Here are the Blade Show winners

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I've looked everywhere (Blade Magazine's website, Knife News, instagram, other forums) and can't find any list of the winners at Blade Show. Just curious if anyone here had a list of the award winners.

Thanks!

[6/7/2021] Update, just so everyone sees it (I also updated the thread title):

Knife of the year awards: https://blademag.com/blade-show/2022-blade-show-knife-of-the-year-award-winners/amp

Custom knife awards: https://blademag.com/uncategorized/2022-blade-show-custom-knife-award-winners/amp
 
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I'm only aware of a few. I know Bradford Knives won the award for best Kitchen knife, Bill Ruple was inducted into the Blade Magazine Hall of Fame, and the kids who won the Balisong contest look exactly like the sort of high school rejects you'd expect. Other than that, no idea. I know a bunch of awards were given out in the Pit on Saturday night, but a full list seems to have not been uploaded as yet.
 
Quiet said:
I'm only aware of a few. I know Bradford Knives won the award for best Kitchen knife, Bill Ruple was inducted into the Blade Magazine Hall of Fame, and the kids who won the Balisong contest look exactly like the sort of high school rejects you'd expect. Other than that, no idea. I know a bunch of awards were given out in the Pit on Saturday night, but a full list seems to have not been uploaded as yet.
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Hey...comon...I finished high school...

(almost didn't because apparently I owed the library 3$ and they don't let you graduate for that)
 
Does it seem like every winner is some kind of re-hash of an existing design? I agree that Paragon in innovative, but the design has been around for a while.
 
So, is that Military 2 a compression lock? I thought Sal wanted it to be a different lock. I should probably wander over to the Spyderco sun forum now
 
WValtakis said:
Yeah, the Malibu Operator as knife of the year is pretty underwhelming 🙄
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Not sure I understand that myself. I find the Malibu as a whole fairly underwhelming, but that's just my take after handling it. Sure love the mileage Protech is getting out of those Terzuola models as well. "Why buy an actual Terzuola, when you can buy a spiffed up production knife instead?" 🤣 🤣
 
Hackenslash said:
Does it seem like every winner is some kind of re-hash of an existing design? I agree that Paragon in innovative, but the design has been around for a while.
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Pretty much. You can't tell from the pictures, but the MKM Miura is an integral button lock, which is novel to me.

Quiet said:
Not sure I understand that myself. I find the Malibu as a whole fairly underwhelming, but that's just my take after handling it. Sure love the mileage Protech is getting out of those Terzuola models as well. "Why buy an actual Terzuola, when you can buy a spiffed up production knife instead?" 🤣 🤣
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Doesn't the Malibu winning make the "American-Made Knife Of The Year" award a runner-up? I guess Blade has bills to pay...
 
OrangeBlueOrangeBlue said:
Pretty much. You can't tell from the pictures, but the MKM Miura is an integral button lock, which is novel to me.


Doesn't the Malibu winning make the "American-Made Knife Of The Year" award a runner-up? I guess Blade has bills to pay...
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Seems that way. Of course, glad that Spyderco is finally giving Military fans what they've always wanted. Only took 'em what, like fifteen years?
 
Gotta say, those are pretty underwhelming choices. Was the competition especially weak this year, or is this how it usually is and I’m only aware of standout winners from the past?
 
RousingRabbles said:
Gotta say, those are pretty underwhelming choices. Was the competition especially weak this year, or is this how it usually is and I’m only aware of standout winners from the past?
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I have no idea, because I must have walked past like a hundred tables this past weekend that had knives that blow both the overall and American winners absolutely outta the water.
 
Some well-deserved custom show awards. Those miniature scissors are amazing, and apparently Vince Evans can make two hells of a swords lol. That cinquedea is incredible, and the long double-fullered gladius or spatha is nothing to sneeze at.
 
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Aren't these kind of competitions usually rigged and acting as a kind of courtesy to emblematic brands ?
 
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