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This is where it all started for the Golden Acorn Awards! With the inspiration of Matt Plotecher's Plato Awards, the GA Awards recognized those works of the Rangerphile community that were worthy of honor. This first awards ceremony was by far the hardest, as it was not only the longest with the fully separate International Categories but also the eligible works represented work from the past several years--we were playing catch-up.
One person I have to recognize as making the 2002 GA Awards possible is Rennod--he and I talked about the Awards and planned them together. He helped with organizing the event and getting the nominations and votes counted, along with acquiring the presentations and acceptance speeches and more things than I can even remember now. So when you think about how much you enjoy the Awards these days, remember that one Rangerphile besides me helped to bring these particular Awards into being.
The lessons I and the others learned from this initial year helped to shape what the GA Awards have become today. Btw, one reason we dropped the international awards was so we wouldn't make The JAM homeless, as his house was stuffed with nearly all the awards in the International categories ;-) Artwork was sparse for the 2002 effort, though graced by the wonderful acceptance speech artwork that Shelley Pleger did--which also serves as our background.
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