Happy Holidays!

It time to look back on the year and celebrate some of the fascinating and inspiring science that has happened.

We have 40,000 coins to give out and have used an extremely scientific formula to assign the proper point values to each award. Each user will only be eligible to win one award, so they will receive the prize worth the most points if a given user wins multiple awards.

The awards are as follows:

Most Interesting Paper

• Gold: 5455 coins

• Silver: 1842 coins

• Bronze: 589 coins

Most Interesting Question During an AMA or Panel Discussion

• Gold: 5478 coins

• Silver: 1840 coins

• Bronze: 549 coins

Best ELI5

• Gold: 5466 coins

• Silver: 1815 coins

• Bronze: 565 coins

Most Interesting Paper Below 1000 Karma

• 5456 coins

Most Significant Paper

• 5498 coins

Water is… dry?(Most interesting result debunking conventional wisdom)

• 5447 coins

Voting will be open until 1/15/2019. Any particular results can be discussed as a reply to the nomination for that particular post. Please keep any meta discussion to the stickied meta discussion post

Edit: We're going to extend the contest through the weekend so we have a bit more time to gather results. Also, We'll be updating the prize values since I can't directly give coins and instead need to give prizes