The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite

:honeybee: The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite

Welcome to The Trovers, an award show that’s created by the communities, from the communities, and for the communities we impact. Debuting alongside the Tower Unite: Player Testimonials 2025, this award show is the first of its kind to have both nominations and votes from its viewers and its panel members.

This award show will occur annually on February 11th, but it may not always feature Tower Unite. In this award show, there are three different sections, each of which will appear in the order they are shown here.

:medal_sports: Award Sections

:hammer_and_wrench: Condo Admins

For those that raised their hand to say they do want to help the biggest unofficial community projects, these people in Tower Unite are the ones that help make all of this and my other events possible.

Award Categories

The Giving Tree

CONDO ADMIN AND PANEL VOTED

For your selflessness and collaborative efforts in helping foster an exceptional working environment to create extraordinary events, this award is dedicated to you. Your knowledge is vital, and your time spent sharing it with the team invaluable.

Clutch Shooter

CONDO ADMIN AND PANEL VOTED

There is always a time crunch when it comes to events like the screenshot condo, and one of my favorite things about working as a team is that there are always those that come in clutch when we need them the most. This award is dedicated to the most clutch shooter who is able to turn a monstrously sized build plan into action when we need it the most.

MVP

CONDO ADMIN AND PANEL VOTED

When people think of the Condo Admins, they think of you because of your exceptional contributions to the team in various different ways. No matter what the event is, you’re always looking to contribute in some way shape or form. You, despite everything, prove to be an essential part of the team. You are just that damn good.

:house_with_garden: Condo Builders (aka Creative Builders)

Dedicated to those that express their creativity in unparalleled ways, these people in the Tower Unite community are the ones who are pushing Tower Unite to its limits and beyond with each build aiming to break the mold of what is possible.

Award Categories

Hidden Gem

COMMUNITY AND PANEL VOTED

Not all of the best builders are always showcased in contests or even channels. However, they continue to create, inspire, and do more; this award is dedicated to them.

Peak Performer

COMMUNITY AND PANEL VOTED

For those that go above and beyond to prove what is capable in Tower Unite, this award is dedicated to you. Your builds are both impressive and an utter shock as to what is possible in Tower Unite.

:ringer_planet: Event Organizers

Dedicated to those that help bring the unite in Tower Unite, these people in the community are the ones that are responsible for hosting various different events such as talk shows, concerts, movie nights, photo shoots, and more. There are multiple awards to hand out in this section and this is the main event.

Award Categories

Comeback Crown

PANEL VOTED ONLY

Running an event is not easy and can be extremely demotivating when people don’t attend your events. However, everybody loves to see an underdog and to see them succeed at that. Nothing is more compelling than to watch an event go from near closure to becoming one of the talks of the town. This award is dedicated to you for not throwing in the towel no matter how often you may have considered it.

Rising Star

PANEL VOTED ONLY

Being an event organizer is quite challenging, and making unique creative events is even more difficult. However, members of Tower Unite continue to innovate despite all the obstacles that may enter their pathway. This award is dedicated to you for your continuous rise to fame and stardom while always looking for new ways to change the game altogether.

Media Monarch

COMMUNITY AND PANEL VOTED

From movie nights to concerts, you always find a way to innovate new experiences with media players. Smashing through the ceilings, you take your experiences from the screens to the stars. This award is dedicated to you and your crown as the Media Monarch.

Best Community Event Series of 2024

COMMUNITY AND PANEL VOTED

Uniting the community together in one way or another is a challenge on its own; committing your time, efforts, and self to an event series is a tremendous feat. This award is dedicated to you. Thank you for your resilient effort in bringing the community together and continuing to put the unite in Tower Unite.

Best Community Event of 2024

COMMUNITY AND PANEL VOTED

For uniting the community together in ways never seen before, creating everlasting memories that will ring forever, this award is dedicated to you. Thank you for your committed effort in bringing the community together and putting the unite in Tower Unite.

:tada: Event Information

:clipboard: The Panel

The panel consists of 5 members and 3 backup panelists. If a panelist is both a nominee and makes it as a finalist, a backup panelist will take their place to prevent any conflicts of interest. More information of who specifically is on the panel will be shared at a later date as we prepare the graphic.

The panel has a 25% weight on the total vote, meaning that each panelist’s vote is worth 5% of the total vote count. The other 75% of the total vote is determined by the community votes alone.

:ballot_box: Nominations

While the panel has nominated a select number of players, members of the community are also able to nominate players for an award.

Nominations are now CLOSED as of 2025-01-12T01:00:00Z. Thank you for participating!

:checkered_flag: Finalists

Based on nominations, there will four finalists in all award categories. The Top 4 most voted nominees will be featured with both a graphic and a video showcasing their work later at both the award show itself and on the live streamed video feed.

Finalist votes are open NOW until 2025-02-11T01:00:00Z.

:trophy: The Awards + Prizing

In addition to having bragging rights, there will be a workshop modeled gold trophy for the award winners, silver trophy for the finalists, and bronze trophy for the panel-added nominees where applicable—each of which will have the award category, and their Steam name engraved on it.

NOTE: If a community-voted (write-in) nominee makes it as a finalist for any given category, they too will receive both the bronze and silver trophy for that respective category.

:calendar: Important Dates & Times

  • Award nominations are now CLOSED as of 2025-01-12T01:00:00Z. Thank you for participating!
  • Finalist votes are open NOW until 2025-02-11T01:00:00Z.
  • The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite will debut on 2025-02-12T01:00:00Z.
  • Once all awards have been handed out, we will wrap up the show with the newly released Tower Unite: Player Testimonials 2025.

Conclusion / TL;DR

  • The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite is the first of its kind to have both nominations and votes from its viewers and its panel members.
  • It will debut on 2025-02-12T01:00:00Z alongside Tower Unite: Player Testimonials 2025
  • The award show features Event Organizers, Condo Builders, and my Condo Admins
  • Workshop trophies are given to winners, finalists, and nominees

Finalist votes are available here until 2025-02-11T01:00:00Z

Good luck and have fun! We’ll see you soon. :saluting_face:

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I wish the best of luck to everyone! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

:tada: CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL FINALISTS

You’ve made it to the last leg of the award show, and everyone has voted! All categories have been accounted for, and below are the finalists in each section and category in no particular order.

:hammer_and_wrench: Condo Admin Finalists

For those that raised their hand to say they do want to help the biggest unofficial community projects, these people in Tower Unite are the ones that help make all of this and my other events possible

Clutch Shooter Award

  • DocFortuna
  • GoopGoop
  • Aviarius
  • Cat

The Giving Tree Award

  • DocFortuna
  • GateTheCat
  • Mid
  • Aviarius

MVP Award

  • DocFortuna
  • WingSilent
  • Aviarius
  • Cat

:house_with_garden: Creative Builders (aka Condo Builders)

Dedicated to those that express their creativity in unparalleled ways, these people in the Tower Unite community are the ones who are pushing Tower Unite to its limits and beyond with each build aiming to break the mold of what is possible.

Hidden Gem

Peak Performer

:ringer_planet: Events & Event Organizers

Dedicated to those that help bring the unite in Tower Unite, these people in the community are the ones that are responsible for hosting various different events such as talk shows, concerts, movie nights, photo shoots, and more. There are multiple awards to hand out in this section and this is the main event.

Media Monarch

  • OuTSMoKE (Flashback Cinema Events)
  • Fenrir (Fenrir’s Friday Films)
  • Pixel (Cartoon Couch)
  • Studio Mercy (Various Concerts)

Best Community Event Series of 2024

  • Karaoke Night by BonnieDiane
  • Pixel Island by aura
  • Monthly Community Screenshot (Screenshot Condo) by Kirbyrocket
  • The Bone Zone by @The_Lich (+ Others)

Best Community Event of 2024

  • GLASS Concert by Studio Mercy
  • Spooktoberfest by Meta
  • The Catsack Games 2024 by GateTheCat
  • Miku Expo in Tower Unite (MEITU) by @acupoffelicity (& the MEITU team)

:thinking: So what’s next?

Well, the original post has been updated to have the voting form for the finalists! You can also find that form at the bottom of this post. I’m sure as both a finalist and a viewer that there’s a lot of questions to be had. So, here’s a nice handy-dandy FAQ section catered just towards you

:question: Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q)

Finalists F.A.Q.

I’m a finalist but I can’t attend the show. Is that going to be an issue?

No. As long as I or any other panel member can reach out to you in the case that you do win, that’s not going to be an issue.

Is there anything needed from me if I’m a finalist?

Yes. All finalists will need to have a portrait of their player model sent to me in some way, shape, or form. If you haven’t already been sent information about the portraits, you’ll find more details available within your DMs here on the PixelTail Forums.

In addition, please note the following:

  • If you are an EVENT ORGANIZER, we will need to tour your condo again if you have no available video footage for us to use when showcasing your event during the show.

Don’t worry, there’s more than one person grabbing footage if you specifically don’t want me to record anything.

  • If you are a CREATIVE BUILDER and your builds are NOT on the Steam workshop, we will need to tour your condo(s) to showcase your work.

Oh cool I made it! Wait, am I allowed to vote?

Absolutely yes. In fact, I want you to vote. Every vote counts, and your vote is just as important as everyone else’s.

Can I vote for myself as a finalist?
Yes. I’m not judging you, and nobody can even prove it if you did anyway. To be honest, I don’t even blame you if you do. If you’re that good and believe you’ve earned the right to vote for yourself, it’s your prerogative. Just don’t tell anybody that you did vote for yourself if you value any sort of principle.

General F.A.Q.

Who are the panelists for the award show?

The graphic showcasing the panelists for each award category is not done, but know that these are your panelists:

Primary Panelists

  • Kirbyrocket*
  • Rosybliss
  • Gate*
  • Biscuit
  • pinguin

Backup Panelists

  • Aviarius
  • Plasma
  • WingSilent

* = Subject to swapping with a backup due to eligibility for an award

Am I able to edit my vote after submitting it?

Yes. So as long as you’re signed-in, you should be able to change your vote at any time until votes have closed.

Finalist votes are available here until 2025-02-11T01:00:00Z

Good luck and have fun! We’ll see you all at the show :saluting_face:

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Hi there, I just wanna give a quick head-up- Although I am on MEITU staff, I am not the main event planner of Miku Expo 2024. Felicity aka @acupoffelicity is the main event planner.

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Noted! I honestly wasn’t sure which one of you was the main host as I just searched for the name Felicity and tagged the first username I saw. Thanks for the clarification! :muscle:

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Update: apparently there was a write-in section available in the Media Monarch category that was NOT supposed to be there. Whether if it was a skill issue on my part or if it was just a Google Forms moment™, this is no longer the case.

If you put in a write-in when voting for a Media Monarch, you need to go back and edit your response to have a vote that will get counted for. :pray:

@LittleBitChie Since your DMs are closed and we are unable to privately approach you about this matter, this message is for you!

:tada: Congratulations on making it as a finalist!

Both The Tower Hub and the Tower Unite community has voted, and they nominated you for a chance to win an award at our upcoming Award Show, The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite. There are a couple things you’ll need to know about our show’s proceedings, and they will be listed below.

Attendance

You do NOT have to be at the show in any way, shape, or form. If you cannot or do not want to attend, just let us know and we will pick someone to accept the award for you. You’ll still get the trophies sent to you accordingly, but you won’t have to be there at all.

It’s okay to not attend! Nobody is going to get upset, and there’s no real harm caused by it anyway. If you do not want to attend or cannot attend for any given reason, let us know. Something as simple as the following is completely acceptable:

I will not be attending The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite.

Promotional Materials

All finalists are required to have a portrait of their most commonly used player model of choice doing whatever pose the finalist chooses. These portraits will be used when displaying both the montages of the finalist’s work, when a finalist wins an award, and as a promotional graphic to get people to vote for you in the applicable categories.
You will be receiving promotional material from us sometime shortly after you submit your portrait for us to use.

Here are a few examples of what some of the current portraits are like:

Example Portraits



Gate_Portrait

THIS IS MANDATORY. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO TAKE OR SHOW A PORTRAIT, PLEASE LET US KNOW.

Showcasing your work

Later on, I alongside my team will be asking to tour certain parts of your event, condo, etc. in the case that it’s not available on the Workshop so we can showcase your work in a montage leading up to the reveal of the winner. In the case you have recorded material you’d like to use for showcasing your event, just let me know in advance so I can communicate that with our production team. This is both a live-event and a high-production-value event, so we want to save as much time and resources as possible where possible.

Entrance Music + Montage Music

Every single finalist in the main event will have both entrance music and montage music. Meaning that if you are to win an award, there will be a song of your choice playing as you make your way down the runway. In addition, a song of your choice will play as we peruse whichever applicable condo(s) showcases your event(s) that you were nominated for.
In other words, it’s going to sound ten times cooler to you if you win.

THIS IS MANDATORY. DO NOT SKIP OUT ON PICKING ENTRANCE & MONTAGE MUSIC UNLESS OTHERWISE COMMUNICATED.

Voluntary Finalist Forfeiture

It’s unlikely, but if you decide that you do not want to even be recognized by the community and forfeit your spot as a finalist, there is a specific process you’ll have to follow in order to do so. If you so choose to forfeit your spot as a finalist, please (privately or not) reach out with the following quoted message and note that this does not grant another nominee in to fill the place of your spot as a finalist.

I would like to forfeit my spot as a finalist in The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite.

Once you’ve replied with the quoted material above, we will then walk you through the forfeiture procedure for our award show. Failure to comply with our award show forfeiture procedure will result in your work being showcased at the event anyway regardless of your wishes to have it removed—even if you don’t win an award.

Conclusion / TL;DR

  • I need a portrait of you in your Tower Unite player model
  • I need your choice of both Entrance Music & Montage Music when showcasing you and your work
  • If you’d like to forfeit the award show, please respond with the following quote:

    I would like to forfeit my spot as a finalist in The Trovers Award Show: Featuring Tower Unite

Good luck and have fun! I look forward to hearing whatever your response will be. Thank you again for continuing to create on Tower Unite!