The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...

[UCA]

The polls are closed and the votes have been electronically tallied.  It's official and the results are in.  The 2012 Build Your Own Arcade Controls User Choice Awards are complete. 

Please check out the voting polls for a breakdown of how the runners up fared.

2012 Small Cabinet Voting Poll
2012 Cocktail Voting Poll
2012 Hardware Voting Poll
2012 Software Voting Poll
2012 Fullsize Cabinet Voting Poll

The UCA board would like to take a moment to thank everyone who voted, nominated, or just stopped by to take a look at this year's batch of awesome projects.

This year two users were nominated and confirmed as having made an outstanding contribution to the forum.  They are ever helpful and ever present, and the BYOAC community has profited from their advice, wit, and convivial manner.  We'd like to recognize PL1 and Badmouth as the best forum members of the year.  Way to go guys, you share a high honor.

And now, without further ado the BYOAC 2012 UCA Winners

The user voted best fullsize arcade cabinet build of 2012 is:

Nephasth's Two-Headed Beast


The user voted best cocktail cabinet build of 2012 is:

Sjaak's Pac Man Battle Royale Cabinet


The user voted best small arcade cabinet build of 2012 is:

Le Chuck's Star Wars Micro


The user voted best hardware contribution of 2012 is:
CraftyMech's SLG


The user voted best software contribution of 2012 is:
Nitz's coding work on the TRON in game switching


Please take a second and congratulate these awesome members the next time you run into them on the threads. 

[Le Chuck]

Thanks everybody!  This hobby and this community have really added to my life in positive ways.  I'm honored that my project garnered such praise, especially with the awesome set of small builds this year to go up against.  Congrats to all the nominees!

[DaOld Man]

Congratulations to all!! 

[DaOld Man]

Thanks everybody!  This hobby and this community have really added to my life in positive ways.  I'm honored that my project garnered such praise, especially with the awesome set of small builds this year to go up against.  Congrats to all the nominees!

Congratulations LeChuck!! Great job on the Star Wars mini cab! 

[Jumpman64]

So many great builds to vote for on some of these.  You guys really set the bar high 

Congrats to the winners, and all who were nominated!   

[rrcade]

congrats

[Nephasth]

Congrats LeChuck! Your miniaturizing of SW's controls still impresses me! Now if I could miniaturize my hands... Great work man!

Congrats Sjaak! Amazing attention to detail in replicating the Battle Royale! Right down to the software. Very impressive!

Congrats CraftyMech! I love the miniSLG, and so do many others! I can't wait to see what other kind of hardware you cook up in the future!

Congrats Nitz! You tackled a hardware issue with your coding expertise!

And congrats to all of the nominees, you've all done excellent work!

Here's to more innovation in 2013!

[thatpurplestuff]

Excellent work everybody!

[CraftyMech]

Congrats to everyone! 

Nephasth that is one amazing cab!

[Louis Tully]

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[Dawgz Rule]

Amazing stuff. Congrats to all. 

[ark_ader]

Congratulations to the winners.   

[jimdeprado]

Congratulations to everybody.  Excellent work done by all.

Jim

[smalltownguy]

Grats errbody. 


Builders take 2013 off because OND says that time machine thingy he's been working on will be done. 

Pretty sure they'll create a new award for that cab. The Ondy.