How Do You Determine Awards

It's quite simple really. I measure an extension based on a few weighted areas, compute the score, and award the top extensions.

The areas are as follows:

Performance - 20 points - How fast is the extension? How many queries does it execute?
Usability - 20 points - How easy is the extension to use!
Extensibility - 10 points - How easy is it to extend the functionality?
Expandability - 10 points - How well does the extension handle large ammounts of data?
Stability - 10 points - How Stable is the component (Don't use it if it's under 5, and you're NOT a programmer)
Community Support - 10 points - Does the extension have an active development community?
License - 10 points - 10 for GPL compatable, 5 for other Open Source, 0 for non-open source
Usefullness - 10 points - How useful of an extension is it?

Awards are given out as follows

Platinum Award - 90+ points
Gold Award - 80 - 90 points
Silver Award - 70 - 80 points
Bronze Award - 60 - 70 points
Stay Away Award - Not dependant on points. Issued if extension corrupts any part of the Joomla database, uses a rediculous amount of queries, or is otherwise a plain bad idea.