Congrats Mark (and thank you Jamie)! I purchased Wiki Test a few days ago after the voting had closed so I very happy to see that it won. What an incredible effect. Congrats again!

Congrats to Marc and Craig, both who truly deserve it. What sets both of these two apart is not just the incredibly magic/mentalism they create, but how they love what they do and how they value their customers as friends. Both have actively reached out to me and others personally when we have had issues or concerns and they have built trust in not just their products, but themselves. Truly great people who deserve these awards.

Well done boys. Also, a huge thank you to Jamie for his hard work and keeping this condition alive year after year. I always look forward to it.

To a great 2017!


-Eli

Congratulations to Mark Kerstein for the Houdin Award.

Here are the entries in vote count order:
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72 WikiTest by Mark Kerstein
58 Little Door by Roddy McGhie
22 Rubicon by Gregory Wilson
18 Murray Mint by Michael Murray
13 ToiBox by Johnathan Kamm
12 Priceless by Michael Huot Richard Sanders
11 Color Match Pocket by Criag Filicetti
10 Inject by Greg Rostami
10 Will To Read by Steve Dela
8 Bill To Marker - Nick Einhorn
8 Coin Coalition by John Jurney
8 Odyssey by Calen Morelli
6 Butterfly Effect by Peter Nardi
5 Out of Sight by Joshua Jay
5 Position Impossible by Brent Braun
5 Symbol by Steve Cook
4 Cube Cards by Kev G
4 Golden by Robb
4 Starlight by Chris Perrotta
4 Vanishing Ring by Sans Mind
3 Box 98 by Handcrafted Miracles
3 Cube 3 by Steven Brundage
3 End of my Rope by Chris Philpott
3 GPS Deck by Steve Gore
3 Passed Out Deck by Ken Dyne
3 The Seer Wallet by Michael Weber
3 Tornado by Rick Lax and Justin Flom
2 Badlands Bob (Dice) by Viking, via Alakazam
2 Binary Code by ?
2 BlackBird by Jeff Copeland
2 DMC Rouge Deck by Phill Smiff
2 E=MC2 (6 Cards to Pocket) by Glenn Morphew
2 Factory Blanks by Tom Stone
2 Operation Gemini by Red Devil
2 Q&A Masterclass by Bob Cassidy
2 Roaming by Sean Scott
2 Sheer Luck by Shawn Farquhar
2 Svenpad Pocket Version by Brett Barry
2 The Traveler by Jeff Copeland
2 Unfazed by Ben Blau
2 Vade Retro Satana by Vic Nadata of Gemini Artifacts
2 Victorian Coins and Glass by Kainoa Harbottle
1 5221 by Wayne Fox
1 Absolute Zero by Sansmind
1 All About Eve by ?
1 AOK by Lewis le Val
1 Apple Jacked by Scott Alexander
1 Area Nano by Looch
1 Arthur by Chris Wiehl
1 Brian Watson Cups by Brian Watson
1 Canvas by Kim Tung Lin
1 Chat by Ollie Mealing
1 Coin Set by Todd Lassen
1 Cold Case by Greg Wilson
1 Desert Island by Eric Samuels
1 Die-A-Bolical v2 by Steve Cook & Magic Wagon
1 Double DeckCeption by Myke & Salah
1 Eclipse by Sudo
1 Eraser by Rick Lax
1 Flictionary by Steve Haresign
1 Hands down by The Others Brothers
1 Hideaout Wallet by outlaw effect
1 Hollycard by ?
1 In Order to Amaze by Pit Hartling
1 Magnum Color Changing Knife Set by Rodger Lovins
1 Movie by Mario Daniel and Gee Magic
1 Narcissus by Chris Philpott
1 Night Crawler by C. F. Yuen
1 Paradigm Shift by Christoph Borer
1 Peter Turner Live 2 by Penguin Lecture Series
1 Picturewise by Labcomagic
1 Skycap 2.0 by Uday Jadugar and Luke Dancy
1 Smoke 2 by Alan Rorrison
1 Spell O Matic by Liam Montier & Big Blind Media
1 Tactics by J.T. Chalitsis
1 The Ammo by Gary Jones
1 The Black Bin by Eric Samuels
1 The Invisible Card by Blake Vogt
1 The Jar by Kozmo and Garrett Thomas
1 The Truth by Michael Weber
1 Thought Control by Matt Mello
1 Tossed Out Deck by Luke Jermay
1 Travel In Mind by Luca Steve Cook and Paul McCaig
1 Trinity Set by Stephen Young
1 Under Test Conditions by Jan Foster
1 USB Stick Prediction by Cesaral
1 Visionary V2 by Stephen Young


Congratulations to Craig Filicetti for the Thurston Award.
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6 Craig Filicetti
4 Stephen Young
4 Dan "Dannicus" Frecks
3 Roddick McGhie
3 Mark Mason
3 Dave Bonsall
2 Robb
2 Michael Murray
2 Matt Mello
2 Greg Rostami
2 Calen Morelli
1 Steve Haresign
1 Soren Harbo
1 Scott Alexander
1 Richard Sanders
1 Peter Nardi
1 Mark Leveridge
1 Mark Kerstin
1 Joshua Jay
1 John Jurney
1 Glenn Morphew
1 Donnie Buckley
1 David Britland
1 Dan Harlan
1 Chris Philpott
1 Card-Shark


A BIG thanks to Jamie Grant for all of his hard work in this thread.

To a magical 2017,
Greg Rostami

Congrats to all the winners.
A big thanks to Jamie for the work he put in also.
Todd

Congrats to Marc and Craig.

Mark

I can only echo the sentiments of Elimagic and congratulate the winners for bringing their outstanding talents into the community. I feel very humbled to be included in such an amazing list of creators. Smiley faced thing.

As last year's winner, proud to pass the Trick of The Year baton to the massively creative MARC KERSTEIN and WIKITEST.

So good...

It was the best effect I bought this past year - and Marc's out of the box thinking is a gift to all of us.

For any of you that get WikiTest, take the time to get to know it and join the Facebook users group as there are many improved handlings and ideas there as resources.

Congrats also to my dear friend Craig Filicetti (who I will see later today) who takes such good care of his customers.

Thanks to Jamie D Grant for once again being such a swell person and making this event a reality every year

Looked like Little Door was going to win in a runaway. Great effect that deserved a lot of votes, but I agree that wiki was the clear standout this year. I hate app magic (with a passion) but I have been absolutely killing with wiki. Well worth the price.

Which is strange since you simply re-invented a utility prop. You should have won "Utility Prop" of the year award. I think maybe the Café should look at having two awards next year:

1)Trick of the Year
2)Utility Prop of the Year

That makes more sense IMO.

Thank you very much for the recognition and your votes. The ProMystic team is very grateful and we continue to do our best to bring you world class products and customer service.

Best,
-Craig

Congrtatulation to the winners!

Thanks all. And a huge thank you to everyone who voted.
To even compete against Roddy McGhie, Gregory Wilson and Michael Murray is an honour, and their respective products are indeed excellent.

Thanks also to Jamie for hosting the competition.

Congrats to all the winners, top finishers, and all the folks that got some honorable mention for their work, especially John Jurney for his Coin Coalition and Glenn Morphew for his E=MC2/ Six Card to Pocket. Both recognized for their wonderful works and as notable magic creators.

And special thanks to Jamie for running this fine recognition every year. It's one of the high points of the Café, and allows us all to participate and honor so much good magic, win, lose or draw.

Great job all!

Congratulations to all those nominated and an extra round of applause for a worthy winner.

Paul Mc.

I HATE this thread!!!!!!!!

It causes me to be in awe of all the AWESOME magic that was a part of 2016. And the AWESOME people that bring it to us. And makes my bank account dwindle... NOT Awesome, LOL
And not to mention, the AWESOMEST one of all,
Mr. Jamie Grant for just being AWESOME!!!

Congrats everyone, and thankfully this was a great year for the thread.

Off to the googly machine to keep pondering all these great effects from 2016!



Here is to another AWESOME year; 2017!!!!!!!

I have got to stop drinking energy drinks! I get all hyper on the Café'

Just found this thread and was surprised to see that SheerLuck the Comedy book test received two votes for the trick of the year 2016! Great to be in the final list even if it was only TWO votes, which is TWENTY-TWO less than it got when it was released in 2014 and was in the top THREE list, LOL.

31 Fair Play by Steve Haynes
31 Inferno by Bobby Hasbun
28 Quantum Bender 3 by John T. Sheets
28 Cody's Comedy Book Test by Cody Fisher
24 Sheer Luck by Shawn Farquhar

Thanks to those that thought it was worth voting for, even though it's been out a few years and for those involved that let it stay in the official list...

Congrats to the winner and all those who did create great new magic in 2016.

Cheers,

-shawn

I thought "Little Door" would win hands down - not to take anything away from Wikitest.

This is just like the US election and the Super Bowl.

Robert

I thought Little Door would win also. I'd wish I felt better about Wikitest winning but I have an S5 so...

Ditto for both Little Door and an S5. Have you looked at Inject?

Sucks if you aren't able to do Wiki because it is so darn good. Little door is a visual masterpiece but wiki is a mind melter that you are ready to perform at a moment's notice.