Philly Geek Awards: Recap and Thank Yous

August 22, 2011 in Events,Geeks,Philadelphia with 11 Comments

There’s an impossible amount of thank yous owed. To all of our sponsors, especially to Jill and the rest of the The Academy of Natural Sciences gang, little would have been possible without your help and support. To Doogie Horner, our hysterical MC, you set the standard to which the rest of our fabulous presenters followed. You were all amazing.

I’m still trying down links to all the various major and minor media outlets who gave us coverage. I think I might have to give up. I know y’all were just doing your jobs, but we appreciate it so much, we truly do. (Who picked up a copy of the Philadelphia Daily News this weekend? We made the front cover!) Finally, to all of our 400 or so attendees, we were happy to have each and every single one of you there. We had a blast and we hope you did too. We’re expecting professional photos later in the week, as well as a Slideshare of the deck we used during the presentation.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

In the meantime, please enjoy a Flickr gallery of my personal photos.

Like Eric had said his is closing speech, we need you to help us improve next year’s awards. Be on the lookout for our plans with the 2012 awards and make sure to mark your calendars and pitch your ideas for categories and nominees. See below for a list of winners from our inaugural awards show.

Best New Local Startup
Presenter: JP Toto
Winner: LaunchRock

Outstanding Achievement in Fashion & Lifestyle
Nominees: Cadence Wrist Watch Co. & Mayfaire Moon
Presenter: Johnny Bilotta of Two Guys on Beer
Winner: Cadence Wrist Watch Co.

#SPORTS!: Outstanding Achievement in Ludicrous Displays Last Night
Nominees: Bring Your A’s Game, Pennant iPad app, PhillieBot
Presenter: Sarah Baicker of Comcast SportsNet
Winner: PhillieBot

Best Local Viral Video
Nominees: Indie God of War / Zelda ’87, Mural Arts’ Proposal Video
Presenter: Doogie Horner
Winner: Indie God of War / Zelda ‘87

Outstanding Achievement in Local Film Production (Short Films)
Nominees: Beating Hearts: Matthew Garrett, Corbin: Brent Weichsel, No Escape: Daniel Pennington and Nick Dronick, Manatees: Minka
Presenters: Dan Tabor of Geekadelphia and Erin Mulgrew (Actress)
Winner: Beating Hearts

Outstanding Achievement in Local Film Production (Feature Length)
Nominees: Cost of a Soul: Sean Kirkpatrick, Calendar Girl: Derek Lindeman, The Romantic: Michael Heneghan, 99% Sure: Pat Taggart
Presenters: Dan Tabor of Geekadelphia and Erin Mulgrew (Actress)
Winner: The Romantic

Best New Vodcast / Web Television Show
Nominees: Living in 8-Bits, Message with a Bottle, Underbelly
Presenters: Leah R. Kauffman of Phrequency.com & Conrad Benner of StreetsDept
Winner: Underbelly

Best New Podcast
Nominees: Cinedork, PoemTalk, Talkadelphia, Social Interruption, Story Shuffle
Presenters: Leah R. Kauffman of Phrequency.com & Conrad Benner of StreetsDept
Winner: Talkadelphia

Outstanding Achievement in Geek / Techie Local PR & Social Media
Nominees: Alexandra McKechnie, Annie Heckenberger, Caroline Bean, Matt Vlahos, Megan Smith
Presenters: Mikey Il and Allie Harcharek of Geekadelphia
Winner: Annie Heckenberger

Outstanding Achievement in Geek Culture Journalism
Presenter: Christopher Wink of Technically Philly
Winner: StreetsDept

Best Geek Themed Noms & Beverages
Presenter: Collin Flatt of The Feast
Winner: E=MC Beered by Yards Brewing

Philly Geek Awards Prom King & Queen Ceremony
(Surprise category for best-dressed of the evening.)
Presenter: Eric Smith and Tim Quirino of Geekadelphia
Winner: Melissa Morris Ivone and husband Robert Ivone

Outstanding Achievement in Local Comic Art
Nominees: Tony Trov & Johnny Zito, Box Brown, Christine Larsen
Presenter: Jo Pincushion of Geekadelphia
Winner: Tony Trov & Johnny Zito

Outstanding Achievement in Appealing to Geeks in Arts & Culture
Nominees: Mega Bad Movie Night (Academy of Natural Sciences), National Constitution Center (Spies & Traitors Exhibition), Philadelphia Science Festival (Various Institutions),
Presenter: Britt Miller
Winner: Philadelphia Science Festival

Outstanding Achievement in Locally Developed iOS Applications
Nominees: Dex (Mike Zornek), Philly Beer Week, Pulse (Cipher Prime), Tap DJ (Laan Brothers), Wordsurge (Peter D’Orsi)
Presenter: Scott Wasserman of appRenaissance
Winner: Tap DJ

Outstanding Achievement to the Philadelphia Indie Game Scene
Nominees: Burst Entertainment for Developing Warlord Battlegrounds, Cipher Prime for Developing Pulse, Port 127 for Developing Hipster City Cycle
Presenter: Chris Grant of Joystiq
Winner: Pulse by Cipher Prime

Best New Annual Local Event
Nominees: Mega Bad Movie Night (Academy of Natural Sciences), Philadelphia Tech Week (Technically Media), Philadelphia Science Festival (Various Institutions), Philadelphia Type-In (Mike McGettigan), TEDxPhilly
Presenter: HughE Dillon of Philly Chit Chat
Winner: Philly Tech Week

Best New Blog
Nominees: Constitution Daily (National Constitution Center, Happy Cog, Technically Media), DrinkPhilly, KeyPulp (Jill Ivey, Allison Krumm, Andrew Thompson, Joe Ross & Ross Curie), Message with a Bottle (Chris Illuminati), Tek Lado (Liz Spikol & Mel Gomez)
Presenter: Anna Goldfarb of Shmitten Kitten
Winners: Drink Philly & (by popular user-submitted demand) Naked Philly

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11 Responses to “Philly Geek Awards: Recap and Thank Yous”

krisis August 22, 2011 at 1:42 pm #

I don’t know that I’ve ever had that much fun with a crowd of that caliber of humor and hotness ever before in Philly. I request – nay, demand! – more dress-up geek events.
Melissa August 22, 2011 at 1:52 pm #

I’m with Peter on that one! Thanks for putting together such a fantabulous event that makes me want to get as involved as possible in the wonderful things happening in this great city of ours. You all rock!
Linzy August 22, 2011 at 5:22 pm #

Photobomb’d.

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