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We have a bit over 48 hours left in nominations! If you haven't done so yet, please do. Every ballot makes a big difference, even if you don't feel comfortable nominating in all categories. Thanks!

Thanks for the update, Bob. Will be thinking good thoughts.

Thank you for the kind words. Did anyone else dress up? Patrick

Thank you to everyone who has nominated thus far! The deadline has been extended to November 8. If you haven't had a chance yet, please nominate! It's quick, easy, and a great way to recognize your fellow members! Thanks, Patrick

We dressed up as casual Ghostbusters with Stay Puft for the baby's first Halloween! What did you and/or your family dress up as? http://www.karateforums.com/img/photos/patrick-halloween-2022.jpg Patrick

That's awesome, DarthPenguin. And I like the werewolf, too, Ken. What we ended up with was: - Orange lights next to a window. - Carving two pumpkins (one of which I used first as leg holes for the baby for photos). - A pumpkin (not real) with his name on it, lit by LEDs. - A faux neon sign of a skeleton that waves. - These paper bags that have Nightmare Before Christmas Characters on them with led lights within. As I mentioned, he's a big lights person, so he was into all of it.

Hello, Welcome to the 21st annual KarateForums.com Awards! Through these awards, we recognize just a few of the individuals who have made outstanding contributions to KarateForums.com in the past year. Over the last 20 years, we have honored 164 different members with a nomination and 65 with an award. Both of these numbers will grow again this year. Your participation is vital. It is the members of this community who select the nominees and vote for the winners. What You Should Know Before Nominating 1. Review the KarateForums.com Awards 2022 Nominations Guide, which can serve as a starting point in filling out your ballot. 2. These awards take into consideration all community activity between October 19, 2021 and October 18, 2022. Members must be nominated based upon their activity in this period. 2. To nominate, you must have a KarateForums.com account with at least 25 posts made on or before October 18, 2022. 3. Only one member can be nominated for each award. In other words, you cannot nominate two members for Member of the Year. You have to pick one person. One person can be nominated for more than one award, however. 4. A nominated member must have contributed to KarateForums.com or to the specific section recognized by an award within the above date period. 5. You cannot nominate yourself for any of the awards. 6. Your nominations will be kept private. We do not publicly reveal who nominated whom. 7. Please do not attempt to artificially inflate our nomination totals in any way. This includes, but is not limited to: Trading nominations, encouraging people to nominate indiscriminately (publicly or privately), sending spam and any other behavior that could lead to results being artificially skewed. Members found to be participating in these activities will be disqualified from nomination in any category. 8. Though it is unlikely to occur, a banned member cannot be nominated. 9. Please note that you do not have to nominate in every category. You can nominate for as many or as few as you would like. Please go for as many as you feel comfortable with. The more valid nominations we receive, the better! From these nominations, the ballot for each award will be chosen, consisting of the top 4 nominees plus ties. Through the poll system available on these forums, you will be able to vote for the winners! Categories Important note: All members (including Sempais and Senseis) are eligible for nomination in any category, except where otherwise noted. However, I (Patrick) am ineligible for nomination in any category. 1. Member of the Year This award is intended to acknowledge the member who you feel best exemplifies the qualities that KarateForums.com puts a premium on. Knowledge is valuable, but most valuable is a kind and helpful nature. 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If you are unsure of who is on staff, please visit http://www.karateforums.com/staff.php for a complete listing. 5. Funniest Member of the Year Humor is an important aspect of the forums and this award recognizes the member who has brought a smile to your face many times. 6. Karate Contributor of the Year This award is for your favorite contributor within the Karate forum - a member who has added substantial value to that section in the past year. 7. Health and Fitness Contributor of the Year This award is for your favorite contributor within the Health and Fitness forum - a member who has added substantial value to that section in the past year. 8. Instructors and School Owners Contributor of the Year This award is for your favorite contributor within the Instructors and School Owners forum - a member who has added substantial value to that section in the past year. Ready to Nominate? Please nominate. 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Hello, Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2022 edition of the KarateForums.com Awards! To aide you in doing so, we publish this guide, where we list the members qualified for our New Member of the Year award and those who have made the most posts in the sections that are represented within our KarateForums.com Awards categories. We recognize that it can sometimes be difficult to choose nominees and hope that this guide will be helpful. How to Use This Guide Post count is not necessarily what you should look at when deciding who should be honored. Perhaps someone doesn't post as much as others, but when they do, their posts are amazing. Maybe they made a post that really stood out to you and you want to recognize them for it. Maybe someone makes a lot of short posts in that section. For this reason, for the forum sections that are featured in our KarateForums.com Awards categories, we are going to list the top 10 posting members from the last 12 months, plus ties, but without the actual number of posts and in alphabetical order. Our goal here is to provide a useful guide, but also to not prejudice the nominations toward only those with the highest quantities of posts. For the New Member of the Year category, we will list all members who have qualified based on registration date and the number of posts they have made. We hope this will provide you with a reasonable starting point for your nominations. However, except for the New Member of the Year category, you can nominate members who are not listed here at all, and I encourage you to conduct your own research by viewing and thinking about a member's posts within a given section as you put together your ballot. Nominations Guide With that said, here are the members who have qualified for our New Member of the Year award, in alphabetical order: New Member of the Year DarthPenguin R5ky smuraix1 Tyler And here are the top 10 contributors to award-eligible forums, plus ties, in alphabetical order: Karate Contributor of the Year aurik bushido_man96 DarthPenguin GS718Trek Himokiri Karate Miick 11 sensei8 tatsujin Tyler Zaine Health and Fitness Contributor of the Year ashworth aurik bushido_man96 crash DarthPenguin R5ky scohen0300 sensei8 smuraix1 tatsujin vergil96 Zaine Instructors and School Owners Contributor of the Year ashworth aurik bushido_man96 crash GS718Trek Nidan Melbourne scohen0300 sensei8 tatsujin Wastelander Zaine For the full details on submitting your nominations, please see our nominations announcement. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly or ask in that thread. Thanks, Patrick

I just noticed that John (Zaine) is sitting at an even 2,000 posts! That's massive. and he's only the 36th member to reach that mark. Thank you for all of the amazing contributions that you have made to our community over the years, John. Patrick

You can find more photos here, Bob: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/130-Woodlawn-Dr-NE_Marietta_GA_30067_M65595-76520

I am going to go ahead and split this off into its own thread. Welcome to KF, mitzipunk4. Patrick

Agreed on this potentially being a fitting end. I think Silver could have been ended in the first episode or two, if only anyone had thought to record the words coming out of his mouth.

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We recognize one member every month as the KarateForums.com Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. Our honoree for September is... aurik for the second time! Congrats! Thank you for all of the contributions that you have made over the last (nearly!) 6 years! Thanks, Patrick

Hey all, For those that celebrate... do you have a favorite decoration for Halloween? I am putting things up around the apartment for the baby. He loves lights, haha. Patrick

I've finished it. Another great, entertaining season. Finally, the adults cause more trouble than the kids. I don't understand why they got in that limo, lol. But they certainly managed to sober up fast.

Congrats. Happy for you and Zach.

This thread initially had an empty subject line because of an issue with our community software, making it hard to access it. For this reason, I wanted to bump it up one time to ensure others will see it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks.

Congrats John! Thanks for sharing this with us. Patrick

Thanks for coming back, Bobd400.

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We recognize one member every month as the KarateForums.com Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. Our honoree for August is... tallgeese for the second time! Congrats Alex. Thank you for your contributions over the years. Thanks, Patrick

Edited the initial post because I accidentally said it was for the second time when this was actually R5ky's first time being honored. Sorry about that.

+1!

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We recognize one member every month as the KarateForums.com Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. Our honoree for July is... R5ky! Congrats R5ky! It's great to see a new member jump in with such great contributions! We appreciate you being a part of our community. Thanks, Patrick

Haha, just kidding. I will say that the trailer has me concerned though because Cobra Kai is spreading toward Hollywood! Keep that stuff in Reseda!

Congrats John. Patrick