On August 1, 2008, America's Debate will celebrate our sixth anniversary!

We are pleased once again to open the nominations for our annual Year in Review. Now is the time for you to vote for the best of
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Here's the run down on how all this works.

For the first phase, members are invited to nominate candidates for each different award category. This forum (Year in Review) is specifically dedicated to this purpose.

In this Year in Review forum, you will notice that there are many topics that have been started. Each topic is a different award category.

NOTE: Members may not start new topics in the Year in Review forum during the nomination process, but may reply in all nomination category topics.

Each member may nominate one and only one nominee for each award category.

Please nominate the best candidate for each category, whether it has already been nominated or not. Second, third, and other follow up nominations will help determine the finalists.

NOTE: Multiple nominations in the same category from the same member will be deleted.

Members are also discouraged from posting comments about other members' nominations, as this will lead to excessively long threads. These types of posts will be deleted. However, in your nominating posts, members are welcome to submit a short statement detailing your reasons for your nomination, if you are so inclined.

The first post in each topic outlines the minimum information required for acceptance of a nomination. This will usually be a link to a specific topic, or a specific member name.

On or around July 1, 2008, the nomination phase will end, and the nomination posts will be closed. The nominations will be evaluated, and polls will be built containing the nominees.

Then, on or around July 7, 2008, the official voting will begin.

This voting remains open until July 26, 2008.

At that point, the polls will be moved off the forum to allow for preparation of the list of winners of the Year in Review. The winners will be first announced on our official six year anniversary, August 1, 2008.

Please direct any questions you have regarding the Year in Review to this topic: Questions Regarding YIR 07-08.

Good luck, and happy voting!

Jaime

Don't forget! We will be closing the nominations sometime during the early part of next week. Get your nominations in NOW!!!

Thanks to everyone who has participated so far.

Well, it's not early in the week, but no matter. I will be closing the nominations tonight, probably around midnight eastern time. Last call for nominations!