YUMAs

The YUSU Media Awards (formerly, York University Media Awards), or YUMAs, is the campus media's annual booze filled backslap-athon, first held in 2001. Nouse, URY, Vision, Cinematography Society and YSTV traditionally took it turns to arrange an awards evening, in which each society gave out their own awards rather than compete against other societies. In YSTV's case, this involved voting on old favourites, such as Best Show, Best Female and the like. Unlike other societies, YSTV members all have a vote on their categories (and indeed the categories chosen), rather than winners being chosen by a select group. In this respect the ceremony is a light-hearted way to end the year often including joke categories, unlike NaSTA.

In recent yearsUnverified or incomplete information the YUMAs seem to have turned into more traditional awards, with categories being pre-selected and nominations submitted by societies, with the judging by a group of YUSU staff and students.

2001

The first YUMAs, held at Merchant Adventurer's HallUnverified or incomplete information.

• Outstanding Production - SU Elections 2001 (beating Lazy Lunch and YSTV-am).
• Best Contribution to News and Current Affairs - Thea Darricotte (beating Kerry Beadling).
• Outstanding Achievement - Matt Hammond and Kevin Bowman for Election Night graphics system (beating Polarvision and Jenny Gordon).
• Best Newcomer - Adam Dymond (beating Chris Thornton).
• Lifetime Achievement - Matt Hammond (beating Peter Bowles and Michael Prior-Jones).
• YSTV also won in the inter-society catergory of "Most Glamorous Girls", with Nouse winning Tidiest Office, URY winning Best Quotes, Cinematography Society winning Best Blagging and Vision inevitably winning Most Controversial.

2002

Held at Merchant Adventurer's Hall. Photos can be seen on URY's [website].

• Best On-Screen Personality - Adam Dymond (beating Michael Prior-Jones, Rupert Clifford and Nick Oldham).
• Best Newcomer - Rob Humphrey (beating Giles Burdett).
• Devotion to YSTV - Kevin Bowman (beating Jenny Gordon and Michael Prior-Jones).
• Lifetime Achievement - Jenny Gordon (beating Thea Darricotte and Maurice the effects unit).

2003

Held at The Hilton near Clifford's Tower. After initial discussion in meetings YSTV pulled out after it was realised most of the active members would be immersed in final year exams and practical work the day after the ceremony, and the few who could attend would most probably be ridiculed for the minimal turnout and having to pick up most awards on behalf of others. Jonathan Bufton did however attend after being nominated for his URY show.

2004

Held at Next Generation Gym, with guest speaker former student and Daily Mail journalist Peter Hitchens. Photos are on YSTV's [website].

• Best Technical Innovation - YSTV Week graphics (beating Edit PC, Election Night graphics, Green Screen and tally lights).
• Best Presenter - Pete Nichols.
• Best Programme - Elections 2004.
• Best New Programme - Solipsism.
• Overall Contribution - Jonathan Bufton.
• Media Personality Of The Year - James Gallagher for his work at URY,YSTV and Nouse.

2005

Held again at Next Generation Gym. Has a page over at [URY] but as you'd expect is mainly centred around their people.

• Best Presenter - Kat Sutton (beating Pete Nichols, Sarah Richards, Kate Rushworth and Ben Tattersall-Smith).
• Best Behind-The-Scenes Contribution - Richard Ash.
• Best Newcomer - Lucy Watkins.
• Best Show - YSTV Week.
• Best Technical Innovation - ????

2006

A "picnic" held at the Quiet Place (and then a Derwent lecture theatre when the rain began) due to late organisation. Has a page of photos including one of the YSTV group over at [URY]. As a result of the awfulness of that year's event YSTV held their own spoof awards ceremony, the FLOPPYs.

2007

Held somewhere in town. Best Show Best Newcomer Best Presenter Best Behind The Scenes Work Best Technical Innovation

2011

Held in the Ron Cooke Hub, because of the papers' punch-up in YUSU's Courtyard bar after 2010's YUMAs.

• Best Technical Achievement for Michael Chislett's first ever 3D student television in the world.

This greatly upset URY's technical team, as they had just spent a whole holiday creating a new digital studio with touch screens and other shiny things. What made this worse was knowing that we had only put around 3 hours of work into making the 3D test footage.

• Best Animation/Graphics with Chris Young's Roses 2011 overlay.

YSTV famously campaigned against the "Society Slut" category with great moral upstanding, as this was not what we believed the YUMAs should be brought to.

2013

Held at the Biltmore Bar and Grill. Particularly impressive winning 'Best Illustration' with a regurgitated ident.

• Best Sports Coverage - Roses 2013
• Best Illustration - Ducks 2012

2016

A small delegation from YSTV (Kenric Yuen, Jemma Carr and Caroline Middleton) did go, in spite of our small membership that year.

• Best Event Coverage - Futsal

2017

Organised by URY last minute and held at Yates in town. YSTV mainly attended for the promise of free food but the the highlights of the evening were The Lemon Press' heckles, £1 pints and Edwin Barnes' (repeated) dabbing. We also won some awards!

• Best Coverage - Roses 2017
• Best Entertainment Strong and Stable Livestream
• Best Newcomer Matthew Stratford

2022

Organised by YUSU and held in the Lounge, the event was hosted by Ben Allen and Matt Ward-Perkins.

• Media Group of the Year
• Outstanding Achievement - Joe Radford
• Best Newcomer - Beth Marsch
• Best Photographer or Videographer - Joe Radford (Primarily for Fit For Another World - The Legacy of Anne Lister)
• Best Coverage - Roses 2022
• Best Event - NaSTA 2022

2023

Organised by YUSU and held in the Glasshouse, the event was hosted by Marks Polakovs and Marti Stelling. The awards also featured an intro VT produced by Marks and Cameron Fox, a parody and shot-for-shot remake of Cameron's earlier Elections 2023 intro VT, featuring cameos from Jamie Parker-East, Rhys Milling, and John Cherry.

• Best Technical Achievement - Roses 2023
• Best Branding - York Yesterday
• Best Design - Touristed
• Best Creative Arts or Dramatic Piece - Undergrad
• Highly Commended for Best Interview - Kaitlyn Beattie-Zarb's interview with the Archbishop of York
• Best Contribution to Sport - Tom Morrison
• Best Newcomer - Alexianne Charlery-Warner
• Best Multimedia Content Creator - Max Roach
• Outstanding Behind-The-Scenes Contribution - Cameron Fox
• Media Group Of The Year

2024

Organised by YUSU and held in the Glasshouse, the event was hosted by Marks Polakovs and Matt Davis. The awards again featured an intro VT produced by Marks and Cameron Fox, this time a Doctor Who parody titled "Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey".

• Best Technical Achievement - Badger
• Highly Commended for Best Collaboration - Show Swap
• Best Creative Arts or Dramatic Piece - Undergrad
• Highly Commended for Best Entertainment Piece - Jamie Does Pop Culture
• Best Contribution to Sport - Sam Rooke
• Highly Commended for Best Newcomer - Reuben Cope
• Outstanding Behind-The-Scenes Contribution - Jamie Parker-East
• Outstanding Achievement Award - Marks Polakovs
• Media Group Of The Year