AXVS AWARDS NIGHT - WEDNESDAY 28TH AUGUST 7:00 PM AEST

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Awards night will start in 30 minutes. just some housekeeping now, the following coaches are yet to reply on votes required for 2014 changes.

Nails
Adamant
Toga
Monstrum
Jayman
Tbagrocks

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also experiencing some Internet issues tonight not sure why but the awards thread may be sporadic will do the best i can with what seems to be an intermittent connection.

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Ok so we will start off with the award that may need to be renamed, may definitely need a new trophy...

The winner of the inaugural AXVS pre season cup- THE CW Cap.



add this one to your teams trophy cabinet.

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Toga will post the awards he has so wonderfully run shortly in the meantime i will run us through the AXVS Great Khali award count, an award also up for renaming. (Our Brownlow).

I will also post all other awards for the season throughout the count.

[Toga]

Get excited Asia, the All-Asian team of the year, and the inaugural AXV Rising Star Award are ready to be announced! :)

[Toga]

OK! So here we go!

After compiling a weekly Team of the Week, consisting of the best performed players of each round, here is the 2013 All-Asian Team! This team consists of the highest averaging players of each position for the 2013 AXV season, with the criteria being that they had played over 10 games this season.

Coach: TBA (Premiership Coach)
Captain: Steve Johnson (Mongolia)
Vice-Captain: Dane Swan (Manila)

Defenders:

Brendon Goddard	Dyson Heppell	Garrick Ibbotson	Bryce Gibbs
Manila	PNG	PNG	Kuala Lumpur

Midfielders:

Dane Swan VC	Gary Ablett	Scott Pendlebury	Joel Selwood
Manila	Taiwan	Kuala Lumpur	Bangladesh

Rucks:

Jarryd Roughead

Hong Kong

Forwards:

Steve Johnson C	Nick Riewoldt	Travis Cloke	Tom Rockliff
Mongolia	Bangladesh	Manila	PNG

Utilities:

Leigh Montagna	Ryan Griffen
Hong Kong	PNG

[Toga]

Congratulations to all players that earned a nomination, in particular Steve Johnson who was chosen to captain the team being the highest-averaging player in the SportsBet competition this year, with Dane Swan elected as his vice after a stellar season.

[Toga]

And on to the Rising Star!

The votes have been cast! Here are the results of the inaugural AXV Rising Star Award!

Based on a 5-4-3-2-1 voting system, 12 of the 16 AXV coaches cast their votes on who they believed to be the best player under 21 years of age with under 10 games of experience heading into the 2013 season. With a maximum of 60 votes to be awarded to each player, here are the top three Rising Stars of the AXV competition!

[Adamant]

Jelwood & NRoo. 8)

Nicely done Togs.

[Toga]

Tom Mitchell (Turkey)
AXV RS Votes: 23
Season Average: 126.8
Games Played: 10
High Score: 193

Turkey's Tom Mitchell burst onto the AXV scene mid-season, setting the competition alight with an amazing 10 game average of 126.8 points per game. It seems that the only thing  holding him back from becoming the inaugural AXV Rising Star was the fact he played half as many games as the two youngsters that finished above him in the award. Congratulations on a stellar second half of the season Tom!

[Toga]

Oliver Wines (Laos)
AXV RS Votes: 28
Season Average: 96.2
Games Played: 20
High Score: 174

Quadzilla! The powerfully built youngster from Laos, after an impressive debut season in which he did not miss a game, has been recognised for his achievement in coming second in the inaugural AXV rising star award. The first nomination for the year, Wines had an impressive first half of the season before tiring towards the end of the season, however his mammoth efforts early in the season were obviously enough to catch the eye of his opposition coaches!

[Toga]

And on to the winner!

Drum roll please....

[Toga]

Jaeger O'Meara (Bangkok)
AXV RS Votes: 59
Season Average: 119.2
Games Played: 20
High Score: 181

Was there ever any doubt? After an amazing debut season, over which he played all 20 games and was recognised in the AXV Team of the Week on a couple of occasions, Bangkok young gun Jaeger O'Meara has been recognised by the league's opposition coaches as the best young player in the competition. Congratulations on a fantastic debut season Jaeger, and a message to Bangkok's opposition - beware of this kid!

[Toga]

So what does everyone think of the results there? Think anything should've gone differently?

I'll post the full leaderboard after I have dinner! :)