KarateForums.com Awards 2004 - You Can Nominate Now!

[Patrick]

Hello.

 

Welcome to the third annual KarateForums.com Awards. These awards are intended to recognize just a few of the outstanding (and humorous) contributions made by KarateForums.com users. These awards will take into consideration all forum activity between October 19, 2003 and October 18, 2004. For instance, users must be nominated based on their activity in this period and threads/articles nominated must have been started/published in this same period of time.

 

You will make your nominations by sending a PM to http://www.karateforums.com/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=2715 - you do not have to nominate for 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.

 

From the most popular nominations, the actual nominees for each award will be chosen and by using the poll system available on these forums, you will be able to vote for the winners!

 

So, without further ado, here are this years categories:

 

1. Member of the Year

 

This award is intended to acknowledge the person who you view as most valuable to the community as a whole. Current staff members (Sempais, Senseis and Administrator) are not able to be nominated in this award.

 

2. Community Spirit Award

 

New this year. This award should go to a person whom you feel posts interesting and insightful comments that exemplify the spirit of KarateForums.com - kind, helpful and encouraging. This award is open to anyone, regardless of their skill level. Regular members and staff members (except for the Administrator) can win this award.

 

3. Staff Member of the Year

 

Basically, the same as Member of the Year, except that this award is for current staff members (Sempais and Senseis, not Administrator) only, if you are unsure of who is on staff, please visit http://www.karateforums.com/staff.php for a complete listing.

 

4. 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. This person should have a good clean sense of humor and can be either a staff member (except for Administrator) or regular member.

 

5. Thread of the Year

 

This award distinguishes your favorite thread from all the others. This thread may have helped you out, taught you something new or just had a great discussion in it. It should be martial arts related and has to have been created between the dates listed above.

 

6. Article of the Year

 

This award distinguishes your favorite article that was published in the KarateForums.com Articles section in the past year (it must have been published in the past year). Whether the article enlightened or inspired you, this is the place to recognize it. Visit our articles section at http://www.karateforums.com/viewforum.php?f=44 for a complete list of articles.

 

7. Funniest Thread of the Year

 

This final award distinguishes this thread as the funniest one of the year. This thread should have made you laugh till you were blue in the face. This thread must exhibit good, clean humor.

 

There are just two nomination rules:

 

1. Only one user/thread/article can be nominated for EACH award. Only one choice per award, in other words.

 

2. You can not nominate yourself, a thread that you have started or an article that you wrote for any of the awards.

 

So, that's all there is to it. Please nominate. We need as many nominations as possible. Once again, you can nominate by sending a PM to http://www.karateforums.com/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=2715 - the due date for nominations will be sometime on November 2.

 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to PM me or reply to this thread. Please do not put your nominations in this thread.

 

Thank you.

[Patrick]

Keep those nominations coming!

 

Thanks.

[Patrick]

Just a note, remember nominations for Article of the Year, Thread of the Year and Funniest Thread of the Year MUST have been started BETWEEN between October 19, 2003 and October 18, 2004. This is to say that the first post of the thread must have a "Posted" date in between this period of time.

 

If you have made a nomination that is older than this (some have), please feel free to submit a new one for that category.

 

Thanks and keep them coming!

[Patrick]

Keep them coming!

[Patrick]

Just a few days left, folks.

[Patrick]

We're a little over a day left. Anyone who has nominated yet, please do!

[Patrick]

Thank you for all of the nominations so far.

 

I will be closing this late tonight, so if you haven't already, please get those last minute nominations in how!

 

Also, on tough ones like Best Thread, etc. you may find yourself with a list of good ones - I recommend picking one and nominating it.

 

Thanks.

[Patrick]

Nominations are now closed.

 

Thank you everyone. Keep an eye out for voting!