How many judges does it take to pick a winner? Well, that depends on what awards show you’re talking about. For the IHAF Awards, our panel of 14 expert judges recently scored hundreds of submissions across 32 categories to converge on 96 Gold, Silver and Honorable Mention winners along with one deserving Best of Show.

Throughout the month of August, the digital experts on our judging panel reviewed your video entries along with every app, website, social campaign, and email submitted to our digital marketing categories. Last Thursday, our in-person panel convened for a full day to evaluate your print submissions—a roomful of masterworks from sales collateral to point-of-purchase displays to integrated campaigns.

And if choosing winners for each of these categories wasn’t difficult enough, the judges then had to face the arduous task of converging on a single Best of Show. This coveted honor goes to the one entry among the Gold category winners that stands out as best of the best. After tie scores were broken and considerable time was spent deliberating the merits of each piece, our judges reached a final decision.

All that’s left to do now is announce the winners!

Find out what teams will walk away from this year’s IHAF Awards with a Gold trophy, or Silver or Honorable Mention certificates. Then put your hands together for a round of applause in honor of the 2016 Best of Show. Join us for the IHAF Annual Conference & Awards Show on November 9-10 at the Revere Hotel Boston Common. We look forward to celebrating with you.