Bonsai Person of the year (2009) - Results

Voting ends at midnight (UK time) on 4th January 2010.

If you have not already cast your votes, please do so soonest. You can find the polls on the Off-Topic Banter forum.

Remember you can vote in all 3 categories if you want.

Please also note that you need to use the official Poll facility to cast your vote. Those previously intimated on another thread will not count.

Results due on Wednesday 6th. Good luck to all nominees - some of the voting is close.

results of the recent poll are as follows:


Winner of Bonsai Person of the Year (2009) North & South America: William Valavanis

Winner of Bonsai Person of the Year (2009) Europe and Africa: Tony Tickle

Winner of Bonsai Person of the Year (2009) Globally: William Valavanis


Well done to the winners.

Well done and well deserved!!!

Nice job Fiona...and keep up the good work Tony and Bill...and Bill...

Pat

Thank you, Pat. I'm sure the winners would agree that whatever our offering to the bonsai community - humble or huge -we're doing it because we love our hobby and not for the thanks and back-patting. But it is nice to be recognised for a contribution every so often so I reiterate your well done to them.

For the record and in in response to an enquiry, Voting ended at 12 midnight (UK time) as always stated on Monday 4th January and I duly locked the posts at 1.15am on Tuesday 5th.

A couple of people had asked me informally why there was to be a day's wait for the outcome. So as the voting had already ceased and I had no need to spend hours collating results (marvels of technology) I felt there was no real need to keep pepole in suspense and just went ahead and produced the results today - at 1.20am on Tuesday 5th.

Again, I have Alain K's words in my mind that we're all good guys on here, so let's all pat ourselves on the back in however humble or huge a way we think appropriate. On with 2010 then.

A big hug to the winners.

I was surprised though to see my own name on the list. Thanks for beeing nominated among these fine people, who have deserved their credit well.
Look forward to a new year of growth (short growth though - shohin you know )

Good work Fiona

Best regards
Morten

Gid job done Fiona ,and congratulations to all the winners
what I find hard to believe is that the likes of Danny Use, Kevin Wilson,
Marco Invernizzi to name but a few were,nt in the running
" nowt as strange as folks eh!"

Alex e

You should have nominated them then Alex.

Thanks again for a tremendous job Fiona. Initiaitives like this are what keep everyone interested and the hobby fresh.

Wow... that's a nice surprise to start 2010.... thanks to all you guys who voted for me... congrats to Bill, and Kev and Lindsay... esteem company indeed... are there any perks when you win?

Thanks for organising this Fiona.



Tony

Tony wrote: ...are there any perks when you win?

Yes. Apparently your parting gets to change side on your head.

Tony wrote:Thanks for organising this Fiona.

Guys, it's nice to be thanked but I think we're all forgetting this was Dorothy's idea not mine. So thanks due to Dorothy for coming up with it as much as (if not more than) to me for pushing a few buttons about on a screen.

I would like to thank Tony for his humour, his "tong-in-cheekness" (sorry, my native language is not English, and I don't think there's a word for "second degré").

I'm really glad he's the one that was elected, all the more than I don't take part in these kinds of beauty pageants.

Medals, drums rolling while people are marching to the sound of music: not my cup of tea, sorry.

I'm just sorry that I could not stick around for the Party after the Awards were handed out



Tony