It's time for The Best of /r/aww 2016!

Redditors of /r/aww, it's that time again. 2016 may not have been the greatest year in the real world, but here on /r/aww, we saw some quality submissions and now it's time to make sure those users' efforts get rewarded.

Rewarded how, you say? How about TWO, yes, TWO GOLD CREDDITS for the winner in each of our five categories? The first and second runners-up will receive one gold Creddit each.

The categories are as follows:

• Overall Best Submission (Define "best" however you wish.)

• Best Cat Submission

• Best Dog Submission

• Best Human Submission

• Best Submission of Any Other Animal (This includes but is not limited to birds, rabbits, birds, snakes, birds, turtles, birds...did I mention birds?)

All you must do is nominate and vote on them. To nominate, post both the link to the thread and a link to the direct image. All replies must be a nomination. All outside comments/discussions must be as a reply to the Discussion comment.

For example, format it like this.

http://ift.tt/1ZnWDkg

http://ift.tt/1QWhtUW

Rules

• Please only nominate a submission once per category. If you see the one you wanted to add please upvote it (this is how you vote on each category). At the end we will check all the vote numbers to determine the winner in each category.

• If a submission contains two animals of different species, you may nominate it in both of those categories. (A movie can be nominated in more than one Oscar category, can't it?)

• The thread will be in contest mode. This means that all comments will be sorted randomly and no scores will be displayed.

• You may only nominate submissions made in 2016.

• You can nominate anyone but yourself

• Every nomination must follow our current rules. Meaning if it's a thread we've removed, or one that we would remove but somehow missed, it will be disqualified.

• All top-level comments will be removed. Post any discussion as a reply to the mod approved Discussion comment.

This thread will be in contest mode, so nobody will know who is winning until we announce it. We will also be removing any parent comments apart from the categories.

Happy voting and happy new year!

" target="_blank">

Submitted December 27, 2016 at 11:50PM by broadwayguru http://ift.tt/2i62Bcj