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HarpoonPages invites you to vote for the 2006 Pooner and Lifetime Pooner.

The big news is that this is the 10th Anniversary of the first Pooner vote (Tom Wenck won back in 1996 for his pfedit program). Thanks to yours truly, Don Gilman, Larry Bond, Chris Carlson, and Brad Leyte (Pooner 2005) the award this year includes adoration & thanks of the Harpoon community and more.

The 2006 Pooner will receive a first edition hard cover copy of Red Storm Rising, in Very Good condition (if not fine but I'm no book dealer) signed not only by Tom Clancy, but Larry Bond as well!

The 2006 Lifetime Pooner will receive a copy of Dangerous Ground signed by Larry Bond and Chris Carlson!

To vote and view the past winners, visit http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php

If you have any difficulties voting, please send an e-mail to pooner@harpoonpages.com with your name, e-mail address, and your vote for Pooner and Lifetime Pooner and I will enter them manually.

Please post this message on any forum/list/newsgroup where Harpoon players reside so that we can bring in as many votes and cudos as possible to those who sustain Harpoon.

It has been mainly a Harpoon 3 kind of year, both of my choices for 2006 Pooner awards exert much of their effort (but not all) on the H3 side of the fence.

For 2006 Pooner I chose Jan-Paul Köster. His support work, bug verification and ranking, and his work on the AGSI wiki bring him my vote.

For Lifetime Pooner I chose Darrel Dearing. He has programmed the Harpoon games off and on for a very long time, efficiently, with skill, and with an ability to sideskirt the nasty public confrontations some of the rest of us just cannot always let pass. In my opinion he has supported the game in the spirit of a lifetime Pooner.

We've got enough votes to end up with a valid election but still more are encouraged, only a small fraction of the Harpoon community has spoken out and given praise to those keeping Harpoon alive. If you haven't please come vote, we're half-way thru time-wise for this year with the voting ending December 31st.

Head to http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php and vote.

If you have any difficulty, contact me at pooner@harpoonpages.com

Three more days of voting, it is now or never and your last reminder as well. Head on over to http://www.harpoonpages.com/poonervote/pooner-Intro.php, place your vote, then talk up your choices back here. As always, if you have trouble voting, contact me at pooner@harpoonpages.com and we'll get your vote entered manually if need be. Thanks for voting!

Congratulations to the 2006 Pooner Jan-Paul Köster and Lifetime Pooner Darrel Dearing!
Thank you to everyone who voted.


Results (% of votes):
35% JPK
23% Dale Hillier
15% Freek Schepers
11% Dimitris Dranidis aka Sunburn
11% Herman Hum


Results (% of votes):
35% Darrel Dearing
23% Herman Hum
19% Dimitris Dranidis aka Sunburn
11% Darren Buckley

The Clancy and Bond signed RSR will go out to JPK when he returns from holiday. See images of the gem at:
RSR Image 1
RSR Image 2
RSR Image 3

The Bond and Carlson signed Dangerous Ground will go out to Darrel asap.

Thanks again to Larry Bond for his signature and Dangerous Ground, and to Brad Leyte for sharing the initial cost of RSR and shipping these books all over creation!