GMA Voting Procedures and Awards
Voting Criteria
Each entry will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Innovation,
Production Quality/ Execution, Entertainment value. Judges will vote on a scale
of 1-10 in each criterion – 30 being the maximum score allowed. While for the
most part self-explanatory, the following are guidelines to use when judging
each criterion:
• Innovation: How ground breaking and creative is the idea? How imaginative is the piece? Is it a new idea? Or, a new creative spin on an old idea?
• Production Quality/Execution: How good does the feature look and sound? Did the final product come across well? Was
it cleanly produced?
• Entertainment Value: Overall effectiveness/enjoyment of the piece.
First round judges will write down the scores for their top three choices.
Scores will be tabulated and finalists determined based on these results.
First-round GMA judging of all categories except “Best Overall Video Display”
will take place, through the mail, approximately one month prior to the annual
IDEA conference. First-round judging for the “Best Overall Video Display” will
take place during special breakout sessions at IDEA’s annual conference.
Winners from each of IDEA’s six subdivisions (Baseball, Basketball, Football,
Hockey, Minor League and University) will be presented to the general
membership for final voting. All of IDEA's Active and Allied organizations that
are in good standing are eligible to be first-round judges. Each organization
shall receive only one set of voting tapes and one ballot for submission. Organizations are NOT allowed to vote for
their own submissions in the first round of judging.
Following first-round voting, the GMA Committee will then review the entries
for any possible rule infractions, or other discrepancies. Following a GMA
Committee conference call to settle any issues, a final ballot will be produced
by the Executive Director of IDEA.
Final voting will then take place during general sessions at the Annual IDEA
Conference, with all Active and Allied member organizations in attendance
receiving ONE vote per organization.
Awards
GMA trophies will be presented to the first place winners in each of the eleven award categories. (In addition, six additional awards will be
presented in the "Best Overall Video Display" category, awarded to
the winner in each of IDEA's six subdivisions.) In the event of a tie, each
organization will receive a trophy.
Replica GMA trophies will be made available for purchase
after the awards are announced. For more information, please contact IDEA World Headquarters or visit the Resources for Award Recipients page.
For a list of all current award categories for the upcoming competition
year, please refer to the Awards Categories page. If you are an Active IDEA member in good standing interested in entering, please review the Entry Information page.
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