The indie game "Azure Mountain" won many nominations in the 2018 TGA of "Fairy Fight" with its excellent qualities, and finally won two awards: "Best Indie Game" and "Most Influential Game". Recently, YouTuber PrestigeIsKey (aka Ryan B.) was surprised to learn that someone on a used commodities trading platform was selling the TGA "Best Indie Game" trophy that the Azure Mountain team won four years ago.
Ryan is a big TGA fan, and initially he just wanted to buy a copy of the TGA trophy to play with, so he looked up related items on various shopping sites. Eventually he found one on eBay for $500. But he took a closer look and found that the trophy was not a replica, but a real TGA trophy.
The product display image is a photo of the well-known anchor Ninja presenting the "Best Indie Game" trophy to the "Azure Mountains" team at the 2018 TGA, and the product information reads: "This item comes from one of our customs clearance sources, and there is no comment beyond that." ”
Ryan decided to sell it, and by the way, he also talked about the price, and spent $375 plus some shipping. When he received the goods, he found that it really seemed to be the TGA trophy that the "Azure Mountains" team won. He then contacted Heidy Motta, the operations manager for the Azure Mountains team, to return the trophy to them.
Ryan asked, "Was the trophy given away or lost?" Heidy Motta replied: "We never received a trophy. Presumably, this may be because after the awards ceremony, the organizers took the trophy back first and mailed it to the game team afterwards, but there may have been some problems at the customs clearance.
Ryan has now mailed the trophy to extremely OK Games, the azure mountain development team, which has also said that it will reimburse Ryan for various expenses and will also give him several copies of the azure mountain game with a signature to thank him.