FAQ Entry #424

This is a respond to a previously asked question about the A' Design Award and Competition. The full list of frequently asked questions can be accessed here.

#424: Why there are so many winners?

Instead of giving 5-10 awards each year; a platinum, a gold, a silver, a bronze and an iron plus a few honourable mentions, the A' Design Award system is based on awarding a percentage of submissions, so top 1% for example is a platinum design award winner, and this implies that if there are thousand entries there would be not 1 but about 10 platinum award winners, furthermore, we also put a threshold mechanism that could result in skewing the distribution, the mechanism ensures that after a certain quality level the entries are not awarded regardless if they are in top 20% which is our regular limit for iron award entries.

Keywords: award levels, platinum, gold, silver, bronze, iron, many winners, number of winners

The following questions could be related:

• #305: Will there be one winner or five winners for a design award category?
• #423: How come my entry is not a Platinum award winner even though it is the first in my category!
• #430: Could you please clarify if our design is rewarded with the Gold or the Silver award? We were informed that the design achieved the Silver award initially, yet we right now found that the gala night badge saying we won the Gold award. In fact a list of the stage name in the following page also classify us as gold award winner. Could you please help check it for us?
• #478: I won a Platinum award but my trophy is Golden, why is that?
• #488: Do Platinum and Golden Winners get bigger exhibition space?

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