Awards Ceremony


 * Refer to this page for statistics about the various award ceremonies.

The Awards Ceremony, also known as the Gilded Chris Ceremony, is where the cast members are eliminated. It is the Total Drama Action equivalent of the Campfire Ceremony from Total Drama Island, and the Barf Bag Ceremony from Total Drama World Tour. After a challenge is held, the losing team must head off to the amphitheater where the award ceremony takes place, and one or more contestants will not receive a Gilded Chris Award. That/those contestant(s) is/are then eliminated and will be forced to walk the Walk of Shame and enter the Lame-o-sine. Not every challenge ends in sending a team to the elimination ceremony as there were reward challenges throughout the season.

Instead of having the cast deposit their votes in a ballot or cast their votes in the confessional like they did in the previous season, the votes were cast directly by electronic voting devices. The Awards Ceremony was last seen in Top Dog, where Duncan received the last Gilded Chris Award of the season and Courtney gets eliminated.

Trivia

 * Trent was the first contestant to receive a Gilded Chris award at the Award Ceremony.
 * Gwen was the second contestant, and the first female, to receive a Gilded Chris award.
 * Geoff and Bridgette are the only two Total Drama Action contestants to never receive a Gilded Chris award at any point in the season.
 * 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.
 * Beth was the last female to receive a Gilded Chris Award. Duncan was the last male.
 * The Award Ceremony is the only ceremony so far in the series to appear in every elimination episode, as the Campfire Ceremony does not appear when some contestants are eliminated.
 * Similarly to last season, the contestants do not have to come up and take the symbol of the immunity, as Chef or Chris threw the awards to the contestants.
 * Beth was the only contestant that needed to walk onto the Awards Ceremony stage to collect her Gilded Chris Award.
 * If one considers Bridgette being eliminated before Geoff, then there was a boy-girl pattern for the first nine eliminations (Bridgette, Geoff, Izzy, Trent, Gwen, DJ, Izzy, Owen, Heather).
 * This pattern was temporarily broken after Leshawna, who was eliminated after Heather.
 * However, the pattern continued after Leshawna's elimination; Justin, Lindsay, Harold, Courtney, Owen, Beth, and Duncan.
 * This and Barf Bag Ceremony are the only Ceremonies that used for one season.