An all-star team is a group of people all having a high level of performance in their field. Originating in sports, it has since drifted into vernacular and has been borrowed heavily by the entertainment industry .
22-465: The All-Australian team is an all-star team of Australian rules footballers , selected by a panel at the end of each season. It represents a complete team, including an interchange bench, of the best-performed players during the season, traditionally led by that season's premiership coach. Despite the name's implication, the All-Australian team is usually ceremonial in modern times. Though
44-399: A precursor to the All-Australian team was an annual team selected by Sporting Life magazine between 1947 and 1955. A panel of sportswriters at the magazine selected a full team of eighteen from all ANFC -affiliated competitions. For a time, AFL historians considered these teams to be official All-Australian teams, but no longer recognises them as such. The first official All-Australian team
66-429: A sports term refers to individual players named to an "all-star" roster or team representing the top performers (members of such a team were all stars from other teams) during and before the end of a season in a given sport, or to a list of top participants who played in individual sports such as golf and bowling . Events limited to such honorees are referred to as "all-star games" or events. In American team sports
88-713: Is also used in films, often used as a form of publicity gimmick to promote the cast of a movie in which a number of high-profile actors appear, sometimes merely in cameo roles. An archetype is the 1956 version of Around the World in 80 Days . In a similar vein to sporting events, some reality television franchises (such as Dancing with the Stars , Survivor , and RuPaul's Drag Race ) have held all star seasons featuring notable contestants from previous seasons, such as champions, contestants popular among viewers, and notable contestants from international versions of
110-466: Is not equivalent to supergroup , which refers to a group made of already established musicians from other popular bands or with a successful solo career. The All Star DC Comics was an imprint of ongoing American comic book titles published by DC Comics that ran from 2005 to 2008. DC has published two titles under the All-Star banner, featuring Batman and Superman . The premise of the imprint
132-509: Is referred to record labels or a music genre's top musical artists. An example of this includes the single " Pow 2011 " by Lethal Bizzle in which all the featured artists are credited as " Grime All-Stars". Sometimes, labels organize such all-star sessions to release dedicated albums. Examples of this case are the collective This Mortal Coil under the 4AD label, or the Roadrunner United sessions by Roadrunner Records . The term
154-679: Is the annual Senior Bowl which pits the best senior College Football players in the country against one another. These players generally go on to be drafted in the NFL Draft in April. In gaelic games , the term "all-stars" refers to the GAA GPA All Stars Awards . These awards involve picking a fantasy team consisting of the top players in each position in the various sports ( Gaelic football , Ladies' Gaelic football , hurling , rounders and camogie ). The term "all star"
176-541: The Australian Football League (AFL), an annual All-Australian team based on performances during the AFL premiership season was introduced. Since 1999, the All-Australian coach is the coach of the premiership-winning side that year. Prior to 2007, only the final selections in the All-Australian team were announced. Since 2007, the All-Australian selection committee has nominated the 40 leading players of
198-514: The Australian international rules team was mainly composed of All-Australians, and from 2005 to 2013 the team for the annual International Rules Series was selected according to the quite different requirements of International rules football . This change was reverted ahead of the 2014 series , with any player who had been selected at least once in any All-Australian team being eligible for selection. The earliest concept considered to be
220-404: The franchise . These can include entire seasons where the alumni compete against each other, or a spin-off competition with a different format. One such example— Survivor: Winners at War —was intended to celebrate the 40th season of the U.S. version , and featured 20 winners from past seasons competing for a cash prize of $ 2,000,000. Most of its challenges were also reprised from the seasons that
242-528: The 'Bicentennial Carnival'. It took place over four days from 2 March until 5 March, and the matches were played at Football Park and Norwood Oval . Ten teams were involved, including all the states and territories , making it the most heavily contested competition. They were divided into two sections. South Australia , Victoria , Western Australia and New South Wales were in Section One. Although, traditionally, Tasmania had enjoyed more success in
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#1732776892353264-533: The AFL played an All-Star match in 2020 , it was the first in 12 years, and the difference in skill level between the All-Australian team and the nearest international competitor is currently too large for any contest to be competitive. Despite this, some of these players have represented Australia in AFL Academy junior teams up to the age of 18, as more than two-thirds of all AFL Academy representatives have gone on to play at senior AFL level. From 1998 to 2004,
286-535: The cast members had originally competed in. Sometimes, all-star crossovers may be organized between contestants of multiple reality formats; the MTV series The Challenge was originally a competition spin-off of its reality shows The Real World and Road Rules , but later seasons began to increasingly include alumni from other popular reality series such as The Amazing Race , Big Brother , RuPaul's Drag Race , and Survivor . "All-stars" in music terms
308-561: The country's leagues. Finally, the Victorian Association representative team made up the remainder of the group, but selection for this team was not restricted to Victorian Football Association players. If a footballer, now competing elsewhere, had started his career in the Victorian Football Association—such as Terry Wallace , for example—then he was eligible to join the squad. The same rules applied to
330-1235: The identity of the honour. Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: The AFL website recognises players who were named in the VFL/AFL Team of the Year from 1982 to 1990 as having All-Australian status. This was a team picked by Victorian selectors. Teams were named every season from 1982 to 1990, except 1985. Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival Coach: Kevin Sheedy Coach: John Todd Adelaide Carnival Coach: Tom Hafey Perth Carnival Perth Carnival Adelaide Carnival Hobart Carnival Brisbane Carnival Melbourne Carnival Perth Carnival Adelaide Carnival These teams were once considered to be equivalent to All-Australian selection, but are no longer recognised as such. All-star "All-star" as
352-481: The interstate arena than New South Wales , the latter had 22 VFL players in its squad compared to the island state's 15, which helped them obtain the final Section One spot. Section Two was occupied by the Australian Capital Territory , Northern Territory , Queensland , Tasmania and two non-regional teams. The Australian Amateurs was one of those, a squad of amateur players from across
374-414: The other teams, so, if a Tasmanian-born player had started his career at West Perth , he could be selected for either Tasmania or Western Australia. Attendances at the tournament were lower than expected, and overall the tournament ran at a $ 30,000 loss. The team was originally to have received a $ 40,000 prize, with incrementally lower prizes for all other states; however, these prizes were abandoned due to
396-535: The premier all-star games are the Major League Baseball All-Star Game , NBA All-Star Game (basketball), Pro Bowl (football), NHL All-Star Game (hockey), and MLS All-Star Game (soccer). Many all-star teams, such as collegiate "all-conference" and All-America squads, are recognitions of performance only, without the connotation of those selected ever being teammates in a game. The closest college sports come to an "All-star" game
418-485: The senior All-Australian team, each year an All-Australian is announced based on the AFL National Under 18 Championships and the AFL National Under 16 Championships . The following lists are for senior teams only. Members of the All-Australian team are awarded a team blazer , reminiscent of the formal wear traditionally worn by travelling members of national sports teams. Blazers have become synonymous with
440-631: The year in their playing positions at the conclusion of the home and away season, before announcing the final 22 at a later date during the All-Australian Presentation Dinner. The squad was increased to 44 in 2022. The 2023 All-Australian selection panel consists of chairperson Gillon McLachlan , Kevin Bartlett , Eddie Betts , Jude Bolton , Nathan Buckley , Kane Cornes , Andrew Dillon , Glen Jakovich , Laura Kane , Cameron Ling , and Matthew Pavlich . In addition to
462-604: Was selected in 1953, immediately after the Australian Football Carnival , which was held in Adelaide on that occasion. Based solely upon performances at the carnival, the All-Australian team was selected by representatives of the various state teams. This tradition continued at all subsequent interstate carnivals until 1988. In 1991, following the VFL's conversion to a national competition and its renaming as
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#1732776892353484-500: Was to partner DC Comics' top tier characters with the most popular and acclaimed writers and artists. 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival The 1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival was the 22nd edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football State of Origin competition. Australia was celebrating its Bicentenary in 1988 , so the carnival was known as
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