And the nominees are...

[valetoile]

Everyone should have received an email yesterday with a link to the voting. If you did not, give me your email address and I will add you to the registered voters. If you got the message through more than one email account, please only vote once. The link to the voting is here:

http://vote.austinimprov.org/dcballot.php?poll=aic01

And now, the nominees. We tried to have about five nominees in each category. In some cases there were close ties, so we included more, and in some cases there were three or four clear leaders. Everyone who has nominated by anyone should feel awesome, and I'll be sending out some emails to folks who didn't make it onto the ballot to let thme know that folks thought they were awesome too. In no particular order:

Best Female:
1, Shana Merlin
2. Kaci Beeler
3. Erika May
4, Tami Nelson

Best Male:
1. Bob McNichol
2. Shannon McCormick
3. Roy Janik

Best Light and Sound:
1. Jason Vines
2. Sara Farr
3. Andrew Lee
4. Dave Buckman
5. Cody Dearing

Best Realistic Scenes:
1. Bob McNichol
2. Kareem Badr
3. Rachel Madorsky
4. Tami Nelson
5. Dave Buckman

3. Best Absurd Scenes:
1. Arthur Simone
2. Chris Trew
3. Cody Dearing
4. Craig Kotfas

Most Fearless Improvisor:
1. Mike Joplin
2. Chris Trew
3. Jeremy Lamb
4. Kaci Beeler
5. Cody Dearing
6. Ann Wilson

Most Playful and Accepting:
1. Roy Janik
2. Valerie Ward
3. Kaci Beeler
4. Shana Merlin
5. Bill Stern

Most Improved:
1. Cody Dearing
2. Jason Vines
3. Lindsey Simmer
4. Michael Williams
5. Joel Keith

Best Characters:
1. Troy Miller
2. Erika May
3. Mike Joplin
4. Shannon McCormick
5. Mike Kinald
6. Tami Nelson

Best Host:
1. Roy Janik
2. Shannon McCormick
3. Michael Jastroch
4. Dave Buckman
5. Chris Trew

Best Musical Improvisor:
1. Shana Merlin
2. John Ratliff
3. Michael Brockman
4. Bill Stern
5. Monique Daviau

Most Underrated;
1. Valerie Ward
2. Matt Pollack
3. Monique Daviau
4. Justin York
5. Kareem Badr
6. Eric Heiberg
7. Amy McKenna
8. Mike Joplin
9. Michael Jastroch

Most Likely to Win This Award
1. Bryan Roberts
2. Sara Farr
3. Bob Apthorpe
4. Robin Goodfellow

Hardest Working for the Collective:
1. Asaf Ronen
2. Roy janik
3. Andy Crouch
4. Bob Apthorpe
5. Chris Trew
6. Kristin Firth

Best Teacher/Coach/Director:
1. Dave Buckman
2. Shana Merlin
3. Michael Jastroch
4. Asaf Ronen

Most Fashionable:
1. Kaci Beeler
2. Kacey Samiee
3. Valerie Ward
4. Tami Nelson
5. Kareem Badr
6. Frank Willmore

Hardest Working Troupe:
1. ColdTowne
2. Parallelogramophonograph
3. Girls Girls Girls

Best Marketing and Promotions:
1. ColdTowne
2. Parallelogramophonograph
3. Girls Girls Girls
4. Improv for Evil

Best Troupe:
1. Parallelogramophonograph
2. ColdTowne
3. Get Up
4. The Frank Mills
5. Available Cupholders

Best Sketch:
1. Backpack Picnic
2. Lovey and Lovey
3. Hoover's Blanket
4. P! Company
5. You're Fat

Best Ad-Hoc Team:
1. Buddy Daddy
2. Let's Rock!
3. Aw Shit
4. The Warm 'Em Ups
5. The Dark Bloodlords Harry Potter Players

Best New Troupe:
1. Starter Kit
2. Look Cookie
3. Midnight Society

Most Enjoyable Format:
1. Boys of Summer
2. After School Improv
3. Choose Your Own Adventure
4. 3-2-1-Kill
5. Stool Pigeon

Best Party House:
1. Orf Palace
2. Hoover's Evil Blanket
3. Maison McKenna
4. Dinosaur Moonbase One

Best Line:
1. "Son, for your birthday I crucified this duck." -Andy P.
2. "yo, i'm about to have this baby dawg." -Bryan Roberts
3. "Wow, onion squares? That was the fastest from conception to creation I've ever seen." -Michael Jastroch
4. "sushi?? that's the feeling i get when you rub my taint" -Erika May

Congratulations everyone on being so awesome!

[shando]

Congrats to everyone nominated and otherwise. Being in Philly this weekend just reinforced how special a thing we've got going on, which is to say nothing bad about the scene in Philly at all but to highlight how wonderfully anomalous our thing is. Let's hear it for Austin!

[Spaztique]

Nice job to everyone who got nominated, but...

... why wasn't I nominated for most improved?

I kind of expected to not get nominated for Most Underrated (despite how most of the improvisers listed are well-known), but doesn't anybody remember how much I sucked last year, or even a few months ago? Does that mean I still suck?

[TexasImprovMassacre]

Does that mean I still suck?

psh, grllllfriend...you best not be acting like that's true!

[kaci_beeler]

If anyone is interested....
here is the list of the nominees from last year's awards:
http://forum.austinimprov.com/viewtopic ... aic+awards

I'm still looking for who won what...I can remember a lot but not all.

This:
http://forum.austinimprov.com/viewtopic ... aic+awards
indicates that the full list might not have ever been posted...
ah well

[ChrisTrew.Com]

I was drunk when I voted.

[Aden]

I'm sad that a lot of the folks I nominated didn't get nominated.

BUT congrats to all of those who got enough nominations to be officially nominated! Way to get known and rek'nized!

[kaci_beeler]

I liked the three-fold style of nominating. When looking over the ballot I thought, "OH YEAH! This person! How could I forget??" so many times.
The mind boggles and reels after awhile, so much stuff happens every week.

We need an awesome member page with a little headshot gif for every improviser, like a giant cast-list page on the AIC website. Wouldn't that be awesome?
Maybe I should set up a photo booth at the banquet this weekend...
I just feel like the size and scope of the AIC is so large now (but still small and manageable in ways), wouldn't it be grand to see all those faces side-by-side?

[Justin D.]

I liked the three-fold style of nominating. When looking over the ballot I thought, "OH YEAH! This person! How could I forget??" so many times.
The mind boggles and reels after awhile, so much stuff happens every week.

We need an awesome member page with a little headshot gif for every improviser, like a giant cast-list page on the AIC website. Wouldn't that be awesome?

I was going to make a smartass remark by linking to this (which I guess I just did), but

Maybe I should set up a photo booth at the banquet this weekend...
I just feel like the size and scope of the AIC is so large now (but still small and manageable in ways), wouldn't it be grand to see all those faces side-by-side?

I love this idea.

[Justin D.]

Most Earless Improvisor:
1. Justin Davis

That's just mean. Then again, I do get to win an award this way.

[bradisntclever]

I'm still looking for who won what...I can remember a lot but not all.

I've got your back:

http://forum.austinimprov.com/viewtopic.php?t=2066

[Jeff]

Maybe I should set up a photo booth at the banquet this weekend...

aw, i'm getting sadder that i won't be there.

[valetoile]

Congrats to everyone who got nominated and everyone who didn't, because aren't we all awesome? I will be sending people notices of nominatinos they recieved that didn't make it onto the ballot as well, so don't go feeling all sorry for yourselves just yet. And there is even more love to come!

[ratliff]

We need an awesome member page with a little headshot gif for every improviser, like a giant cast-list page on the AIC website. Wouldn't that be awesome?

This is a really good idea. I still don't know the names of some of my favorite Chicago improvisers because their teams' websites were either badly outdated or nonexistent.

Maybe the ideal solution would be a wiki so that everyone could be responsible for maintaining his or her own information, with fields for headshot, past and present team affiliations, and upcoming shows.

[ratliff]

Nice job to everyone who got nominated, but...

... why wasn't I nominated for most improved?

I kind of expected to not get nominated for Most Underrated (despite how most of the improvisers listed are well-known), but doesn't anybody remember how much I sucked last year, or even a few months ago? Does that mean I still suck?

Oh, chill out, David. I didn't get nominated for that either, and I spent five weeks and a thousand bucks in Chicago trying to get better at this shit. Apparently you can't even buy a friggin' nomination.