| Most exciting game | Uruguay/Fiji |
| Best referee | Wayne Barnes |
| Best player | Faf de Klerk |
| Most exciting team | Japan |
| Most exciting player | Makazole Mapimpi |
| Most impressive player | Mbongeni Mbonambi |
| Scariest looking player | Isileli Nakajima |
| Most unexpectedly good team performance | Uruguay, for their excellent tackling technique and turnovers against Fiji |
| Most unexpectedly bad team performance | South Africa's error-fest against Namibia |
| Best national anthem | Russia |
| Best Morris dance | Tonga |
| Best kicking dance | Elton Jantjies, for being eminently chargeable at conversions |
| Even I Could Have Kicked That | Dan Biggar, 3 minutes into Wales/Georgia |
| Best facial hair | Jake Ball. I was very disappointed by the poor showing from Canada who have traditionally excelled at this event. |
| Worst facial hair | Maxime Medard's sideburns |
| Best hair | Joe Marler |
| Worst hair | David Ainuu's weird asymmetrical top-knot, even worse than Gorgodzilla's awful hair transplant and Goodhue's mullet. This even was especially well-contested this year. |