A Sticky Situation - Part Deux

As you may remember, I directed and produced a commercial in November for WD-40. We submitted the commercial to a few competitions and have seen an incredible response! The first competition we took it to was the Utah Addy Awards. Basically, all the commercials produced in Utah are pitted against one another. Judges from across the country fly in to judge the Utah-produced pieces.

The commercial was put in the student section since we are all students. We were hoping to win a Gold Addy, which we did. What we weren't necessarily expecting, however, was the we ended up winning Best of Fest for the student section. So that was a pleasant surprise. The trophy was a spray-painted dog bone mounted on some sort of platform. The festival's theme was something along the lines of 'Dog and Pony Show' and they kept throwing the phrase 'Top Dog' around, so I suppose that makes sense. One of the judges actually told us that he voted for the commercial for Best of Fest overall, but the officiators told him that since we were in the student section, we couldn't win overall. Bummer, but I'm still honored that he thought it was good enough to win overall.

 We sat back and watched the rest of the commercials, grinning at the new golden trophies we'd won. Then they got around to sending ballots around for the audience choice award. We, of course, voted for ourselves. It turns out almost everybody else did too. Just a few minutes after the ballots had been turned in, they walked out and awarded us this awesome WWF belt, which was legitimate. It was signed by a few WWF wrestlers even. We get to keep the belt for a year as a trophy for winning the audience choice. Pretty unique prizes at this thing, I must say!