Awards Ceremony


 * For stats about the various award ceremonies.

The Award Ceremony, also known as the Gilded Chris Ceremony, is where the castmates are eliminated. It is the Total Drama Action equivalent of the Campfire Ceremony and the Barf Bag Ceremony. After a challenge is held, the losing team must head off to the award ceremony, where all but one contestant will receive a Gilded Chris Award. That contestant is then eliminated and will have to walk the Walk of Shame and board the Lame-o-sine.

Instead of having the campers deposit their votes in a ballot or cast their votes in the confessional like the previous season, the votes are cast directly by electronic voting devices, to prevent any more tampering with the votes like Harold did in Basic Straining. The Awards Ceremony is last seen in Top Dog, where Duncan receives the last Gilded Chris Award of season two.

The Awards Ceremony's Total Drama World Tour counterpart is the Barf Bag Ceremony.

Counterparts

 * Campfire Ceremony in Total Drama Island.
 * Barf Bag Ceremony in Total Drama World Tour.

Trivia

 * The first and last Award Ceremonies of the season featured a double elimination.
 * Trent was the first person to receive a Gilded Chris award at the Award Ceremony.
 * Geoff and Bridgette are the only two contestants to never receive a Gilded Chris award at an Award Ceremony.
 * Chris wears a different outfit than his usual wear at all of the Award Ceremonies, which is a light blue suit with a red bow tie.
 * It is unknown how contestants are given Gilded Chris Awards in some episodes, as sometimes Chris and/or Chef throw them to their recipients, but in a few episodes, Chef is absent, and Chris is shown reading the safe castmates' names, but not throwing the awards.
 * Sometimes, there aren't even awards being held by Chef, but they are thrown to the contestants the same way.
 * Beth was the last female to receive a Gilded Chris Award. Duncan was the last male, and last contestant overall, to receive a Gilded Chris Award.
 * The Award Ceremony is the only ceremony so far in the series to appear in every elimination episode (not including the reward episodes), as the Campfire Ceremony sometimes did not appear when some contestants were eliminated.
 * Beth is the only contestant to go on to the Awards Ceremony stage to collect her Gilded Chris Award
 * For the first five eliminations there was a boy girl-pattern (Geoff, Bridgette, Trent, Gwen, DJ, Izzy, and Owen).
 * This pattern was temporarily broken after LeShawna was eliminated after Heather, instead of a male contestant.
 * However, after LeShawna's elimination, the pattern continues (Justin, Lindsay, Harold, Courtney, Owen, Beth, and Duncan).