KarateForums.com Awards 2022: Vote For Your Favorites!

[Patrick]

Hello,

Welcome to the voting period for 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.

You submitted your nominations and, from those, we have our KarateForums.com Awards 2022 nominees. In all, 12 different members have been nominated in the various categories that make up this year's awards. They are aurik, scohen0300, Zaine, DarthPenguin*, Tyler*, sensei8, bushido_man96, Nidan Melbourne, crash*, ashworth, GS718Trek*, and Wastelander. Congratulations to all of you! An asterisk (*) denotes a first-time nominee!

bushido_man96 was nominated in 4 categories, the most of any member, followed by ashworth and sensei8 with 3. Our historical award numbers have been updated and new milestones have been reached!

Congratulations to bushido_man96 on being the first member to reach 55 nominations (now with 58, 1st all-time)! sensei8 has hit 45 (now with 47, 2nd all-time). Congrats Bob!

Congratulations as well to Nidan Melbourne on reaching 10 (tied 9th all-time) and ashworth and aurik on reaching 5 (both tied 23rd all-time).

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, 2021 and October 18, 2022. You should vote based upon activity during this period - not activity before or after.

2. To vote, you must have a KarateForums.com account with at least 10 posts made on or before October 18, 2022.

3. You cannot vote for yourself.

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

https://www.karateforums.com/member-of-the-year-vt55491.html

New Member of the Year

https://www.karateforums.com/new-member-of-the-year-vt55490.html

Community Spirit Award

https://www.karateforums.com/community-spirit-award-vt55489.html

Staff Member of the Year

https://www.karateforums.com/staff-member-of-the-year-vt55488.html

Funniest Member of the Year

https://www.karateforums.com/funniest-member-of-the-year-vt55487.html

Karate Contributor of the Year

https://www.karateforums.com/karate-contributor-of-the-year-vt55486.html

Health and Fitness Contributor of the Year

https://www.karateforums.com/health-and-fitness-contributor-of-the-year-vt55485.html

Instructors and School Owners Contributor of the Year

https://www.karateforums.com/instructors-and-school-owners-contributor-oty-vt55484.html

Vote Now

Please vote.

Voting will be closed on November 26, 2022 at 8pm Eastern (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

[Patrick]

Thank you to everyone who has voted so far! If you haven't, please do! This is a quick, easy way to recognize some of your favorite members here at KarateForums.com. Every vote matters! Please take a few minutes and vote in the polls above. I appreciate it.

[Patrick]

Voting closes today! There's still time to get those last minute votes in. Thank you to everyone who has participated thus far, as every vote makes a difference.

Patrick

[Patrick]

Voting is now closed! Thank you to everyone who voted. Results will be revealed soon.