Went to the 10th Philippine Web Awards with office mates. I was invited as an entry screener once again which means it was my job to narrow down the entries into the top three to five for the semi-finals and finals. Another set of finals judges would then decide the winner for each category. According the Media G8way, the organizers of the event, a total of 69 Web sites made it to this year’s PWA finals, competing in 15 different categories, namely: Arts and Portfolio; Blogs; Celebrities and Personalities; Community and Portal; Corporate; E-commerce; E-LGUs- City; E-LGUs- Provincial; E-LGUs- Municipality; Lifestyle and Leisure; News and Media; Organizations; Personal; Recreation; Schools; and SMEs. The event was held at the Teatrino Bar and Restaurant, in the Promenade, Greenhills Commercial Complex.
The place was very nice–and brought the event back to the more intimate atmosphere of Webby’s in the past (I was actually in the 1st! and have attended most years since 1997 which back then was at The Hard Rock Cafe). We arrived a bit late because of the traffic–add to the fact that it was hard to park in the area. We arrived just in time to watch about 3 or 4 of the trophies given out by the hosts–Donita Rose and Gelli Mateo.
The 10th Philippine Web Awards Winners on Stage
They were able to manage to bring the event to a nice close by moving the bands at the end (instead of being intermission numbers in the middle), in between the raffle. Somebody from Media G8way took over raffle duties from Mrs Guiterrez who passed away–and was able to make it as fun and entertaining as previous raffles (which has sort of become a tradition for the event).
Swing band Brass Monkeys on stage
Join the Club with their onstage antics
Entertainment for the night was provided by the Brass Monkeys–a brass band with a jazzy funk/swing repertoire and the always fun performance of Join the Club. This was Join the Club’s second time around. What was interesting was the lead singer mentioned that he was thankful that they got invited back and had just watched their performance on the last Webby’s on Youtube. Well my office mate Elvin happed to post that clip as we were their the last time and he happened to bring a camera with him. Well we got a kick of out of that.
They managed to bring the house down with their easy-to-swing-to tunes, their onstage antics, and that beatbox routine of their drummer. Overall it was an interesting night and we had a lot of fun.
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