The 3rd Annual Club World Awards - 2005 Winners Announced

The 3rd Annual Club World Awards
2005 Winners Announced

New York City Nightspots Take Top Honors
New York - The Club World Awards, hosted by Club Systems International, is pleased to announce the 2005 "disco globe" winners, originally revealed in a star-studded ceremony during Miami's Winter Music Conference that almost didn't happen.

The call came in at noon on the day of the ceremony: After a series of unfortunate events, original host venue Nocturnal wouldn't be ready to open in time. Club World organizers were hoping for the best but expected the worst: Nocturnal's Monday and Tuesday events had also been cancelled. Nevertheless, Nocturnal management found the ceremony a surrogate venue - Pure, on the downtown Miami waterfront - and Club World staff spent ten harried hours burning through cell phone batteries to get the word out on the venue change. By 11 p.m., Pure was hopping with all the nominees and VIPs who had RSVP-ed for Nocturnal.

The ceremony, expertly helmed by master of ceremonies The Scumfrog, was representative of the decadence of dance music: Promoters mixed with porn stars, while tech-heads talked shop with super-DJs at the back bar and members of the press took notes. We're talking about some high-level networking here: "Best Superclub" presenter and emerging dance music star Kelly Osbourne even requested face time with reigning trance princess Sandra Collins. The two eventually met under a series of dizzying flashes. All presenters received a gift bag packed with goodies from Armani Exchange, 5inch, Twelve Inch LP, Electric 7 and even new RBK DJ kicks from Reebok.

Among the winners, New York City reigned with a whopping eight (of a possible 11) awards, proving once again that the city still doesn't sleep. Crobar took all four of its nominations, including Best Superclub, Best Lighting System (SJ Lighting), Best Video System (Artfag & V Squared Labs) and Best Interior Design (BigTime Design & ICRAVE Design Studio). Cielo was named Best Club, and its Deep Space resident Francois K took Best Resident DJ honors, proclaiming that Monday nights are as good as any to go out. Sullivan Room came away with the people's choice NightStalker Award, voted on by the clubbing public - a clear testament to its popularity with the musically-minded clubbing set. And homegrown Sunday night favorite Asseteria won Best Party, showing that clubland still has a playfully deviant soul.

Winners were chosen by a panel of 12 industry-expert judges using a weighted ranking system. Full bios are available upon request.

Despite the last-minute location switch, The Club World Awards was a huge success, drawing over 400 crème de la crème attendees. We would like to applaud all the winners, and the year-round efforts by all the nominees toward the advancement of nightlife. The cycle begins again in September 2005, when submissions for 2006 nominations will start being accepted.

Please see the special May 2005 issue of Club Systems International, with photos of The 3rd Annual Club World Awards. For a complimentary industry subscription to CSI, please go to www.clubsystemsinternational.com and fill out the provided form.

CLUB WORLD AWARD WINNERS 2005

Best Superclub: Crobar, New York

Best Club: Cielo, New York

Best Lounge: Tabu, Las Vegas

Best New: Compound, Atlanta

Best Sound System: Mansion, Miami Phazon & Sound Investment; Rain, Las Vegas, Infinite Audio (Tie)

Best Lighting System: Crobar, SJ Lighting

Best Video System: Crobar, Artfag & V Squared Labs

Best Interior Design: Crobar, BigTime Design & ICRAVE Design Studio

Best Party: Asseteria, New York

Best Resident: DJ Francois K, Deep Space at Cielo

Best DJ Product: Denon DN-S1000

Best Sound Product Or Series: Turbosound Aspect Series

Best Lighting Product Or Series: High End Systems DL2

Best Video Product: Pioneer DVJ-X1

Best Effect Product: Jem Hydra

Best LED Product: Color Kinetics iColor Flex SL

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