STRAP IN, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER IN A VERY LITTLE TIME!

For the past two years running I have been your Master of Ceremonies in gathering around our proverbial fireside to recall, reminisce, recollect, and regale some of the best posts and challenges that we had seen in the year before. And, well, the time has come do to it yet again.

Many thanks to u/Kvothealar for hosting the monthly "Best Of" challenges in order to try to make this post a little easier in the end and give more of the challenges that took place earlier in the year a fairer chance. Unfortunately, sometimes an idea doesn't pan out quite the way we'd hoped, so effective immediately we will be discontinuing the monthly "Best Of" series in hopes we find a better solution.

BUT without further ado, here are this year's categories!

Da Categoriez:

1. Best Of the "Best Of"
2. Most Wholesome Challenge
3. Hardest Challenge
4. Most Original or Fun Challenge
5. Best Community Challenge
6. Coolest User Flair
7. Aces Wild! (Can be any challenge from the sub in the past year!)

Da Rulez:

Every user is invited to nominate their favourite posts/users in each respective category. If it's a category about challenges, you nominate challenges. If it's a category about a user, you nominate a user. Simple stuff. Here's the kicker, though, you can't nominate your own challenges or yourself. Doing so will get you disqualified (DQ).

This should also go without saying, but if a user is currently banned from r/GoForGold, they are not eligible to participate or be nominated.

NOMINATIONS: Each category will have its own top-level comment. To nominate a challenge for a category, reply to the corresponding category header. For example, if you want to nominate a challenge for "Most Wholesome Challenge", please reply to the following comment: Most Wholesome Challenge. Every nominee must come from this year's best of the Best Of Monthly collection.

EVERY NOMINEE MUST COME FROM THIS YEAR'S BEST OF THE MONTH COLLECTION!

It can be any of the nominees from the year, they don't have to have won that month's Best Of.

VOTING: The post will be put into Contest Mode. Please upvote the nominations that you thought were great! Please do not downvote any nominations.

If you have any questions, there is a Questions category we will be monitoring. Lastly, if you see a repeat nomination (within the same category), please report the newer of the two as a repeat.

For Best Of the Best Of, the winner will receive our mod award, Modobtainium, giving them a whopping six months of reddit premium! This award is equivalent to a Ternion All-Powerful! For all other categories, the top 3 nominees will all win Goldinum, which is equivalent to platinum. All award winners will also earn flairs and will be featured in our Hall Of Fame!

That's it, that's the game, you can turn off the TV's and go home now. BUT if you'd like to stick around, Hunter and Mark have done wonderful jobs getting this beautiful markdown table created for us so we have all the users that are eligible in the right place. Thanks guys :*

This challenge will go on for 14 days to give enough time for all timezones to remember it's even going on right now, check in, forget a few times, then finally cast their votes ;)