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Title: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: UCA on February 17, 2013, 12:28:21 pm
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 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129986.0.html)
2012 Cocktail Voting Poll (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129985.0.html)
2012 Hardware Voting Poll (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129988.0.html)
2012 Software Voting Poll (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129984.0.html)
2012 Fullsize Cabinet Voting Poll (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,129987.0.html)

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:
(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=276487)
Nephasth's Two-Headed Beast (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,108719.msg1313058.html#msg1313058)


The user voted best cocktail cabinet build of 2012 is:
(http://www.xs4all.nl/~hansolo1/royale/pmbr2.jpg)
Sjaak's Pac Man Battle Royale Cabinet (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,119032.0.html)


The user voted best small arcade cabinet build of 2012 is:
(http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr155/vonjett/Star%20Wars%20Mini%20Build/SWMicroLit.jpg)
Le Chuck's Star Wars Micro (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,117874.0.html)


The user voted best hardware contribution of 2012 is:
CraftyMech's SLG (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,128970.msg1318001.html#msg1318001)


The user voted best software contribution of 2012 is:
Nitz's coding work on the TRON in game switching (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,117395.0/all.html)


Please take a second and congratulate these awesome members the next time you run into them on the threads. 
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: Le Chuck on February 17, 2013, 12:42:32 pm
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!
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: DaOld Man on February 17, 2013, 01:20:59 pm
Congratulations to all!!  :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: DaOld Man on February 17, 2013, 01:22:50 pm
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!  :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: Jumpman64 on February 17, 2013, 10:27:04 pm
So many great builds to vote for on some of these.  You guys really set the bar high  :notworthy:

Congrats to the winners, and all who were nominated!   :applaud:
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: rrcade on February 17, 2013, 10:38:22 pm
congrats
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: Nephasth on February 17, 2013, 11:27:05 pm
Congrats LeChuck! Your miniaturizing of SW's controls still impresses me! Now if I could miniaturize my hands... Great work man! :applaud:

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

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! :applaud:

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

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

Here's to more innovation in 2013! :cheers:
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: thatpurplestuff on February 17, 2013, 11:48:47 pm
Excellent work everybody!
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: CraftyMech on February 18, 2013, 02:18:59 am
Congrats to everyone!  :cheers:

Nephasth that is one amazing cab!
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: Louis Tully on February 18, 2013, 07:37:35 pm
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Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: Dawgz Rule on February 18, 2013, 07:52:30 pm
Amazing stuff. Congrats to all. 
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: ark_ader on February 18, 2013, 07:58:42 pm
Congratulations to the winners.   :applaud:

Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: jimdeprado on February 19, 2013, 08:11:05 am
Congratulations to everybody.  Excellent work done by all.

Jim
Title: Re: The 2012 BYOAC UCA Awardees are...
Post by: smalltownguy on February 21, 2013, 12:56:37 pm
Grats errbody.  :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:


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

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