This year’s Monitoring Center Excellence Awards looked a bit different than usual. While the awards have historically been announced live at the Electronic Security Expo (ESX) annually held in the summer, due to COVID-19 the in-person awards were canceled, along with ESX. The commemoration of this year’s recipients of the Monitoring Center Excellence Awards was not lost, however. In lieu of an in-person celebration, The Monitoring Association (TMA) held a virtual ceremony in June, in which Karyn Hodgson, editor-in-chief of SDM, congratulated the finalists and unveiled this year’s award recipients to online viewers.