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Love or hate the Game Awards, we can all agree on one thing about this year’s show: acceptance speeches were comically short. Even host Geoff Keighley thinks so.
Winners’ acceptance speeches — or, rather, those able to speak as the Game Awards 2023 had multiple quick-fire awards segments were victors will merely named and not able to deliver an acceptance speech — were set at a measly 30 seconds as part of the 2023 show.
“By the way – I do agree that the music was played too fast for award winners this year,” Keighley said. The host continued on to say that he “asked our team to relax [the 30 seconds] rule as the show went on”.
Keighley also stressed that no winners were fully were cut off by music intended to play them off stage, but that the issue would be “something to address going forward”.
Twitter’s Hayley Elise did an analysis of the awards show, finding that winners’ speeches took up 10 minutes of total airtime. That’s compared to 13.5 minutes of musical numbers (Old Gods of Asgard FTW), 26.5 minutes for those presenting awards, 42.5 minutes of other presenters, and a whopping 1 hour and 28 minutes of trailers and ads.
What did you make of the Game Awards 2023? Do you like the barrage of trailers, or would you rather have had all those who won an award be able to speak to their win? Sound off in the comments section, below.
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