It's time to continue on with the voting for the first annual 'Matty Awards' - or more affectionately known as 'The Matty's.'

Three more categories will be voted on for the next two days.  They are:

The Garo Yepremian Funny Like a Clown Award - given to the funniest blogger.

The Jake Long Rookie Blogger of the Year Award - given to the best rookie blogger at the site. Cutoff date for rookies is Week 1 of the season, everybody who joined after that is eligible.

The Chad Pennington Crossing Enemy Lines Award - given to the most knowledgeable and personable opposing blogger.

The nominees and ballots can be found after the jump.  Click the "continue reading" link below.  Voting for these 3 awards will close on Wednesday at 11:30 pm eastern.  Happy voting and good luck to the nominees...

(And remember - there's no campaigning within 100 feet of the polls)

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As I'm sure you've seen, over the past few weeks, we've been nominating some of our community members for our first annual 'Matty Awards' - or, more affectionately known, 'The Matty's."  We've completed the nominations and now it's time to get to the voting.

First up are three awards.  Each are described below:

The Mercury Morris Front-page Frontrunner Award - given to the blogger with the most and/or best front-paged fanposts. Bonus points for rec's.

The Channing Crowder Lost In Translation Award - given to the blogger who has best overcome the language barrier between their first language and the English language.

The Matt Roth Award - given to the most passionate/borderline psychotic blogger.

The nominees and voting tool can be found after the jump (so as to not clog up the front page too much).  Voting for these 3 awards closes on Monday at 11:30 pm eastern.  Happy voting and good luck to the nominees...

Note: There is no "campaigning within 100 feet of the polls (aka - anywhere on this website).

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