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Announcing the 2026 REAction Award Stream

Please tune in on January 24th!

12 January 2026

1–2 minutes

We are thrilled to announce the second annual Room Escape Artist REAction Award ceremony: Saturday, January 24th at 1:00 PM ET.

The REAction Award recognizes people who have taken incredible action in service of the escape room community. The winners of this award have taken initiative and done extraordinary things outside of making top tier escape rooms (although some of them have done that too!) Rather, this award honors projects that make our community more interesting and help it thrive.

If you’re looking for the award honoring incredible games, check out our 2025 Golden Lock Award winners.

Here’s how to tune in for the REAction Award Show.

Award Show Details

Date: Saturday, January 24th
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Link to Watch: coming soon

This is a short award show. There are only a few winners. But their contributions are outsized.

The link to watch will be available on REA on the morning of the award show.

The winners will be announced in a blog post following the award show.

🖋️ Author

Written by

Lisa Spira

Editor-In-Chief at Room Escape Artist: Whether she is editing REA’s content, leading the Hivemind, or wrangling the logistics for RECON or the Escape, Immerse, Explore Tours, Lisa is the reason that everything runs like clockwork. As a linguist and data expert, Lisa also leads our Industry Data efforts and is responsible for our annual Industry Reports. Lisa is the heart of REA and also bakes all of our escakes.