KarateForums.com Awards 2016: Vote For Your Favorites!

[Patrick]

Hello,

Welcome to the voting period of the 15th 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.

You submitted your nominations and, from those, we have our KarateForums.com Awards 2016 nominees. In all, 22 different members have been nominated in the various categories that make up this year's awards. They are Spartacus Maximus, The Pred, IcemanSK, Luther unleashed, LLLEARNER, Alan Armstrong, sensei8, DWx, mazzybear, ninjanurse, Nidan Melbourne, bushido_man96, Zaine, Wastelander, MasterPain, JR 137, MatsuShinshii, Kyonovice, Struggling_Mudansha, yamesu, tallgeese and Lupin1. Congratulations to all of you!

JR 137 and sensei8 lead the nominations with 4 each, followed by Wastelander and DWx, who have 3. Our historical award numbers have been updated and several members have hit amazing milestones. Congratulations to sensei8 on reaching 25 nominations (now with 26), DWx on reaching 20 (22), Wastelander on reaching 10 and Nidan Melbourne (6), mazzybear (6) and Luther unleashed (6) on reaching 5.

With the ballots crafted, it is now time to vote.

What You Should Know Before Voting

1. These awards take into consideration all community activity between October 19, 2015 and October 18, 2016. You should vote based upon activity during this period - not activity prior to or after it.

2. To vote, you must have a KarateForums.com account with at least 10 posts made on or before October 18, 2016.

3. You cannot vote for yourself or an article that you wrote.

4. Your votes will be kept private. We do not publicly reveal who voted for whom.

5. Please do not attempt to artificially inflate our vote totals in any way. This includes, but is not limited to: trading votes, encouraging people to vote 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.

6. Please note that you do not have to vote in every category. You can vote in as many or as few as you would like - please go for as many as you feel comfortable with. The more valid votes we receive, the better!

Categories

The categories are listed below. For each category, you will find a link to the ballot where you can vote.

Member of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/member-of-the-year-vt50109.html

New Member of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/new-member-of-the-year-vt50108.html

Community Spirit Award

http://www.karateforums.com/community-spirit-award-vt50107.html

Staff Member of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/staff-member-of-the-year-vt50106.html

Funniest Member of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/funniest-member-of-the-year-vt50105.html

Karate Contributor of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/karate-contributor-of-the-year-vt50104.html

Jiu-Jitsu and Grappling Martial Arts Contributor of the Year

The community only nominated one member for this category. As such, that member is the winner. The honoree will be announced with the other winners once voting has closed. Please note that the nomination in this category was not counted in our historic totals above, for the sake of suspense, but we will update those numbers once the honoree is announced.

Equipment Contributor of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/equipment-contributor-of-the-year-vt50103.html

Health, Training and Fitness Contributor of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/health-training-and-fitness-contributor-oty-vt50102.html

Instructor Central Contributor of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/instructor-central-contributor-of-the-year-vt50101.html

Article of the Year

http://www.karateforums.com/article-of-the-year-vt50100.html

Vote Now

Please vote.

Voting will be closed on November 22, 2016 at 5 PM ET (GMT/UTC -5). Please do not post your votes in this or any thread.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to private message me or reply here.

Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com. Your participation in these awards is what makes them meaningful. I can't wait to see who you vote for this year.

Sincerely,

Patrick

[mazzybear]

Done!! Good luck everyone. It's been a great year on KF and I've thoroughly enjoyed reading all your posts.

Mo.

[Nidan Melbourne]

Done and Done. Look forward to seeing results

[DWx]

Congratulations and good luck to all the nominees

[bushido_man96]

Congratulations to the nominees, and good luck to all!

[JR 137]

Congratulations to the nominees and best of luck.

[tallgeese]

Congrats and good luck to all!

[sensei8]

Done!! Good luck to all!!

[ninjanurse]

Good luck everyone!!!

[Patrick]

Thank you for the replies and to everyone who has voted so far! We have a little over two days left until voting will close. If you have not yet voted, please take a moment to do so!

Thanks,

Patrick