Head-2-Head-X / H2HX Awards

With the contest in the books, it's time to honour the performances we've seen in a bespoke rendition of H2HX Awards. These are much like our annual NE Awards but focus on things more specifically H2HX.

However, there is typically a noticeable overlap with several award categories with the year end awards, for example Best Ride Design will feature great nominees that we will also want to include in the NE Awards 2024. What we want to avoid however, is to water down the meaningfulness of the award by essentially handing it out twice: now and then.

We have therefore decided to distinguish H2HX-centric categories more clearly, specifically those that won't be part of the year end awards. They are:

For now, we want to honour those in the H2HX-specific categories first and foremost, and require your vote in the above poll to determine the winners. The poll will stay open for roughly a week. Make sure your vote counts, and best of luck to all nominees.

Thanks to all of you who have voted. We've received over 40 votes which is quite significant for a post contest awards voting. This gives us a sound result. Big congratulations to all winners, they are:

H2HX Award Winners

Best Losing Park The Yards

Best Match R4M2 DB vs LHC

Most Valuable Player alex

Rookie of the Year Ethan

Steal of the Draft dr dirt

Best Reviewer CedarPoint6

Best Plugin Use Constellations

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And in the following, the top three of these categories have now qualified for the NE Awards 2024.

NE Awards 2024 Pre-Qualification Results

Best Aesthetics Meccha Super Nintendo World Dambuster Home Video Presents: Buxom the Sunset Sorceress, and the Purple Haze at Castle Death

Best Architecture The Screameasy Meccha The Yards

Best Landscaping & Foliage Lostileth Sambhava's Rest Valley of the Kings

Best Ride Design Radio Park Tbilisi The Screameasy Cedar Point's Maverick

Best Park Concept The Screameasy Ol' Smokey's Showboat Meccha

Best Steel Coaster

Momentum from Millennium Discovery Museum

Banshee from Lostileth

The Purple Haze at Castle Death from from Dambuster Home Video Presents: Buxom the Sunset Sorceress, and the Purple Haze at Castle Death

Best Sound Design Valley of the Kings Murder in McAllan Hell

Best Wooden Coaster

Expedition Extinction from The Land Before The Land Before Time

Ringmaster from Ol' Smokey's Showboat

Blind Tiger from The Screameasy

Best Object Maker In:Cities spacek531 AmusementParker

Best Idea

Moving water in Ol' Smokey's Showboat

Working switch track in Millennium Discovery Museum

Cel-shaded objects in Super Nintendo World

There's some serious RCT in that table. Well done to all who have made it into the upcoming year-end awards. I would imagine quite a few of these will take their respective award home. But of course the year hasn't ended yet, and we hope to add a few more nominee worthy releases to our 2024 catalogue. Indeed the submission queue is pinging us for new parks every week.

Hard to argue with any of these winners, outstanding work again to all involved!