Site Name: Friar Nation

URL: http://sdfriars.com

Description: A San Diego Padres Fan Site & Forums

Reason for Nomination: It's the only Padres fan site on the net using vBulletin! :)

I'm kind of late for this, but I've been nominated at one point on vB.com for my site. Since then, it's changed focus and the layout has been modified (and improved).

Site Name: Simplify Racing Development Community
URL: http://simplify.ws/
Description: A medium of communication for a team of automotive enthusiasts for modifications, autox, and regular meets.
Reason(s) for Nomination:

• Completely rehauled layout for user friendliness and simplicity (Built from scratch and notepad).
• Tightly integrated components from vB.org, as well as a huge collection of custom modifications.
• Initial layout constructed of mostly CSS, and very fast loading (for the amount of images, and complexity of layout).
• Custom skin selection not based on the stock skin system (with on-the-fly colour modification by CSS and PHP).
• Member-controlled Image Rotation system (on the top left), where images are uploaded (of any size) and are converted to size and framed with the layout on-the-fly by PHP.
• A truly practical and unique PM notification popup.

You really have to login (or sign up) to get a feel of how different the site is from the stock vBulletin system.

Site Name: UKSGC (United Kingdom Steam Gaming Community)

URL: http://www.uksgc.com

Description: Community Forums and Portal for Steam Gamers

Reason for Nomination: UKSGC has been running for nearly a year now, and we have a small but growing community, with some of the very best vbulletin mods and a very clean and fresh feel, UKSGC feel that being apart of BOTM would be a very nice achievement for us as a community!

Site Name: GamersCouncil
URL: http://www.gamerscouncil.com/forums/
Description: Video gaming discussion forum. Also provides weekly news about popular topics in the gaming industry.
Reason for Nomination:

I spent hundreds of hours on making it look clean and nice. The majority of the graphics have been changed and are all custom made.

The news section uses a blog script which is linked to the forum, allowing the forum users to comment on the news in a thread that's specially made for the article. And the cheats section is basically a modified version of the skin that functions as some kind of CMS and hides some elements that make it look like a forum.

This project is like a baby to me and I spend a couple of hours on it every day. It's always fun to add a new hack and optimize it, so soon when it's active people can actually start enjoying it :)

My Vote For 1st One

www.tech555.com veenuisthebest

Very nice and wonderfull looking


keep it up veenuisthebest


regards
Ram

Second...

Site name: Capper's Lobby

Site URL: 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. ;)

Site name: Sinister - Gaming

Site URL: http://www.afraidyet.net and http://www.afraidyet.net/forums/

Description: Sinister has been a long time guild in the mmo scene and our website has expanded over the past 10 years accordingly. We cover all aspects of the mmo scene and focus mostly on video productions at this point. I've put countless hours of work into this site with the help of vbulletin and many great modifications that I've used and edited for my own needs. Thanks to all the contributers out there, you have saved us so much time.

Reason for Nomination: I see alot of great site designs, but not much gaming related especially when it comes to the mmo genre. Our site has grown A LOT over the past few months. Transfering close to 400 gb in bw now a month with 9.3 million unique visitors since we started this new design effort a year ago. We used phpbb for a few years and after getting hacked due an unpatched vulnerability I decided it was time to make the switch to vbulletin and haven't looked back since.

Thanks for consideration. :cool:

I second this one ! Great job, very nice and elegant layout ! Love it !

I definately second this site - Its nice and clean and structured really well.
ALSO - the facebook style is AMAZING!!! :D