Inside Asian Gaming announces Official Nominations for 2023 IAG Academy IR Awards

Asia-Pacific’s leading B2B gaming and leisure industry media company Inside Asian Gaming is pleased to announce the official nominees for the 2023 IAG Academy IR Awards.

The official nominations have been selected from no less than a colossal 432 public nominations, with the winners to be announced at a gala dinner to be held at The Ballroom at Hilton Manila, Newport World Resorts, on the evening of Wednesday 13 September 2023.

The IAG Academy IR Awards form part of IAG’s Super September, which also comprises social networking event Manila After Dark on the evening of 12 September and the IAG Academy Summit on 13 and 14 September.

“First of all I would like to thank all of those people who took the time to make public nominations,” said IAG Vice Chairman and CEO, Andrew W Scott.

“An enormous amount of effort went into the nominations and some of the PDFs and videos that were submitted were really works of art. It was an incredibly difficult job to cull down the 432 public nominations to these 117 official nominations and a lot of excellent nominations ended up on the cutting room floor.

Just being a nominee in this list is really an achievement to be proud of. And to those who didn’t make the cut, please do not be disheartened, there were a lot of worthy contenders there, and please try again next year!”

The 117 official nominations are divided across the 20 primary categories and three Hall of Honor categories as follows:

CATEGORY	NOMINATIONS
	Public	Official
01. Best Overall Architectural Impact of an IR	20	5
02. Best IR Resort Attraction	24	5
03. Best Overall Retail Offering by an IR	17	4
04. Best Overall F&B Offering by an IR	21	4
05. Best Hotel Attached to an IR	32	5
06. Best Slot Solution	23	5
07. Best ETG Solution	11	4
08. Best Table Game Solution	21	4
09. Best Membership Program	27	4
10. Best Gaming Floor	17	5
11. Best CSR Initiative	18	4
12. Best Overall CSR Program	17	5
13. Best Legal and Compliance Program	14	4
14. Best IR Workplace	25	5
15. Best Corporate Image	15	5
16. Best Industry Solution	15	4
17. Best Industry Innovation	11	4
18. Best Industry Supplier	18	6
19. Best Regional Asia-Pacific IR	12	5
20. Best Integrated Resort	17	4
Hall of Honor: Rising Stars	25	10
Hall of Honor: Industry Icons	17	10
Hall of Honor: Outstanding CEO	15	6
	432	117

The official nominations are as follows:

1. Best Overall Architectural Impact of an IR

Crown Resorts for Crown Sydney
Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Macau
Marina Bay Sands
Sands China Limited for Londoner Macao
Sands China Limited for Parisian Macao

2. Best IR Resort Attraction

Bloomberry Resorts Corporation for the Sky Range Shooting Club, Solaire
Galaxy Entertainment Group for the Grand Resort Deck, Galaxy Macau
Marina Bay Sands for the SkyPark Observation Deck
Melco Resorts & Entertainment for the Studio City Water Park
Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment for the Fountain at Okada Manila

3. Best Overall Retail Offering by an IR

Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Promenade
The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands
Sands China Limited for Shoppes at Londoner
Sands China Limited for Shoppes at Venetian

4. Best Overall F&B Offering by an IR

Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Macau
Marina Bay Sands
Melco Resorts & Entertainment for City of Dreams Macau
SJM Resorts for Grand Lisboa

5. Best Hotel Attached to an IR

Londoner Court at The Londoner Macao
The Marina Bay Sands hotel
Hotel Okura Manila at Newport World Resorts
The Ritz-Carlton at Galaxy Macau
The Wynn Palace hotel

6. Best Slot Solution

Aristocrat for Dragon Link
Aruze for Fu Lai Cai Lai Link
IGT for Ying Fu Wa Link
Konami for Ba Fang Jin Bao
Light & Wonder for Duo Fu Duo Cai Grand

7. Best ETG Solution

Interblock for Interblock stadiums
Light & Wonder for Quartz standalone
Light & Wonder for Fusion stadiums
LT Game for live multi-game stadiums

8. Best Table Game Solution

Abbiati for Abbiati tables
Angel Group for Angel Eye Complete
Light & Wonder for GM Atlas
Walker Digital Table Systems for Perfect Pay

9. Best Membership Program

Galaxy Entertainment Group for Privilege Club
MGM China for Mlife
Newport World Resorts for Epic Rewards
Okada Manila for Reward Circle

10. Best Gaming Floor

Bloomberry Resorts Corporation for Solaire
Galaxy Entertainment Group for Galaxy Macau
Marina Bay Sands
Sands China Limited for The Venetian Macao
Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment for Okada Manila

11. Best CSR Initiative

NagaCorp for the Environmental Care Program
Galaxy Entertainment Group for the IR Youth Development Program
MGM China for Artistic Swimming Elite Extravaganza
Wynn Macau for the Wynn Cup (Macau Primary School Student National Education Drawing Competition)

12. Best Overall CSR Program