Well, the 2006 CY Awards have finally been held – a week later than expected – on the 1st of July (otherwise known as Maple Syrup and Mounties Day).

SW City and its assorted retinue of well-wishers and hangers-on managed to snag four of those coveted citrusy trophies, including a very special Lifetime Achievement Award (Best-Dressed Hotep), given to none other than our own Central District Governor SW Comit!

SW Chris snatched Best Building for his mind-blowing Back to the Future Recreation in East Ending, while Comit picked up Best Software for Alphaworld Enhanced, doing very well for someone attending a wedding (some complete twit accepted both of his awards for him – whoever gave that idiot a presenter job, anyway?)

And while Goober King vehemently denies being affiliated with SW City in any way, the fact that most of his regular guests just happen to SW’ian allows me to plant a green-and-blue-with-crosshairs flag on his Best Media Presentation award.

Other award recipients of special mention are the wacky crew of Off World who grabbed Best Town, Stacee getting Best Object Design (for her sterling work renovating Active Worlds’ biggest blocked drain- er, I mean AWGate ^_^;;) AND a third of the Best Leader statue (the head and right arm), Strike Rapier being awarded Best Bot Design for his weapons of mass surveillance, and of course who can forget Lensman, dreamer2 and tunablues’ Lifetime awards.

Looking forward to next year – hopefully it’ll get done without any false starts this time. *menaces Chrispeg*

Due to the new 4.1 world servers not being all-that-fit for the masses, the CY awards unfortunately crashed and burned today. It’s been postponed, a date to be announced later.

Today’s the big day 😀
After the 2005 disappearance, the CYs are back for their 8th awards ceremony. Always AW’s biggest event of the year, usually peeking around 300 people, so you don’t wanna miss it! Hope to see you all there. It starts at 8PM VRT.

SW City will be hosting its traditional pre-show party 2 hours before the show (6PM VRT) at the same ol’ spot – Uncle Nitro’s Bar and Grilllift motorcycle used (AW 2154S 3572E).

To go with the AW 4.1 release, AWE has been updated as well. Version 1.4 sports 2 major features – an overhauled avatar list with 4.1 functions, and the world’s object sets cleaned up for performance.

As always, you can pick it up at the AWE page.