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Welcome one, welcome all, to the biggest event in the Sonic online community calendar! That's right, it's the Sonic Site Awards 2002! We had a fantastic time last year, discovering all sorts of brand new Sonic fan sites and becoming closer as a community. This time, we're hosting a big online party to celebrate the winners of 2002, and you're all invited! Bring your best suit/dress, and tune in to our Phase 3 Ceremony today at 3:00pm GMT (10:00am EST in the US). Below you'll find links to the Sonic Stadium MB, which will include a special forum to chat about the SSA and the awards; the AOL Instant Messenger Chat Room, so you can chat to other live; and soon throughout the day you'll find special SSA AIM Buddy Icons to use! Click here to join the chat on The Sonic Stadium MB! Click here to join the chat on AOL Instant Messenger Chat! AIM Chat Icons: The SSA Ceremony Broadcast can be listened to also - click the links below. Due to some weirdness, it comes in an oddly-evened out two-parter - click Part 1, then when that is finished, click on Part 2. It's in MP3 format, so make sure you got Windows Media Player or WinAmp at the ready! You'll notice that the Awards for each category will appear one by one over the course of the night as well, so that if you haven't caught the broadcast, you'll be able to see the winners in text. You'll also be able to pick up your award this way, if you are the winner of the category in which the award is being displayed for! Listen to the Ceremony Broadcast! ssa2002-ceremony-bcast1.mp3 SSA 2002 Ceremony Broadcast PART ONE 157kb, 1 minute 20 seconds ssa2002-ceremony-bcast2.mp3 SSA 2002 Ceremony Broadcast PART TWO 2.77MB, 24 Minutes 14 Seconds SSA 2002: The Winners! Well, what a year it has been. The Sonic Site Awards is now officially over, and Shadow of a Hedgehog remains the winner of the SSA for this year. As well as some records broken I feel - Neon Chaos' site has won the most consecutive Sonic Site Awards in one year. Well done to him! Neon Chaos has made an excellent impression with Shadow of a Hedgehog this year - although changing the layout several times didn't seem to faze the visitors, the emphasis on SoaH was always innovation, a thing that is all too little in this Online Community, and a point that sites such as SoaH and the Sonic Stadium are trying to enforce. Neon, congratulations! And well done to all of you - the nominees, the fans of the nominees' sites, and the winners. Next year is all about making things better and improving them. If you haven't won this year, then do not fear, you were good enough to become nominated by the people, and that in itself makes you a winner! Funniest Sonic Site 2002: 1st. Dirty Power - 114 VOTES 2nd. The Green Hill Zone - 77 VOTES 3rd. The Moogle Cavern - 35 VOTES 4th. The Super Sonic Super Site - 33 VOTES 5th. The Domain of Netraptor - 12 VOTES 'Sonic News' Award for Best Reporter 2002: 1st. Pepperidge - 84 VOTES 2nd. Neon Chaos - 66 VOTES 3rd. Tristan Bresnen - 63 VOTES 4th. Lisa - 41 VOTES 5th. ZinDinTimeYUM - 18 VOTES Information Station Award 2002: 1st. Sonic Stuff Research Group - 94 VOTES 2nd. Sonic Central - 68 VOTES 3rd. Sonic PC - 36 VOTES 4th. Mystic Mobius - 31 VOTES 5th. ShenSonic Homepage - 25 VOTES Fan Game Award 2002: 1st. Sonic Robo Blast 2 - 92 VOTES 2nd. Sonic: The Fated Hour - 49 VOTES 3rd. Collision Demo - 38 VOTES 4th. When Team 3 Gets Bored - 37 VOTES 5th. ShenSonic Demo3 - 31 VOTES Coolest Downloads Award 2002: 1st. Shadow of a Hedgehog - 111 VOTES 2nd. Sonic Fan Games HQ - 55 VOTES 3rd. Sonic ROMS.co.uk - 41 VOTES 4th. The Super Sonic Super Site - 33 VOTES 5th. Sonic PC - 24 VOTES Fan Game Developer Award 2002: 1st. Sonic Team Junior - 90 VOTES 2nd. Neon Chaos - 69 VOTES 3rd. SimSonic - 35 VOTES 4th. SonKnuck Team - 30 VOTES 5th. Cinossu - 22 VOTES Most Colourful Sonic Site Award 2002: 1st. Shadow of a Hedgehog - 118 VOTES 2nd. The Super Sonic Super Site - 67 VOTES 3rd. Sonic Central - 25 VOTES 4th. SonKnuck's World - 21 VOTES 5th. Iris & Sonic's Vacation Spot - 19 VOTES MIDI Artist of the Year Award 2002: 1st. John Weeks - 109 VOTES 2nd. Knuckles X-Treme - 59 VOTES 3rd. Jarel Jones - 35 VOTES 4th. Gerry R. Cueto, Jr. - 22 VOTES 5th. Ztrop - 21 VOTES Most Evolved Website Award 2002: 1st. Shadow of a Hedgehog - 113 VOTES 2nd. Dirty Power - 88 VOTES 3rd. Sonic Fighters - 24 VOTES 4th. ShenSonic homepage - 20 VOTES 5th. Sonic Thugz - 12 VOTES Fan Fic Writer Award 2002: 1st. Netraptor - 87 VOTES 2nd. Tails Fan - 55 VOTES 3rd. Shayne Thames - 47 VOTES 4th. Nicholas D. Wolfwood - 32 VOTES 5th. Kevin Lu - 26 VOTES Favourite Forum Award 2002: 1st. Mobius Forum [MoFo] - 63 VOTES 2nd. SoaH City - 56 VOTES 3rd. tSf MB - 50 VOTES 4th. SFGHQ General Discussion - 44 VOTES 5th. MoogleMB.com - 41 VOTES Fan Comic Award 2002: 1st. Sonic Adventure 2 - 66 VOTES 2nd. Shadow the Comic - 63 VOTES 3rd. Other-M - 57 VOTES 4th. I like Pie - 56 VOTES 5th. Sonic Shadows - 38 VOTES Fan's Hero Award 2002: 1st. Sonic Guy - 69 VOTES 2nd. SimSonic - 57 VOTES 3rd. Shayne Thames - 46 VOTES 4th. Zin - 37 VOTES 5th. _StreetSonic_ - 36 VOTES Sonic MP3 Remix Award 2002: 1st. Ice Cap Theme [Frozen Knuckles Mix] - Rayza - 69 VOTES 2nd. Sonic 3 & Knuckles Boss Remix - DJGamer2K - 54 VOTES 3rd. Sonic 2 - Underground Zone - SSNTails - 45 VOTES 4th. Sonic 1 - Lightning Star OC Remix - Jaxx - 41 VOTES 5th. Sonic 3 Act 1 Boss [Sonic Does Chronic Mix] - Rayza - 33 VOTES Favourite Webmaster Award 2002: 1st. Neon Chaos - 87 VOTES 2nd. Sonic Adventurer - 72 VOTES 3rd. Rlan - 70 VOTES 4th. CyberSonic708 - 24 VOTES 5th. JL - 9 VOTES Sonic Artist Award 2002: 1st. Sonic Adventurer - 110 VOTES 2nd. Darkspeeds (Elson Wong) - 48 VOTES 3rd. Generation8 - 37 VOTES 4th. Johnathon L. - 28 VOTES 5th. NukuNukuCat - 27 VOTES Sonic Boom Box Award 2002: 1st. tSFM Radio - 87 VOTES 2nd. EspioKaos.com - 45 VOTES 3rd. Blazefire Radio - 39 VOTES 4th. Overclocked Remix - 39 VOTES 5th. Sonic Spin Radio - 31 VOTES Best Sonic Hoaxer Award 2002: 1st. Pyro Sonic - 62 VOTES 2nd. Kulock - 56 VOTES 3rd. Matt the Yak - 51 VOTES 4th. Andy V'Ner - 43 VOTES 5th. Ultimo - 29 VOTES Worth It Award 2002: 1st. The Moogle Cavern - 78 VOTES 2nd. ShenSonic Homepage - 46 VOTES 3rd. Sonic Central - 38 VOTES 4th. Sonic Fighters - 35 VOTES 5th. Khaoxx Media - 23 VOTES The Sonic Site Award 2002: 1st. Shadow of a Hedgehog - 110 VOTES 2nd. SonicVerse Team - 62 VOTES 3rd. Sonic Team - 36 VOTES 4th. Sonic Central - 33 VOTES 5th. ShenSonic Homepage - 12 VOTES See You Next Year! I'm outta time, but make sure you stick around The Sonic Stadium during 2003, it's gonna be a blast! Also, keep an eye out for The Sonic Site Awards 2003 - starting in July! Thanks to David Carron for making the base award images. View full story