Supconnect Awards Kicks Off w/ Sup Groms

The 2nd Annual Supconnect Awards kicks off with the search for Sup Grom of the Year 2011, with stand up paddle nominations spanning across the globe, from Hawaii to Europe and beyond. Vote for your Sup Grom.

Some of the rising stars of stand up paddle boarding featured above, including Kristi Page (AUS) and Slater Trout (HI).

Vote for your Sup Grom of the Year 2011.

SAN DIEGO, California – The winners of last year’s Supconnect Awards set the bar incredibly high for this year’s stand up paddle candidates. Among the winners were names like Candice Appleby, Chuck Patterson, and the all-star sup couple Dan Gavere and Nikki Gregg. Purely selected through a democratic process, the nominees and winners were chosen marginally based on performance but heavily on community involvement and ambassadorship. Now this year’s nominees promise to deliver yet another exceptional lineup of winners, who will earn the prestige of entering stand up paddle board history. The Supconnect Awards was the first awarding venue for stand up paddling, considering athletes globally and heavily relying on audience feedback. The process has become an excellent gauge for companies considering athlete sponsorship.

“Based on the audience involvement plus the enormous amount of feedback that last year’s winners received, I believe this year’s Supconnect Awards promises to be all the more prestigious, as well as competitive,” said Andre Niemeyer, president of Supconnect. “During the nomination and selection process in the 1st Annual Supconnect Awards, we saw some very proactive candidates rallying support for their nomination while also constantly contacting us with updates and contents. For many of them, their efforts paid off and they became frontrunners and in some cases winners. This year the pool of talent is equally impressive and even larger, which makes for steeper competition and an exciting selection process. We encourage everyone to get involved and throw their support behind their favorite candidate, for after all the community has the final say on who will walk away with the Supconnect Award.”

The Supconnect Awards process has two steps: nomination and selection. Nominations for the Supconnect Awards are open to the public. If you have someone whom you think has what it takes and deserves a shot at earning the Supconnect Awards, we encourage you to submit his or her nomination via the Sup Grom Group on Supconnect. The nomination is simple. Join the group and create a photo album with some pictures of your nominee and under the album’s description insert a one paragraph biographical note. If you need any help during this nomination process, feel free to contact Courtney@supconnect.com or call 858.366.4407.

The second step of the Supconnect Awards is the selection. Candidates are chosen purely via a democratic process. Votes are counted from the number of Facebook Likes and Comments the candidate receives, plus also the number of Tweets and posts on the wall of the Sup Grom Group on Supconnect. To express your support for your favorite grom, simply find his or her nomination on the Supconnect Awards Sup Grom Page and click Like and/or Tweet. You can also click on the nomination post and leave your comment telling us specifics of why you think he or she should be the winner. Now for those who are neither on Facebook nor on Twitter, you can join the Sup Grom Group on Supconnect and leave a post on the group’s wall. The Supconnect Awards does not have a purely up and down vote, for we encourage the audience to give us the reasons why a particular candidate is deserving of the prize. The polls for Sup Grom of the Year 2011 are open, so go ahead, throw your support behind your candidate, and begin campaigning for him or her to walk away with the prize.

About Supconnect Awards

The Supconect Awards, which is now in its second annual, was the first of its kind for the sport of stand up paddle boarding. Drawing on the popularity of Supconnect as the #1 ranked sup website in the world, as well as having the fastest growing social media platform among stand up paddle media, the Supconnect Awards places the sup athletes on a global stage and offers them the opportunity to gauge their popularity in front of a world audience. That gives the sup athletes an objective tool to assess their sponsorship value while also giving them resources to further advance their careers.

How are you planning on helping your favorite Sup Grom to win?

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