This year in addition to the main competition, we had four special sponsor challenges that teams could opt-in for. Over the next week or so, we’ll be announcing the winners of those challenges, hand selected by the sponsors.

We’re happy to report that the first of these special awards goes to our friends at Instalover for their SMS-based instant blind dating app. Instalover was chosen by Tropo for the “Best Use of Real-Time Communications” category and the team members are getting some sweet Sonos S5 Music systems for their efforts.

If you haven’t already, check out Instalover. And then surf over to the Tropo Blog, where they have a brief interview with the winning team.