Winner – Victoria Soto – Some deaths simply define us. And Victoria Soto who was murdered in a rush of bullets while saving her young students defines not just herself but what we all hope we are. Paul Simon played "The Sound Of Silence" at her funeral, but if ever a funeral needed a sound, it was this one. The sound of the children who were saved and the sound of the children of the children yet to be born. And the parents and brothers and sisters and friends… The sound of all these people raising their voice because of one persons sublime bravery.
Loser – Lamb Of God Fans – Randy Blythe requested 60 seconds of silence to honor the memory of the dead children from Newtown, and his fans couldn't provide it. Randy went crazy and certainly it is to misunderstand nihilism, a disrespect for life after to death, to equate it with a a disrespect for life.