stunt
20. Best Overall Replay

The Rules

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Please keep entries to under a minute, and at a resolution of at least 720p. Only entries created between 12:00:00 AM GMT, Thursday, May 5th, 2011 and 11:59:59 PM GMT, Thursday, May 19th, 2011, and submitted by 11:59:59 PM GMT, Thursday, May 19th, 2011, will be considered. Only one entry per category per Steam user will be considered. If you submit multiple entries in a single category, the last entry submitted by the deadline will be considered, and the others will be ignored. Entries by multiple authors are allowed. No entries containing copyrighted materials (outside of Valve's IPs) will be considered. Materials (.DEM files, for example) may be requested to prove original authorship. The use of external software in the creation of entries is permitted in all categories. However, the Replay renderer MUST be used for initial TGA/WAV data if an external editor is used, OR if rendering an entry from within TF2. Video Preset "Maximum" MUST be used, regardless of whether you are rendering a movie from TF2 or raw TGAs and a .WAV. — Saxxy Awards page

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Voting

Francis the Talking France

On May 20, 2011, the Saxxy Awards submission period ended, and Francis the Talking France opened the official voting for the best videos.

At the Battle voting page, the user was given two videos of the selected category, and could vote for their preferred one. The given videos were randomly chosen, and new ones were selected after each vote. Voting was only available to steam accounts that own Team Fortress 2, and a given user could only vote a maximum of one hundred times per day. The Battle voting round of Saxxy Awards voting officially completed on Thursday, May 26th, 2011 at 4:30 pm Pacific standard time.

Update history

May 5, 2011 Patch (Replay Update)

• Launched the First Annual Saxxy Awards.

May 19, 2011 Patch

• Extended the Saxxy contest deadline to 11:59:59 PM GMT, Friday, May 20th, 2011

Trivia

• Francis the Talking France first appeared in an article titled Death of Adventure Games, written in 2000 by Erik Wolpaw, a Valve employee.

External links

• Team Fortress 2 - Saxxy Awards
• Saxxy Awards Voting