Author Topic: The 2014 BYOAC User Choice Awardees are... (Read 3261 times)

UCA · « **on:** March 01, 2015, 10:40:05 am »

The polls are closed and the votes have been electronically tallied. It's official and the results are in. The 2014 Build Your Own Arcade Controls User Choice Awards are complete.

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.

And now, without further ado the BYOAC 2014 UCA Winners

The user voted best fullsize multi of 2014 is:

Markc74's Blip

The user voted best fullsize dedicated of 2014 is:

Yotsuya's Super Spacefortress Macross

The user voted best hardware of 2014 is:

Andy's Ultimarc Ultimate I/O Board

The user voted best small multi of 2014 is:

JohnRT's Outrun

The user voted best pedestal of 2014 is:

Le Chuck's Game of Thrones

The user voted best small dedicated of 2014 is:

Shrunkenmaster's Asteroids

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

Le Chuck · « **Reply #1 on:** March 01, 2015, 11:02:13 am »

In order to out the gorilla in the room I'd like to say a heartfelt congratulations to Yotsuya, Markc74, Andy, JohnRT, and Shrunkenmaster who all deservedly won their categories. Especially Shrunkenmaster who I have no doubt would have carried his category regardless. As for pedestal, I'm not so sure mine would be here if things had gone differently, but I appreciate the support that this community continues to show and I look forward to seeing what amazing projects this next year holds.

johnrt · « **Reply #2 on:** March 01, 2015, 11:11:33 am »

And I would like to thank everyone who has voted for me, and everybody else who has contributed to the build.

It's been a fun ride! Cheers everybody!

And congratulations also to Markc74, Yotsuya, Andy, Le Chuck and Shrunkenmaster!

wp34 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 01, 2015, 11:28:01 am »

Congratulations to the winners. Another great year in the books. It is awesome to see the quality and innovation bar being lifted again this year.

BorgDog · « **Reply #4 on:** March 01, 2015, 12:00:46 pm »

Congrats all! Awesome stuff, it's always a lot of fun watching other peoples builds (spend far to much time doing it), and the really detailed ones are most inspiring.

Malenko · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2015, 12:59:25 pm »

other than voting for myself (pretty sure I was my only vote, lol) and Chucks (I voted for LT) , I picked all the right winners!

Congrats to all, it was quite a great year for the hobby in terms of builds last year.

yotsuya · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2015, 01:37:03 pm »

Wow, what an honor!

I'd like to congratulate all the nominees and builders for creating works that help further our hobby. I've always said I think we're in a Golden Age of building now, and every single nominated project shows that.

I want to repost this, because it truly shows how projects can be a collaborative project while still retaining elements of your original vision. I feel like I fulfilled what I wanted to with my project, but it certainly evolved with the feedback to these people. For all those builders out there mulling their first projects, it pays to listen.

If I see any of you guys at ZapCon, the first beer's on me.

wp34 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2015, 02:02:02 pm »

Congratulations yotsuya. Macross is one of my favorite builds and represents the type of project I aspire to.

Well deserved.

Vigo · « **Reply #8 on:** March 01, 2015, 03:03:43 pm »

Absolutely well deserved, guys!

Quote from: Le Chuck on March 01, 2015, 11:02:13 am

As for pedestal, I'm not so sure mine would be here if things had gone differently,

Whether it would have won or not is irrelevant to me. The honest truth is that it is in every way about as unique and well executed as anything on here. It earned it's spot.

DeLuSioNal29 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 01, 2015, 03:49:27 pm »

Congrats to all! The hard work on ALL of the projects showed but these were the "cream of the crop". Can't wait to see what 2015 brings!

DeLuSioNaL29

Le Chuck · « **Reply #10 on:** March 01, 2015, 04:28:13 pm »

Quote from: Vigo on March 01, 2015, 03:03:43 pm

Absolutely well deserved, guys!

Quote from: Le Chuck on March 01, 2015, 11:02:13 am
As for pedestal, I'm not so sure mine would be here if things had gone differently,

Whether it would have won or not is irrelevant to me. The honest truth is that it is in every way about as unique and well executed as anything on here. It earned it's spot.

Thanks bro!

<edited because I can't uses the quotes so good

>

markc74 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2015, 07:49:34 am »

Wow - thanks all! It's very humbling to think that people like the cabinet. A lot of builds this year have been pretty mind blowing so I'm just flattered to be part of it all.

Of course - now the itch is back I want to build a pinball table, and a modern style LCD based cabinet (boo! hiss!), and maybe a vertical cab.

Thanks to everyone who supported and offered advice in my build thread, and thanks again for those that voted.

Malenko · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2015, 08:00:07 am »

Quote from: markc74 on March 02, 2015, 07:49:34 am

Wow - thanks all! It's very humbling to think that people like the cabinet. A lot of builds this year have been pretty mind blowing so I'm just flattered to be part of it all.

Of course - now the itch is back I want to build a pinball table, and a modern style LCD based cabinet (boo! hiss!), and maybe a vertical cab.

Thanks to everyone who supported and offered advice in my build thread, and thanks again for those that voted.

If I wasnt nominated, I would have voted for yours. Its such a great project. Ive already started BSB V2.0

EMDB · « **Reply #13 on:** March 02, 2015, 08:42:39 am »

Congratulations to all the winners

I was already proud to be nominated.

opt2not · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2015, 02:26:50 pm »

Congratulations Awardees!

harveybirdman · « **Reply #15 on:** March 02, 2015, 05:53:22 pm »

Congratulations to this year's winners, your work is nothing short of inspiring.

Generic Eric · « **Reply #16 on:** March 02, 2015, 06:03:51 pm »

Another great year! Kudos to the nominees, Awardees, and especially the UCA staff.

ChanceKJ · « **Reply #17 on:** March 03, 2015, 12:15:54 am »

congrats guys! well deserved wins all around.

elvis · « **Reply #18 on:** March 04, 2015, 02:29:28 am »

Awesome bunch of projects this year. Congratulations to all of the winners.

edekoning · « **Reply #19 on:** March 04, 2015, 06:44:36 am »

What amazing builds we had last year! A big round of

for all the winners!

n3wt0n · « **Reply #20 on:** March 06, 2015, 06:52:00 am »

Amazing builds! Congratulations to all the winners this year.

severdhed · « **Reply #21 on:** March 06, 2015, 11:22:35 am »

Congratulations to all of the winners, there were some great looking cabinets created last year. I feel honored just to have been nominated.


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