The Gameops.com Best of Awards
are given in six categories.
Best Mascot:
The mascot whose work in was creative and enthusiastic, serving
as a valuable tool for their team and in their community.
All sports team characters and college mascots are eligible.
Best Act:
The touring act or halftime show that excels in providing quality
entertainment for your fans. Touring acts, halftime acts and
non-mascot performers are considered. Consider drawing power,
quality, cooperation of the act, media, and value.
Best
Vendor:
The provider of quality services or products that are most
helpful for game operations. Consider service, products offered,
and value. (Award presented 2001-2006)
Best
Game Promotion:
What game night promotion was most effective and creative.
An example would be President's Night Game where a team builds
an game day promotion around a theme like "Presidents",
perhaps handing out US flags, and having namesakes like "George
Washington, Richard Nixon, and George Bush" dropping the
puck for a game held on President's Day. Consider creativity,
entertainment value, media exposure, drawing power, and execution
of the operations.
Best
Contest or On-field
Promotion:
What promotion or contest is the most entertaining. For example,
a "Chuck-a-puck" contest. This is a repeatable on-field
promotion that is held in-game. Consider entertainment value,
creativity, local connections, sponsorship possibilities, cost,
and repeatability.
Best
Team Operations:
Which team is doing the best job in their game operations and
game presentation. We level the playing field by considering
budget constraints to minor league teams. Consider creativity,
value to fans, overcoming sport and budget limitations, quality
of presentation, and attention to detail.
Best Team Introductions:
Which team introduction is the best produced, executed, fresh and innovative. Consider creativity, value to fans, execution, quality of presentation, fan interaction and attention to detail. We level the playing field by considering budget constraints to minor league teams. The category will consider focus primarily on the standard introduction (opening night variations will be considered, but the focus is on the standard game production). Due to the category we will also rely heavily on video reviews (YouTube, etc.) (Starting in 2008)
Best Entertainment Group:
Performance Group whose work was fresh, creative and interesting, serving as a valuable tool for their team and in their community. Providing quality entertainment and additional value for fans. All sports team performance groups are eligible. Consider quality, uniqueness, and marketplace value. (Starting in 2008)
Gameops.com canvasses a panel
of selected industry leaders for our "Best of
Awards". Their names are not used to encouraged
them to add as much information as possible. Their
collective input is considered when building the final
award selections.
Our panel consists of active leaders in the game operations
community and people who have the opportunity to see a range
of teams and leagues. We do allow our panel to nominate your
own act or services, but of course that bias will be considered
in the process. We also limit any awards to products and services
offered by Gameops.com, or we make note of it.
Thanks to our panel and congratulations
to the winners.
