1. Funniest Poster of the Year - Akenthen
2. Most Optomistic Poster of the Year - Imo
3. Forum Reporter of the Year - Drew
4. Best Avatar - Heiki
5. Most Knowledgeable Poster of the Year - Steven
6. Most Memorable Moment of the Year A tie on this one: BOBTs I slept with Steven/ Aks characterization (closely followed by Masta K).
7. Most Controversial Poster Er, not going to answer that one
8. Best Newcomer The Hoose (is he a newcomer? Cant really think of others)
9. The Professional Insight Award (Favourite professional player who posts) - Fitzy
10. Overall Poster of the Year - Steven

This year's categories are:
1. Funniest Poster of the Year: Silver
2. Most Optomistic Poster of the Year: Johnnylad
3. Forum Reporter of the Year: ForeverDelayed
4. Best Avatar: The Hoose
5. Most Knowledgable Poster of the Year: DavidC
6. Most Memorable Moment of the Year: Akhenaten's little speech
7. Most Controversial Poster: Ratty
8. Best Newcomer: Peter too
9. The Professional Insight Award (Favourite professional player who posts): Fitzy
10. Overall Poster of the Year: Dn dn dn... Steven

1. Funniest Poster of the Year - eblunt (a)
2. Most Optimistic Poster of the Year - Johnnylad (tho' salmon if we were limiting it to juniors!)
3. Forum Reporter of the Year - Drew (b)
4. Best Avatar - can I say the Count's, even tho I suggested part of it?
5. Most Knowledgable Poster of the Year - Akhenaten (with the help of his brilliant rankings database)
6. Most Memorable Moment of the Year - Masta K's "The horns of Russia to beat you off!!! Rams The Rage does not suffice on you!!!""
7. Most Controversial Poster - Stircrazy (or did you mean controversial about the actual tennis )
8. Best Newcomer - Peter too for overall quality (Hoose, silver, et al are very funny though )
9. The Professional Insight Award (Favourite professional player who posts) - Seator (c)
10. Overall Poster of the Year - Akhenaten (d)

If there were categories for ...

Best double act: "Sheddie and the Count"
The Miles Kasiri "where's he bu**ered off to?" award: Sheddie 

(a) only just ahead of the Hoose, the Count and many others who've made me laugh, but how could I not give it to eblunt who came up with (just to take the RG pick 'em thread) ...

- (to imo): "Oh dear. You've used the phrase justify my faith in him and the name of a French player in the same sentence!"

- "looks like I'm going to have to spend an our in front of the RG live scoreboard to nurse these babies home before I can relax again."

Did he invent GEM too or was that the Hoose?

(b) Others, like wolf, have done a fab job on the bt.net home page, but it's always hard to know exactly who's done what - perhaps home page reporters should be allowed to put their names on their reports? OldEchoMan deserves a mention here too, even if he doesn't report on the forum itself!

(c) plus Fitzy, of course, but Edward deserves a mention for quality, coherent posts and being brave enough to enter the Cincy pick 'em ... and win it!

(d) so hard to choose, since half a dozen or more people here would probably be worthy of poster of the year on any other board, but Akhenaten's rankings are fascinating, he's created a really good resource with the database that underlies them and his caricature of all of us was brilliant

-- Edited by steven at 15:44, 2008-12-15

well well well, look who has stuck hsi head over the parapet - time to take aim!!

and Steven that is Hedge betting at its worst - a blatant attempt to curry favour in the overall poster of the year category. as a result i alter my vote to Akhenaten (i would have voted for him more often, but having a hard to spell name doesnt go down well in my books)

Count Zero wrote:

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well well well, look who has stuck hsi head over the parapet - time to take aim!!

and Steven that is Hedge betting at its worst - a blatant attempt to curry favour in the overall poster of the year category. as a result i alter my vote to Akhenaten (i would have voted for him more often, but having a hard to spell name doesnt go down well in my books)

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And here was me thinking you meant take aim at Sheddie  LOL

If I was 'hedge betting', I wouldn't have posted until 23.59 on 31 December LOL

1. Funniest Poster of the Year - Akhenaten
2. Most Optomistic Poster of the Year - Johnnylad
3. Forum Reporter of the Year - Drew (AMAZING)
4. Best Avatar - Count Zero (always makes me giggle)
5. Most Knowledgable Poster of the Year - PASS. Too many to count.
6. Most Memorable Moment of the Year - Ooooh, the hugely, hugely, hugely entertaining Gabon/Gambia/Zambia (whichever country it was) thread by Akhenaten... (so memorable, I can't remember the country, just all the hilarous stuff that was in it!)
7. Most Controversial Poster - Masta K? I would say so.
8. Best Newcomer (*) - Peter too
9. The Professional Insight Award (Favourite professional player who posts) OOOOOOOOOH. Fitzy for his honesty :P
10. Overall Poster of the Year - Steven (but you're all WONDERFUL!)
I'm not after any votes... honest.

1. Funniest Poster of the Year - Count Zero
2. Most Optomistic Poster of the Year - Fitzy
3. Forum Reporter of the Year - Drew
4. Best Avatar - Count Zero
5. Most Knowledgable Poster of the Year - David C
6. Most Memorable Moment of the Year - Spain F28
7. Most Controversial Poster - Ratty
8. Best Newcomer - Peter Too
9. The Professional Insight Award - Edward Seator esq
10. Overall Poster of the Year - Steven