[April 2008] BOTM Nomination Thread

[Guest190829]

This is the nomination thread for Board of the Month of April.

Please note the BOTM Rules here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/info.php?do=botm

Nominations will be accepted until the 31st of March.

When nominating please post the site name, URL to the forum, a short description what makes your board stand out from default vBulletin, and a reason for nomination that will motivate others to second the nomination. If the staff feels that a nomination post is too promotional it will be edited accordingly.

Any sites without a name, URL, description and reason for nomination will NOT be entered into the poll. Please ensure that your nomination is in the format:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sample Nomination
Site Name: vBulletin.org
URL: www.vbulletin.org (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/../) - this must be clickable
Description: Official vBulletin Modifications Site
Reason for Nomination: Not Nominated. This is an example nomination.

When seconding sites, please ensure that you use the same post for the maximum of 3 allowed seconds. Any seconds not located in your first seconding post will not be counted. Please also ensure that you quote the nomination post you are seconding in your post (Use Multi-Quote Option if you are nomination multiple boards). If there is no name or URL provided then the post will be ignored when the nominations are counted.

Also, please make sure that you are seconding a forum that has already been nominated by its forum owner. Any seconds for a forum that has not been nominated yet will be counted as null and void.

Please posts only nominations or seconds, no "Thank you" posts are needed, they clutter the thread and will be deleted.

Any queries regarding the BOTM Contests should be sent via PM to Danny.VBT (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?action=getinfo&username=Danny.VBT).

Best of luck to all nominees!

[MoT3rror]

Site Name: Combat Arenas
URL: www.combatarenas.com
Description: Online Competitive Gaming Site
Reason for Nomination: I am very impressed with the way they have taken their VB and made it almost completely their own. The additions in design that they have made to their template as top noch but classy and professional.

[Theoldwiz]

Site Name: School Converse

URL: http://schoolconverse.com/

Description: Ever need a place to come get school help from real people instead of googling all over the internet for a tutorial? Well, School Converse may be a good idea! You can ask for school help and most of your questions now get answered in less than 1 hour. You can always rely on us! Not the kind of person to ask school questions? Thats ok! Come talk in the lounge about anything you want! If posting is your favorite thing, theres always our exiting forum games section!

We also provide an awsome arcade where once you make your daily post and meet your 5 overall post requirment can play.

Or have you always liked the stock market. Come use your credits to buy some shares and see if you make or lose credits. Its all based off real stocks and its all what the real market is doing, thanks to vBTrader.

We also have a virtual petz system.

All ad free, all free

Reason for Nomination: We really look in to seeing kids get good grades and helping them advance. Free and with no ads, exept a sponser or two but this is how we keep it from YOU ARE THE 1 MILLIONTH VISITOR CLICK HERE FOR YOUR PRIZE or ONLY $50/month for excellent school help. Unlike these, we are free and ad free, and we dont mind that

[Tom_S]

Site Name: Recovery Crossroads
URL: www.recoverycrossroads.com (http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/)
FORUM URL: http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/co...cmps_index.php (http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/community/cmps_index.php)
Description:
Recovery for Alcoholics, Addicts, and anyone with an addiction at Recovery Crossroads offers great information for and a Safe Place in Recovery.
We are a Website that will foster friendships, promote camaraderie and endorse the sharing of knowledge through a foundation that is built on integrity, community involvement, and unity. To unite all types of Recovery who seek to protect and preserve the sacred sanctity of sharing. To encourage sharing recovery and to provide fellowship, both locally and worldwide, and to provide an ever expansive knowledge base of experience, strength, and hope for helping others like us. We will accomplish this by offering a family oriented outlet for the newcomer and veterans alike to not only garner information about their recovery, but will first and foremost; offer the opportunity for its members, and their families, to join in activities that may help them and others.

You can login to mine as:
Username: Guest
PW: password
This way you can see everything. You can't post but you can see everything.

Reason for Nomination:
To respectfully show the work of the software and all of the coders who have helped to provide the opportunity for me to build on their abilities and to be able to help give back to the community of those who seek the help they can now find online. I thank all of those who provide the fine mods that gave me the opportunity to build this website.

[Shazz]

Site Name: School Converse

URL: http://schoolconverse.com/

Description: Ever need a place to come get school help from real people instead of googling all over the internet for a tutorial? Well, School Converse may be a good idea! You can ask for school help and most of your questions now get answered in less than 1 hour. You can always rely on us! Not the kind of person to ask school questions? Thats ok! Come talk in the lounge about anything you want! If posting is your favorite thing, theres always our exiting forum games section!

We also provide an awsome arcade where once you make your daily post and meet your 5 overall post requirment can play.

Or have you always liked the stock market. Come use your credits to buy some shares and see if you make or lose credits. Its all based off real stocks and its all what the real market is doing, thanks to vBTrader.

We also have a virtual petz system.

All ad free, all free

Reason for Nomination: We really look in to seeing kids get good grades and helping them advance. Free and with no ads, exept a sponser or two but this is how we keep it from YOU ARE THE 1 MILLIONTH VISITOR CLICK HERE FOR YOUR PRIZE or ONLY $50/month for excellent school help. Unlike these, we are free and ad free, and we dont mind that


Second :up:

[bluidkiti]

Site Name: Recovery Crossroads
URL: www.recoverycrossroads.com (http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/)
FORUM URL: http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/co...cmps_index.php (http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/community/cmps_index.php)
Description:
Recovery for Alcoholics, Addicts, and anyone with an addiction at Recovery Crossroads offers great information for and a Safe Place in Recovery.
We are a Website that will foster friendships, promote camaraderie and endorse the sharing of knowledge through a foundation that is built on integrity, community involvement, and unity. To unite all types of Recovery who seek to protect and preserve the sacred sanctity of sharing. To encourage sharing recovery and to provide fellowship, both locally and worldwide, and to provide an ever expansive knowledge base of experience, strength, and hope for helping others like us. We will accomplish this by offering a family oriented outlet for the newcomer and veterans alike to not only garner information about their recovery, but will first and foremost; offer the opportunity for its members, and their families, to join in activities that may help them and others.

You can login to mine as:
Username: Guest
PW: password
This way you can see everything. You can't post but you can see everything.

Reason for Nomination:
To respectfully show the work of the software and all of the coders who have helped to provide the opportunity for me to build on their abilities and to be able to help give back to the community of those who seek the help they can now find online. I thank all of those who provide the fine mods that gave me the opportunity to build this website.

Second :up:

[Playa82]

Site Name: Crackmuzik-GFX-Elite
URL: http://crackmuzik-gfx-elite.de
Description: GFX-Site and normal Community about Sigs, Wallpapers, Banners, Designing and many other Sections.
Reason for Nomination: I want to start a big Graphic Community, and it was a hard way to make the site how it looks like now. i know, there are a lot of gfx sites out there, but i want to be the best.

[Mazinger]

Site Name: So7ap Forums
URL: www.so7ap.com (http://www.so7ap.com)
Description: Offtopic & Community Forum
Reason for Nomination: Because there are many cool stylish ideas

[CLF]

Site name: Capper's Lobby

Site URL: www.capperslobby.com (http://www.capperslobby.com)

Description: If you like to talk sports and sports betting, and you love to give your opinion, then Capper's Lobby is the right place. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, horse racing, other sports... NFL, NCAAF, CFL, MLB, NBA, NCAAB, WNBA, FIBA, FIFA, UEFA, MLS, NHL...

Reason for Nomination: Brand new but soon to be one of the best sports handicapping forums on the web. Also, we would love to hear what others have to say about it. Still working on some things.
Thanks for consideration. ;)

[njoker555]

Site Name: Gamers Forum

URL: www.gamers-forum.com (http://www.gamers-forum.com)

Description: we are just your regular gaming forum, online for over a year and a half owning 4 TLDs of the domain and being forwarded to this one to set up a form of trademark. This forum just reached its 1000th member a few days ago and 50,000 post a few weeks ago. It is full of modifications from vB.org such as a Casino, Credits System called GFP for Gamers Forum Points, and of course an active arcade with tournaments running almost all the time, and it is just a great forum. I am happy to call myself owner.

Reason for Nomination: it has been online for over a year and a half, I believe it deserves some sort award or at least knowledge to others that we exist so that we may become bigger and better than ever before. And winning the BOTM just may help us do that.

[Mrquarter]

Site Name: QuarterX
URL: http://www.quarterx.org/forums/
Description: QuarterX is a community where everybody is allowed to express their opinions, chat with their friends, and just have a good time!
Reason for Nomination: The board is original, customized, and still being worked upon to improve everything.

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Site Name: BCMTouring.com

URL: www.bcmtouring.com/forum

Description: BCMTouring is a Road Trip centric travel forum, first and only of its kind in India. Our members belong to diverse age groups and socio-economic backgrounds, yet they are bonded together for their passion for travel and automobiles. It is this passion that initially led me to start BCMTouring in April 2006. Since then we have grown into a flourishing online community of wheel bound 21st century nomads, who eagerly await opportunities to break free from the shackles of responsibility, leaving behind the concrete jungle, to get on their modern day steeds and chariots to explore the length and breadth of India.

Reason for Nomination: We may be small right now, but soon we will be the largest travel forum in India. I feel winning the BOTM would give it just the kind of exposure it needs to succeed.

[SilentNoise]

Site name: Wolf Pack Car Club

URL: http://www.wolfpackcc.com
FORUMS: http://wolfpackcc.com/forum

Desc: Local car club site and forum for domestic V8 performance enthusiasts...... while we're a local organization, not overly concerned with grand exposure or huge membership numbers, our members are very proud of the community and friendships we've built over that time through the love of our cars.

Reason for Nom: Club's been around since the spring of Y2K and after making the jump to vB a few years ago, this is my first real custom style for it.

[deezelpope]

Site Name: The Bad Girl Jammie Club
URL: http://badgirljammieclub.com/
Description: The Bad Girl Jammie Club (BGJC) is a drama-free, community-based website, store, and forum dedicated to those brave souls who prefer to stay in their pajamas all day long, while making new friends.
Reason for Nomination: Because of copyright laws, the BGJC is a not for profit website, and all profits on items in the store, a benefit to our users, go to charity. We are currently talking to the several foundations to see who will be the recipient of the funds.

[cygy2k]

Site Name: CycloneFanatic

URL: www.cyclonefanatic.com (http://www.cyclonefanatic.com)

Description: Biggest Iowa State Cyclone Fansite

Reason for Nomination: With millions of page views each month and constant growth every week of it's 2-yr existence, CycloneFanatic has grown to be the premier stop for all things Iowa State. I'd simply like to recognize the site's moderators for their incredible work making the place the best that it can be. Please join me in recognizing these individuals for their incredible dedication and hard work (without pay).

[AWJunkies]

Site Name: Recovery Crossroads
URL: www.recoverycrossroads.com (http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/)
FORUM URL: http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/co...cmps_index.php (http://www.recoverycrossroads.com/community/cmps_index.php)
Description:
Recovery for Alcoholics, Addicts, and anyone with an addiction at Recovery Crossroads offers great information for and a Safe Place in Recovery.
We are a Website that will foster friendships, promote camaraderie and endorse the sharing of knowledge through a foundation that is built on integrity, community involvement, and unity. To unite all types of Recovery who seek to protect and preserve the sacred sanctity of sharing. To encourage sharing recovery and to provide fellowship, both locally and worldwide, and to provide an ever expansive knowledge base of experience, strength, and hope for helping others like us. We will accomplish this by offering a family oriented outlet for the newcomer and veterans alike to not only garner information about their recovery, but will first and foremost; offer the opportunity for its members, and their families, to join in activities that may help them and others.

You can login to mine as:
Username: Guest
PW: password
This way you can see everything. You can't post but you can see everything.

Reason for Nomination:
To respectfully show the work of the software and all of the coders who have helped to provide the opportunity for me to build on their abilities and to be able to help give back to the community of those who seek the help they can now find online. I thank all of those who provide the fine mods that gave me the opportunity to build this website.

SECOND!

[saotome]

Site Name: Indo-Services Forums
URL: http://forum.indo-services.com
Description: More than one stop service solutions, repairing your cellphone, guide, etc
Reasong for Nomination: Because of copyright laws, we are currently make some benefit, premium members account, banner for rent etc, also free sharing to help other members. improve new skins made from miner-skinz... more solutions guide for cellphone advance

[TCE Killa]

Site Name: Hip Hop Global

URL: http://www.hhglobal.com/forums

Description: This is a great place to talk about rap and hip hop. Such a desired forum with lots of things you can do. Very kind and hard working staff members with such friendly users. This forum has been voted number 1 on a lot of hip hop websites. Whether it is from customizing your profile & post area to playing games in the arcades. Uploading & downloading videos & music to adding your own radio & tv streams. Compare yourself with other users in the advanced statistics area (activity, forum, profile, users, referrers, staff). Check out your horoscopes, while also playing crosswords or sudoku. You can even buy things from the store such as sigs and other features, plus, customize the whole forums style/skin by yourself to create it exactly how you want it.

Reason for Nomination: It is a board forever growing, with kind and hard working staff. The members are friendly to and help out alot... Voted number 1 on 6 different hip hop websites. A fun forum with fun members to join in.

[TrumpetMaster]

Site Name: TrumpetMaster.com

URL: http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb

Description: The premier trumpet site on the web!

Reason for Nomination: TrumpetMaster.com is a very active niche forum with over 7000 members. Our site has a custom skin and uses mods such as photo post classifieds, Vbadvanced links, Wiki and more to give our registered members and guests the best possible forum experience. Thanks for your consideration!

[SEOvB]

Site Name: Madden Forums - Madden Tips, Hints and Strategy
URL: http://maddengods.org/forum
Description: A place to discuss the popular EA Sports video game for consoles and PC Madden NFL Football.
Reason for Nomination: MaddenGods.org has been around only 2 months and is amassing a nice following and stats. With new members joining every day, we have themes for almost every NFL team and provide 100% free information to everyone unlike other Madden fan sites that charge.

[Enclave]

Site Name: KitesurfManiac.com

URL: www.kitesurfmaniac.ch (http://www.kitesurfmaniac.ch)

Description: Kitesurfers around the wold

Reason for Nomination: Only 2 weeks old and all self designed. Vbulletin actually integrated in the whole website all is connected to each other. About 500h work, so a good reason for nominating... :)

[JesusLiv3s]

Site Name: QuarterX
URL: http://www.quarterx.org/forums/
Description: QuarterX is a community where everybody is allowed to express their opinions, chat with their friends, and just have a good time!
Reason for Nomination: The board is original, customized, and still being worked upon to improve everything.

Second! :up::up::up:

[Bacon Butty]

Site Name: GrandOldTeam

URL: www.grandoldteam.com

Description: A soccer website dedicated to an English Premier League side Everton

Reason for Nomination: Only a year old but already has a good core amount of members. The main reason I think GrandOldTeam should be nominated is its originality, I have really tried my upmost to make it stand out from the crowd :)

[veenuisthebest]

Site Name: Tech555.com

URL: www.tech555.com

Description: For All the Tech Info You Need

Reason for Nomination:

The layout and the way of content arranging is really catchy. Ads are displayed only once on Non Index pages so that visitors may never be distracted.

Site is exclusively dedicated to Technology discussion and it has all the relevant Forums whether it being Mobiles, Computers, Programming, Web Development, Graphics and Designing etc.

Its passed not even a WEEK's time since the owner of Tech555 has bought the license and has already dedicated his so many efforts day and night in understanding vBulletin and customising accordingly, proving the site having a great potential.

Thank You

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Site Name: GrandOldTeam

URL: www.grandoldteam.com

Description: A soccer website dedicated to an English Premier League side Everton

Reason for Nomination: Only a year old but already has a good core amount of members. The main reason I think GrandOldTeam should be nominated is its originality, I have really tried my upmost to make it stand out from the crowd :)

SECOND :up:

[snunhuck]

Site Name: ThinkTeen Community
Site URL: http://community.thinkteen.co.uk
Description: A support and community site for teen, by teens :D

Reason of Nomination: Only 3 months old, but very slow at building the community. They've tried to make it work, but is it going to work? All of the forum staff are based in one school which can be a disadvantage, but hey, they're doing well. It kind of does bet me though how they acquired a vBulletin License.

[Brandon Sheley]

Site Name: BCMTouring.com

URL: www.bcmtouring.com/forum

Description: BCMTouring is a Road Trip centric travel forum, first and only of its kind in India. Our members belong to diverse age groups and socio-economic backgrounds, yet they are bonded together for their passion for travel and automobiles. It is this passion that initially led me to start BCMTouring in April 2006. Since then we have grown into a flourishing online community of wheel bound 21st century nomads, who eagerly await opportunities to break free from the shackles of responsibility, leaving behind the concrete jungle, to get on their modern day steeds and chariots to explore the length and breadth of India.

Reason for Nomination: We may be small right now, but soon we will be the largest travel forum in India. I feel winning the BOTM would give it just the kind of exposure it needs to succeed.

Site Name: TrumpetMaster.com

URL: http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb

Description: The premier trumpet site on the web!

Reason for Nomination: TrumpetMaster.com is a very active niche forum with over 7000 members. Our site has a custom skin and uses mods such as photo post classifieds, Vbadvanced links, Wiki and more to give our registered members and guests the best possible forum experience. Thanks for your consideration!

Site Name: Madden Forums - Madden Tips, Hints and Strategy
URL: http://maddengods.org/forum
Description: A place to discuss the popular EA Sports video game for consoles and PC Madden NFL Football.
Reason for Nomination: MaddenGods.org has been around only 2 months and is amassing a nice following and stats. With new members joining every day, we have themes for almost every NFL team and provide 100% free information to everyone unlike other Madden fan sites that charge.
I 2nd these three

nice forums everyone, good luck

[atlambros83]

Site Name: OpTiKaL-iLLuZionz.com

URL: http://www.optikal-illuzionz.com
http://www.optikal-illuzionz.com/forums

Description: OpTiKaL-iLLuZionz.com started out years ago as an online gaming clan forum within the Xbox LIVE and PC gaming community. It quickly became one of the most popular clan forums around but was eventually closed down after the clan disbanded. I have recently brought back the website and revamped it with many modifications and am just now beginning to promote the site again within the old gaming community.

Reason for Nomination: We are only a few months old and are just beginning to gain new members but I feel that the forums look great, and are very well integrated with many modifications.

*Registration is required to view all features.

To view all features I've listed login info below.

Username: test
password: test4356

[cjddrum1]

Site Name: 7THGENHONDA.COM
URL:7thgenhonda (http://www.7thgenhonda.com)
Description: A forum created for 2001-2005 Honda Civic Owners
Reason for Nomination: Great layout, Great members, and less than 1 year old!

[wicked80]

Site Name: CricFever

URL: http://www.cricfever.com

Description: CricFever is a website for cricket fans all around the globe. CricFever provides the latest cricket videos, cricket forums, cricket groups,blogs and many other sections.

Reason for Nomination: We would like to know how we are going as we want to convert our 10K userbase to 100k as early as possible.With the power of vbulletin forum, vbulletin.org mods and vbadvanced we firmly believe we can achieve our goal within two years.If we get nominated, we would consider ourselves lucky as other sites are pretty good as well.

Thanks for time and consideration.

[EvilChicken]

Site Name: TripleChat.com | Plug in :: Play On
URL: www.triplechat.com (http://triplechat.com/)
FOURM URL: www.triplechat.com/forums (http://triplechat.com/forums)
Description: TripleChat has just recently popped into the scene of Gaming sites around the net but unlike others, this site is a bit different. I strive for User Happiness, let me explain. See, when you join this site and its forums, you automatically become part of the site. Your input does not go unnoticed! Everything you say is read over by me or my amazing staff on these forums. So unlike other sites, we improve when you asking to improve. If you want to chat about gaming, then the odds are that we will have a chat about gaming in 24 minutes or less. If you want a cookie, we will laugh a little and tell you to go find a phone book and order a cookie. But that is my point, we will help you!

It isn’t such a matter of great news sources…ok it is a bit, but the fact is we are a great community here to intrigued you and let you in on some insight in the gaming world. Forget all thoughts of huge gaming sites where one comment you make may become a huge flame war. Instead, hang out here with the little big guy.

Another great thing about TripleChat is our Bigger sister site, TripleTags.com. This site has been nothing but our support throughout the launch and even up till now. SectionZ and his team have done a great job in helping and even linking to our site and forums and without them, this site would not be here. So if you ever see or talk to them, thank them!

Reason for Nomination: TripleChat's reason for nomination is simple, the members on the forum have gave me nothing but pats on the back. I know I shouldn't brag but it is hard to when they have been my driving force for this website! Graphics, features, videos, downloads, gaming news, and some random things are the handful of things that I offer and I am always ready to add another word to that list. I am always working on improvements and small edits to the forum to allow for better flow.

I built this site and I have never been prouder.

Thanks, EC :)

[linesider]

Site Name: KitesurfManiac.com

URL: www.kitesurfmaniac.ch (http://www.kitesurfmaniac.ch)

Description: Kitesurfers around the wold

Reason for Nomination: Only 2 weeks old and all self designed. Vbulletin actually integrated in the whole website all is connected to each other. About 500h work, so a good reason for nominating... :)

Second this site. Every now and then a site hits you & makes you go "Oh Crap, My designs suck worse than I thought". This is one of those sites - clean and taking it to the next level...

Oh Crap, now I got to start my site all over again...

[cdanik]

Site Name: School Converse

URL: http://schoolconverse.com/

Description: Ever need a place to come get school help from real people instead of googling all over the internet for a tutorial? Well, School Converse may be a good idea! You can ask for school help and most of your questions now get answered in less than 1 hour. You can always rely on us! Not the kind of person to ask school questions? Thats ok! Come talk in the lounge about anything you want! If posting is your favorite thing, theres always our exiting forum games section!

We also provide an awsome arcade where once you make your daily post and meet your 5 overall post requirment can play.

Or have you always liked the stock market. Come use your credits to buy some shares and see if you make or lose credits. Its all based off real stocks and its all what the real market is doing, thanks to vBTrader.

We also have a virtual petz system.

All ad free, all free

Reason for Nomination: We really look in to seeing kids get good grades and helping them advance. Free and with no ads, exept a sponser or two but this is how we keep it from YOU ARE THE 1 MILLIONTH VISITOR CLICK HERE FOR YOUR PRIZE or ONLY $50/month for excellent school help. Unlike these, we are free and ad free, and we dont mind that

Second this site :up:

[3arab-hero]

site name : 3arab-hero forums

the link: www.3arab-hero.com/vb

description: an arabic general forum it's medium active forum

and i hope to be in April vote


thank you vbulletin

[Brueskie]

Inspired by Chris and advised by Marco that I need to nominate it myself, I'll go ahead and offer up my forum for consideration.

Site Name: Musicians' Nook

URL: http://forum.musiciansnook.com

Description: A discussion forum for the beginning and advanced musician, covering a wide variety of instruments and topics.

Reason for Nomination: I put a lot of work into this and, while the forum is still very much new and lacking a thriving community, I'd like to think that it stands out enough in its present form to be considered. If not, I'll try again once it's had time to mature! :)

[Enclave]

Inspired by Chris and advised by Marco that I need to nominate it myself, I'll go ahead and offer up my forum for consideration.

Site Name: Musicians' Nook

URL: http://forum.musiciansnook.com

Description: A discussion forum for the beginning and advanced musician, covering a wide variety of instruments and topics.

Reason for Nomination: I put a lot of work into this and, while the forum is still very much new and lacking a thriving community, I'd like to think that it stands out enough in its present form to be considered. If not, I'll try again once it's had time to mature! :)

second that one, looks really nice!

[Merrillizer]

Site Name: The Marsh Marauders

URL: marshmarauders.org/forums (http://www.marshmarauders.org/forums)

Description: NH area fishing, hunting & sportsman website and online community.

Reason for Nomination: Small and regional, but original graphics, content & resources. Loads of customization and modifications for members. Throw an underdog a bone! lol. Thanks :D

[Guest190829]

Nominations closed. Good luck to all nominees!