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The "Choonies"

Changchun annual awards

The Choonies is the first awards ceremony for outstanding work within the Changchun community.

The provisional date for the first event is the 7th of January 2012 at the World Life Club where we hope to attract a big audience for the The First Choonie Awards ceremony. 

We will  celebrate the best contibutions to 2011 as well as start our own Hall of Fame for Changchun friends that have made a major contribution to our community in the past up to the present day.

What are your thoughts? Do you know someone who should be nominated? The categories will be announced soon so keep posted and join this group!

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The “Choonies” is the first awards ceremony for outstanding work within the Changchun community.
We celebrate the best contributions to 2011 as well as started our own "Hall of Fame" for Changchun Friends that have made a major contribution to our community in the past up to the present day. To see the Hall of Fame winners click the link in the Page box on the right.
Using surveymonkey.com we accumulated a large amount of votes and the results are as follows:


**CATEGORIES**


Changchun Friend of the Year - winner: Richard Roman;

runners-up: Richard Ridealgh, Ram, David Puckett

Best Chinese Friend of the Year - winner: Gaea;

runners-up: Donna, Derek and Jack London

Best Hotspot of the Year - winner: The Happy Home;

runners-up: Grandpa's and Grandma's and The World Life Club

Best Story/Article of the Year - winner: "The Fall and Rise of Andrev Yongovlaschenski" by Finn McDonald;

runners-up: "The Book of Zhou" by Martin Hendrick and "Backstreet Neighborhood" by Langlee

Best Group of the Year - winners: Changchun Live;

runners-up: Sound of Changchun and World Life Club

Best Event of the Year - winner: Thanksgiving at Grandpa's with David Baumel;

runners-up: The Latin Party, European Beer Tasting at the WLC


Best Song of the Year - winner: The 3 Martin's and an Aussie - "The Christmas Song";

runners-up: Alex Antonicelli and "This Song is Too Long", The 3 Martins and "Imagine There's No Jason", KiDDa Vitaly with "I'm Impressed"

Best Blogger of the Year - winner: Chris Knight;

runners-up: Richard Roman and Jason Reed

Best Video of the Year - winner: Curmudgeons Part 1 and 2;

runners-up: The 3 Martins, AT6 KiDDa & Indigo "Dress To Impress"

Best Changchun Character of the Year - winner: Langlee the Pirate;

runners-up: Jason Reed and Alex Antonicelli

Best Newbie of the Year - winner: Kim Jung Yoo;

runners-up: Gemma Morgan, Clement and Jack Field


A special Lifetime Achievement Award will honor the memory of Jack Murray.

Thanks to all who participated and made this a great night.

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Comment by Richard Roman on December 22, 2011 at 21:27

First category - best blog this year?

Any ideas?

Comment by The Choonies on December 22, 2011 at 9:10

Second committee meeting was held and we have progressed the idea much further and now hopefully will have a voting system up and running in the near future. Please give us ideas and read the blurb already discussed. There is a blog too for people to give their opinions.

Comment by Richard Roman on December 21, 2011 at 22:28

This is going to be a special event for all Changchunners! - watch this space! - A lot of planning going on now!

Comment by Richard Roman on December 21, 2011 at 14:36

I will be there at about 7.30

Comment by Sal on December 21, 2011 at 14:34

What? I'm not welcomed?

 

boohooo

Comment by The Choonies on December 21, 2011 at 14:27

Welcome Sal.  We'll meet at the Life Club tonight - not you Sal. Spread the word.

Comment by Sal on December 21, 2011 at 13:31

You need a proper trophy, maybe an empty bottle of beer

Comment by The Choonies on December 21, 2011 at 12:03

We need a meeting to discuss with the main organizing group. If only a subset can join the meeting that's OK because we can advance the idea.

I think we should meet tonight somewhere - Grandpa's? 7pm

I have a few new ideas that might help.

Comment by The Choonies on December 21, 2011 at 11:59

Now open

Comment by Richard ridealgh on December 21, 2011 at 11:23
Changchun's very own oscars!!
 

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