Thank you to everybody for the huge effort put in across the board on the weekend in costuming, roleplaying and the quality of games brought to the convention, and to the lovely Nikki for deciphering all the bad handwriting and counting the votes!
Without further ado:
Best Roleplayer 2009
Winner: Tigger Brunton
Congratulations Tigger, you have won $65 worth of nzLARPS games!
Runners Up: Zanny Anderson and Vanya Essin
Honourable Mention: Morgan Davie, Blair Purkiss, Craig Neilson and Adam Parsons
Best Costuming 2009
Winner: Zara Kinzett
Congratulations Zara, you have won your choice of a $50 Borders or Spotlight voucher!
Runners Up: Michael Andrews and Hannah Jackson
Honourable Mention: Jackie Brasfield, Kara Jensen, Derek Tomes, David Agnew, Zanny Anderson and Leong Wong
Best Written Game 2009
Winner: Bad Dream - The Hidden, by Vanya Essin, Gareth Sandford and Walter Hamer
Congratulations guys, you win four movie vouchers and a hamper of high sugar larping goodies to keep you going through your next weekend game (or post Chimera party!)
Runner Up: The Great Exhibition by Rowena Knill, Dave Luxton, Liz McCombe, Hamish Meads and Gary Freedman
Honourable Mention: St. Wolfgang’s Vampire Hunters (The Emergency Edition) by Matt Moore and Porl Bowdler, Spy Hard by Tigger Brunton and the Black Hart of Camelot by Ryan Paddy.
Best Roleplayer: The Great Exhibition
Winner: Adam Parsons (Captain James Vane/Hook)
Runner Up: Ryan Paddy (Peter Banning/Pan)
Honourable Mention: (to be posted as soon as I find the bit of paper it was written on!)
Best Costume: The Great Exhibition
Winner: Muppet Brown (Sherlock Holmes)
Runners Up: David Harrop (Alan Quatermain) and Erin Hockings (Oichi)
Honourable Mention: Alexcia Voudouris (Ayesha) and Zanny Anderson (Kalika)and one other (again, looking for the bit of paper it was on)
Best Roleplayer and Costume 2009 by Game
Bad Dreams - The Hidden
Roleplaying: Michael Andrew and Leong Wong
Costume: Leong Wong
The Curse of the Pharaoh
Roleplaying: Morgan Davie
Costume: Jackie Brasfield
The Nightmare Circle
Roleplaying: Jared Hansen
Costume: Jared Hansen
Spy Hard
Roleplaying: Daniel Edman
Costume: Kara Jensen and Porl Bowdler
But Nobody Loses An Eye!
Roleplaying: Blair Purkiss
Costume: Daphne Cohen
Knightshade: Circle of Sorcery
Roleplaying: Tigger Brunton
Costume: Zara Kinzett
Requiem
Roleplaying: Vanya Essin
Costume: Zanny Anderson
Jade Empire
Roleplaying: David Harrop
Costume: David Harrop
The Black Hart of Camelot
Roleplaying: Kara Jensen
Costume: Zara Kinzett
A Serpent of Ash
Roleplaying: Zanny Anderson
Costume: Zanny Anderson
Down and Out in Middenburg
Roleplaying: Tigger Brunton
Costume: Hannah Jackson
Evicting the Dragon
Roleplaying: Craig Neilson
Costume: Michael Andrew
St. Wolfgang’s Vampire Hunters
Roleplaying: Adam Parsons, Prema Cottingham and Hamish Meads
Costume: Zara Kinzett
The Final Voyage of the Mary Celeste
Roleplaying: Zanny Anderson
Costume: Zara Kinzett
The Summer Crisis
Roleplaying: Jason Farley
Costume: Craig Neilson
The Soap Opera Larp
Roleplaying: Lucy Brychkova and Morgan Davie
Costume: David Agnew